SWELTRAC Team
SWELTRAC has a full-time staff of five officers and works in partnership with other Boroughs and organisations.
The Team
Andrew Darvill Chairman - SWELTRAC Executive and SWELTRAC Forum
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Assistant Director - Traffic & Transport (London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames) |
John Stone Chairman - Rail Access Group
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Head of Forward Planning & Transportation (London Borough of Wandsworth) |
Chris Calvi-Freeman Vice-Chairman - Rail Access Group
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Head of Transport (London Borough of Hounslow) |
Nick Greenwood Chairman - Sustainable Transport & Strategy Group
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Transport Planning Manager (London Borough of Merton) |
Paul Blunt Vice-Chairman - Sustainable Transport & Strategy Group
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Transport Planning Manager (London Borough of Sutton) |
Gavin French – Transport Partnerships Manager
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Gavin manages the SWELTRAC team and has worked with the partnership since October 2001. He was originally a ‘one man band’ as SWELTRAC Support Officer, but the team has grown over the years and he became manager of the partnership in October 2007. He has a strong office management background, but has also worked as a journalist as well as for Sky TV on special projects and as a Wayleave Officer in the cable industry. When not busy at work, Gavin likes to indulge himself in his life-long pastime as a fan of the BBC TV series, ‘Doctor Who’.
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Jakub Bojczuk – Senior Travel Plan Co-ordinator
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Having worked in the industry for three years, Jakub has a thorough awareness of current sustainable transport practises and social marketing and behaviour change theory. He is a University of Westminster graduate where he completed a Masters in Transport Planning and Management. He also studied Russian and English in Business in his home country of Poland.
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Nick Bailey – Travel Plan Co-ordinator
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Nick has worked with SWELTRAC as a Travel Plan Co-ordinator since November 2008. He completed a Mathematics degree in his hometown Bristol in 2007. He enjoys cycling to work in Twickenham and would recommend this to anyone wishing to keep fit and save money.
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Kevin De Leeuw – Assistant Travel Plan Co-ordinator
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Originally from New Zealand, Kevin has been working with SWELTRAC as an Assistant Travel Plan Coordinator since June 2009. Kevin has been assisting the team with the development and promotion of workplace travel plans. Kevin completed his bachelors and masters degree in Geography in 2007 and previously worked as a Transport Consultant in his home city of Auckland. Aside from Rugby and Football he enjoys running and travelling. He has also taken on responsibility for organising pub lunches and after work drinks for the SWELTRAC team and other Richmond officers.
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Richard Siepka – Transport Partnerships Support Officer.
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Richard joined the SWELTRAC Team in November 2009 taking on the challenging role of Transport Partnerships Support Officer. He started off working in Retail where he developed his customer service skills to achieve a Senior Manager position after completing his Education at High School and College level. After which he progressed his career in the Rail and Construction industry working for Amec Spie Rail (now known as Colas Rail), where he worked for 2 years as a Team Administrator and gained much knowledge and experience within the Rail industry. He then progressed further by obtaining a position within Balfour Beatty and Carillion on the joint venture East London Line Project where he worked on a success project on a 13 month contract as a Technical Administrator.
Richard is a big Football fan supporting Crystal Palace and can be seen there on most home matches. He also tries to get to as many England home matches as he can. After studying at The John Fisher School in Purley (a predominantly Rugby playing School), he is now a keen Rugby follower, following London Swaps and England.
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