BSc, PhD, CChem, FRSC, EurChem, CEng, FIFireE Chairman, FPRS, February 2021 Dr. Cash is an experienced Fire, Safety and Emergency Planning professional with considerable exposure to a wide range of safety regulatory activities in the rail, aviation, oil & petrochemical, marine and military sectors. Based in the United Kingdom, Tony is a Chartered Fire Engineer accredited by the Institution of Fire Engineers and a Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers, a Chartered European Chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He’s a distinguished Member of the British Standards Institute, International President of the Rail Industry Fire Association (RIFA) and Vice-President of the London Branch of the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE). United Kingdom Expert on the European Standard CEN/TC 256/WG 1, Railway Applications (Fire Protection) working group. Been practicing fire protection engineering for over 35 years and has specialised in the fire safe design of very complicated and unusual projects in a wide range of private and public sectors.Tony has previously been the Chartered Fire Engineer at Heathrow Airport Limited and before joining Heathrow, Tony worked for Bombardier Transportation, Trenton Fire, London Underground (LU), Transport for London (TfL), the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority and Angus Fire Ltd. He earned a Bachelor of Science (BSc) Honours in Chemistry from the University of London in 1983 and earned a Doctorate in Physical Chemistry (Ph.D.) from the University of Leeds in 1987. He is a Chartered Chemist (CChem), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Chartered European Chemist (EurChem). Dr. Cash is also a Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers (FIFireE), and a Chartered Fire Engineer. Tony has been involved in fire safety engineering since 1983 and first became a Chartered Practitioner in 1987. Tony has experience of working in the UK, USA, Canada, the Far East, the British Overseas Territories, the Middle East, Scandinavia, Europe, Cyprus and South Africa. Throughout his broad & varied career, Tony has participated on a number of committees advising on new guidance documents and proposed legislation including British Standards, NFPA, ICAO, UK CAA, EASA and the Institution of Fire Engineers Special Interest Groups. In addition, he has set and marked exams for his professional bodies, the UK CAA and overseas aviation agencies on fire safety & emergency planning, human factors in engineering and the Carriage Packaging and Labelling of Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Materials. Tony regularly speaks on the subject of rail rolling stock and tunnel fire safety at international conferences. He has chaired numerous annual conferences on the Fire Protection of Rolling Stock and is looking forward to chairing the 18th annual conference back in Berlin.

Carlo Cecchi – HITACHI RAIL  Italy

Fire Safety Engineer

Structural calculation, Material and Technology Dept.

Design Engineering

31 Years of experience in Fire Safety

Involved in Fire Safety design of the following main Projects:

• Eurotunnel Heavy good carrier Vehicles (LHGVC) and Amenity coaches (LAMC)
• EMU Nsb Class 72 for Norwegian railways (NSB)
• DMU IC4 and IC2 for Danish railways (DSB)
• Metro vehicles for Italian. European, Asian and USA market
• Italian railway vehicles as ETR 500 High speed train , ETR1000 Very high speed train, High frequentation train (TAF)
• High speed Interoperable train for Holland-Belgium
• V300 Zefiro high Speed train
• Caravaggio double deck EMU’s for Italian railways
• Several metro vehicles for Italy. Middle East and U.S. market

Fire safety design expert and member of:

• UNIFE SRG fire safety topical group
• CEN/CENELC TC 256 WG1
• UNI Fire safety expert involved both on Italian and European standards
• Coordinator of UNI Fire Safety CT 50

Participating  to several national and European Research projects as TRANSFEU

I was born in Edinburgh 1962 and have always lived in Scotland. I was educated at the local Grammar School and left in 1978 when I was 16 with seven “O” levels, average qualifications at the time. I started work on the railways as a mechanical apprentice at the Craigentinny Maintenance Depot in Edinburgh in 1978. This four year apprenticeship was intensive, broad based and included college studies in Mechanical and Production Engineering to HNC level. I have worked on all aspects of Rolling Stock maintenance on the depot as a fitter, was further trained to carry out electrical work. I progressed through the supervisory grades to Senior Shift Supervisor. Through this I developed an in depth knowledge of safety critical systems. I have also had specialist training in Non-Destructive testing, and have gained an in-depth knowledge of wheels bogies and running gear. I have had 14 years experience as a Rolling Stock Inspector carrying out in-service inspection, fault diagnosis and repairs on high speed diesel and electric trains. I have an extensive knowledge of the environment that Rolling Stock has to operate and how it performs in reality at speeds in service up to 125 mph. This included understanding what makes them reliable and what can be done to still operate when parts of systems are defective or have been badly damaged or isolated. Due to time limitations, rapid decision making was necessary and it was also necessary to work within what limited resources were available in isolated locations such as tools, and materials. I have undertaken further academic education in addition to normal work through the Open University and gained a BSc (Hons) degree and Diplomas in Systems Practice, Pollution Control and Professional Management. I am also an Incorporated Engineer IEng, a member of the IET and Associate Member of the IMechE. I was the project engineer for life extension work and reliability improvements to the East Coast Inter-City 125 High Speed Train fleet. This included ; Re-painting in, complete new vehicle interiors, laminated glass, MTU engines, new cooling systems, upgraded electronic control, reliability modifications, production of enhanced component overhaul specifications for rotating machines and bogies. I am currently responsible for Assurance and Engineering Standards including the production and control of Maintenance, Quality and Policy documentation relating to the London North Eastern 225 Electric fleet and Assurance of the new Hitachi Class 800 fleet. I am an IRCA registered Lead auditor for both ISO9001 and ISO14001. I represent London North Eastern Railway on various Rail Industry forums through both the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and Rail Delivery Group (RDG). These include; fire, vehicle maintenance, pantographs, energy, wheelsets, axle bearings and standards. I am chair of the BSI RAE3/-/2 committee for Roller Bearings and Lubricants. I am passionate about the Assurance, safe design, reliability, cost effective maintenance, effective management of Engineering change, vehicle configuration and operation of trains.

