Bachelor in Economics (University of Ljubljana). More than 20 years’ experience in motorway development, operation and financing. She is responsible for international relations, multilateral cooperation and EU funding at DARS d.d., Slovenian Motorway Company. Currently in charge of strategic planning, motorway development, as well as for preparation and monitoring of projects supported by different EU institutions. She has participated in several European and cross-border projects and platforms. She is actively involved in the operation of different international road associations, like for example in ASECAP as a Chair of the Permanent Committee for Data Gathering and Analysis/Statistics.
After gaining a diploma in legal studies from Oxford University, Alessandra specialised in competition law, obtaining an LLM from the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas. At the same time, she completed her legal training with a master’s degree in political science (Sciences-Po Paris) and a master’s degree in Political Economy of Europe (London School of Economics).
Before joining ASFA as Director of Legal and International Affairs in 2021, she worked for several British law firms and for the French Transmission System Operator (Réseau de Trasport d'Electricité - RTE).
Alexander Paier (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the Vienna University of Technology (Institute of Telecommunications), Austria, in 2010. His Ph.D. thesis “The Vehicular Radio Channel in the 5 GHz Band” received the ITS Scientific Award at the 19th ITS World Congress 2012 in Vienna. He is the author of several book contributions and numerous published articles.
From 2011 to 2023 he was employed at Kapsch TrafficCom AG as C-ITS expert for system/solution design, technical project management, specification, and standardization of C-ITS systems. During this time, he was responsible for C-ITS deployment projects from Canada via Europa to Australia. Since 2023 he is with ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH, Vienna, Austria, as expert in the field of C-ITS and radio- and frequency-management. Further he is member of ASECAP since 2023, where he is part of the COPER III team.
Civil Engineer from NOVA University Lisbon and Master of Transport Planning and Operations from Técnico Lisbon. Traffic and mobility consultant since 2008, with experience with local, regional and national traffic studies, regional plans and European studies on the mobility sector, including dynamic tolling experiences. Senior Member and part of the Pool of Experts from the Portuguese Engineers Association. Currently at Brisa Group working at the Department of Studies and Advanced Analytics since 2022.
Benoît is in charge of developing the business activities of emovis, the toll road mobility arm of the Abertis concession group. Prior to joining Abertis, Benoît spent over 15 years developing Public Private Partnerships in Asia Pacific and in the U.S. working both in the public and private sectors.
Bill M. Halkias PE, F.ASCE, F.ITE, is Advisor to the Management of the Attiki Odos (Attica Tollway) Operation and Maintenance Company (Attikes Diadromes S.A.), having served the company as its Managing Director and CEO since its inception in 1999 and until 2022. Bill serves as the IBTTA 2024 President. His career spans over 40 years of professional activities in the field of transportation engineering, the first 15 of which in the US and the remaining in Europe. He has served as the first President of the Hellenic Association of Toll Road Network, with the distinctive title “HELLASTRON”. He has also served as President of the Association of European Toll Motorways «Association Européenne des Concessionnaires d’Autoroutes et d’ouvrages à Péage» (ASECAP) based in Brussels, Belgium, as well as President of the “International Road Federation” (IRF) based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also served as a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Freeway Operations Committee of the American Academy of Sciences and President of the Hellenic Institute of Transportation and Engineers (H.ITE). He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Greece and in eight US states. Bill Halkias is a graduate of the Rural and Surveying Engineering School of the National Technical University of Athens (1981) and holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in US (1984).
Bruno de la Fuente is Bachelor of Business Science by the UCM and MBA by IE Business School.
In 1999 he joined ASETA (Spanish Association of Concessionaires Companies Highways, Tunnels, Bridges and Toll Road) and in 2011 he was appointed General Manager. In 2014 he joined SEOPAN (Association of Infrastructure Contractors and Concessionaires) where he was had different positions.
Currently he is Director of Concession, Economy and Studies of this association.
Christian Guarini is an IT Project Manager at Autostrade per l'Italia.
He received his Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from University of Salerno and carried out his thesis research at UPC in Barcelona (Spain), where he focused on optimizing Subgraph Isomorphism algorithms through parallel computing, leveraging the power of GPUs and multicore architectures.
