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Mike Garratt - Acting Chairman
Mike Garratt has a first degree in Economics and a masters degree in Transport Design. He worked intially as a local government transport planner, and, subsequently, as a researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Leicester and Liverpool. He then founded the consultancy, MDS Transmodal, which has now been trading since 1983. He specialises in short-sea shipping, ports and rail freight. He has conducted numerous studies for government, local authories and the private sector. He is regarded as one of the most informed observers of the rail, shipping and ports industries in the UK.
John Dodwell - Director and Secretary
John Dodwell, FCA (63), is chairman of the Commercial Boat Operators Association, the trade association for inland and estuarial waterways, barge operators and consultants. He was general secretary of the Inland Waterways Association in the early 1970s and was a non-executive director of Carisbrooke Shipping in the 1990s. After a time in corporate finance, in 1999 he formed Rolandon Water and Sea Freight Advisory Services to advise companies on using short-sea, coastal and inland water freight with a special emphasis on obtaining freight facility grants from the Government.
David Whitehead - Board Member
Gerald Heward - Board Member
Prior to obtaining his MBA from Henley Management College, Gerry worked for a barge operator carrying aggregates, steel, bauxite and general cargoes in Southeast England. In 1997, he co-founded Wood, Hall & Heward, a small, London-based marine engineering and barge operating company providing specialist floating plant and equipment to the construction industry. His current career portfolio combines commercial business with consultancy and management training. His consultancy assignments tend to specialise in the marine industry, particularly the implementation of transport services on inland waterways and rivers. Gerry is also a Visiting Executive Fellow at Henley Business School.
Tim Lowry - Board Member
Tim has extensive hands-on experience in shipping and related industries over 34 years as chief executive of companies in Australia, Holland, Hong Kong, South Africa and the UK. He has specialist expertise in shipping bulk and project cargoes and financing shipping companies. He is responsible for Fourwinds Holdings Ltd, including group subsidiary Coastal Bulk Shipping Ltd, owning and operating 12 British Flag cargo ships carrying grain, fertilizers, coal, steel and other bulk cargoes around Northwest Europe.
James Trimmer - Board Member
James Trimmer is the Head of Planning and Partnerships for the Port of London Authority and is the officer directly responsible for the initiation, co-ordination and implementation of the PLA’s land-use planning and transport policies and the fostering of strategic and local partnerships involving the PLA throughout the tidal Thames. James is a Chartered Surveyor and Chartered Town Planner and has been at the PLA for nine years. Previously, he worked for a number of planning consultancies, principally advising the port sector, and also within local government.
Simon Salem - Board Member
Simon is Marketing Director at British Waterways. His remit there includes promotion, public affairs, and media relations. He is responsible for promoting the utilisation of inland waterway freight with a particular emphasis on persuading policymakers to take a positive stance toward water transportation.
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Francis Power - Executive Director
francis.power@seaandwater.org
Francis started in maritime facilities development in 1992 as a planning consultant to the RYA (Royal Yachting Association). During his ten year tenure he co-authored Recreation on the Living Coast. He was also architect of the Millennium Harbours Project and produced the Facilities Strategy for Sailing.
From 2002, as the Environment Agency’s navigation policy manager, he produced Your Rivers for Life - the navigation policy which secured funding for a large maintenance backlog in navigation infrastructure.
Francis became Executive Director in 2007, restructuring the organisation and overseeing production of the March 2008 report A Vision for UK Freight Trends Towards 2018 and Beyond.
Francis is married and lives in London. He divides his professional life between Sea and Water and being a professional yacht skipper.
Yariella Coello - Press and Research Officer
yariella.coello@seaandwater.org
Yariella has an MSc in Urbanisation and Development from the London School of Economics and a BA from Northwestern University. She has worked as a researcher for The Field Museum and the Institute of Policy Research in Chicago. Yariella also has experience in the not-for-profit sector. She was an active member of Project S.O.A.R., a youth mentoring programme in Illinois, where she was responsible for programme development, fundraising and mentoring. She is also experienced in GIS. Yariella joined Sea and Water in January 2008.
Sam Webber - Press and Research Officer
sam.webber@seaandwater.org
Sam has a degree in Politics from the University of East Anglia, where he also contributed to the university newspaper. Prior to taking up his studies, he was a parliamentary intern for Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes. He has also worked for Educational Cultural Exchanges and in 2003, he worked part-time as an administrative assistant in the Prince of Wales’s office. He has also worked as a freelance journalist. Sam joined Sea and Water in February 2008.
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