Paolo Diana is a Mechanical Engineer, he graduated at the Università di Pisa in 2016. He got the Professional Master’s Program in Infrastructures and Railway Systems Engineering in 2017. He works in Trenitalia as Fire safety Engineer. He is currently involved in new projects of firefighting systems and HVAC systems on Trenitalia trains. He is member of: · CEN/CENELC TC 256 WG1 · UNI Fire Safety CT 50

Luca Bartoletti has a Master degree in Engineering and a strong technical background, gained along 20 years of experience in Field Engineering and Service roles, mainly in signalling, working for GE Transportation and Alstom, then in firefighting systems for railways application, working for AMGC-Wabtec.

In the last year is holding the role of Sales Manager for Railways market in Fir.Ex. S.r.l., Italian leader in the production of aereosol estinguishing systems, developing commercial relationships with the major players in the railways market.

Fir. Ex. is currently supplying aereosol generators for firefightening systems for the main Italian trains as Alstom’s POP (Smart Coradia) fleets, Hitachi’s Rock, Caravaggio and Blues fleets, Frecciaorssa ETR 500 & 1000, Intercity coaches, Titagarh’s veicles for Metro Catania and others.

• 54 years old
• CH and AT citiszenship
• Since 2009 with WAGNER
• Managing director of Wagner Rail in Switzerland and Germany
• More than 20 years experience in fire protection
• Representant of Switzerland in many European and international (ISO) expert committees for fire protection such as gas extinguishing Aerosol extinguishing or water mist
• Member of the Eurofeu Presidium
• PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering and Master degree in Business Administration

Andrea Cremoncini has a long experience in engineering, development and validation of safety-critical complex electronic systems. He has a Master degree in Physics and a strong technical background, implemented with a significant experience in technical roles, and then as a product and marketing manager, with companies selling high-tech components and systems for industry and research.

He is one of the founders of I.S.E. Ingegneria dei Sistemi Elettronici, nowadays one of the leading Italian producers of Fire Protection Systems for Rolling Stock, where he is appointed as Sales and Marketing Manager. ISE is part of the technical committee defined and manages the new Italian technical standard for RSFP, namely UNI 11565, partner of ARGE group, and supplier to major producers of rolling stock at global level.

ISE is a small Italian company with a leading position in the field of development of Safety-Critical Systems for Rolling Stock. The company implemented a comprehensive system approach to fire fighting on board of rolling stock, based on a redundant fail-safe modular architecture which can virtually fit any vehicle needs.

Belgium

• Business Development Manager ASR* Electronics - EIMEA
• 10+ years of experience as chemical engineer for industrial applications in printed electronics
• Master Degree in Chemictry Engineering - Bio Sciences

Contact:

• sharona.sente@henkel.com
• +32 470 925 604

Belgium

• Global Key Account Manager Rail Industry
• 25 years of experience as application engineer for industrial applications and maintenance
• Certified European Adhesive Engineer - EAE

Contact:

• dimitri.clement@henkel.com
• +32 478 666 607 

• Apprenticeship as chemical laboratory assistant at Bakelite AG, Germany
• Studies - M.Sc. degree in Bio- and Nanotechnology at the University of applied sciences South Westphalia, Germany
• Research work at the university - corrosion protection of offshore installations by coatings
• since 2014 at Bakelite GmbH in technical customer support & leading of the technical service team
• Direct technical support of phenolic resin applications in carbon products and composites & support of customer related projects
• Leading of the technical team responsible for other applications of phenolic resins such as refractories, friction, abrasives, textile nonwovens...

Jeffrey F. Kober has held various engineering and management positions in the advanced composite industry for 45 years. Mr. Kober has worked in the industrial, automotive and aerospace business segments of the composites industry. He is a 1975 graduate of the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Mr. Kober holds two United States patents specifically in the fire protection of modern rolling stock vehicles. In 1997 Mr. Kober founded Milwaukee Composites Inc. and since then has focused and specialized in the design and manufacture of advanced fire safe composite structures for global mass transportation vehicles. He is presently the President/CEO of Milwaukee Composites Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin).

Experience:

1996-2019           Project Manager, Team Manager, Key Account Manager – Orga Systems GmbH

2019 – today      Area Sales Manager – Rail Systems at FOGTEC Brandschutz GmbH

Graduate:

1995                      Degree in electrical and electronic Engineering at University of Wuppertal, Germany