After graduating, he worked in the R&D department at the University of Salerno in collaboration with RFI S.p.A. (FS Group), designing and developing safety-critical applications to ensure the autonomous control and operation of high-speed trains.
In Autostrade per l'Italia Christian focuses on enhancing business processes by integrating cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence. One of his key projects involved designing and managing the development of a Virtual Agent for automatic toll lanes, assisting users in resolving payment issues.
Christophe Boutin graduated as an engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts-et-chaussées. He started his career as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He joined the highway sector in 2004, first at Société des Autoroutes Paris Normandie (SAPN), as director of construction and sustainable development and then in charge of the concession contracts at Sanef.
In 2011, he joined ASFA, the professional highway association in France, as deputy to the managing director before being appointed managing director in 2017.
He served as President of ASECAP, the European Association of Operators of Toll Road Infrastructures, in 2020. He serves as International Vice-President of IBTTA since 2023, Chair of the EETS Facilitation Platform, a contact point to facilitate the development of electronic tolling in Europe, set-up under supervision of the European Commission.
Currently works at REBLOC Concrete Barriers, managing the sales of vehicle restraint systems in several European countries, including Spain and Portugal. Before joining REBLOC a year ago, he spent over six years specializing in vehicle restraint systems as part of a company focused on temporary traffic safety solutions for highway construction sites in Austria. This hands-on experience heightened his awareness of the critical importance of effective safety systems—not only for the protection of vehicle occupants but also for the safety of those who work on the roads at night, when construction and maintenance activities typically take place.
In his current role in international sales, he has the opportunity to promote the vital message of traffic safety to a wider audience. At REBLOC, he is part of a dedicated team that constantly strives to develop innovative precast concrete solutions to enhance road safety worldwide.
Claudia Eder studied economics in Linz and completed her Master of Business Administration (Global Executive MBA) at the WU Vienna and Carlson School of Management (University of Minnesota) in 2019. After a management trainee program at Thalia Buch & Medien, her career in the transportation industry began at Daimler in Singapore in 2007. Afterwards she moved to Vienna and was hired by the Austrian railways ÖBB in 2002. There, she served in several management positions at various organisations and became the Managing Director of the ÖBB-Business Competence Center GmbH in 2014. She also worked as a freelance business consultant in the framework of transformation and digitisation projects in the public and private sectors. In September 2021 Claudia Eder was appointed as Managing Director of ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH, where she is responsible in the fields of toll collection, enforcement and commercial matters.
David Buggiani joined Movyon, a company of Autostrade per l’Italia Group, in late 2011 as a Technical Analyst/Software Developer working at Ecotaxe Project, leveraging on his previous experiences in software developing and IT systems gathered during the University and his previous job as developer at Reply. In 2015 he works as Technical team Leader for a Project related to an average speed enforcement system. In 2017 he collaborates as Design authority in a project that aims to produce a EETS platform and since 2020 he works as Head of Infrastructure Management, coordinating the team that, in Movyon, is responsible for all the solutions related to the management of infrastructures (Bridges, Tunnels, Pavement, etc).
Having graduated from Federal Higher Technical Institute for Electrical Engineering in Wiener Neustadt, David Kollenhofer studied Power Electronics at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna from 2001 to 2004. Since 2004 he works with ASFINAG in different positions while he simultaneously completed his MBA in General Management at the Californian Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks from 2014 to 2015.
ASFINAG is the Austrian highway operator compromising a 2.200 km long highway and expressway network and is responsible for the planning, construction, financing, operation, maintenance and tolling of motorways and expressways in Austria. Since the beginning of his activities, David Kollenhofer works in the field of electronic tolling, focusing on bi- and multilateral interoperability projects. Until the end of 2016, he successfully supported the progress of the European Electronic Toll Service due to his activities in the European funded REETS Project.
From 2017 to 2023 David Kollenhofer assisted the head of the department of operation and maintenance at ASFINAG Service GmbH, responsible for handling the operation of the motorways and expressways with more than 1000 employees. One part of his responsibility was the implementation of organisational change as well as the new management concept of rest areas at ASFINAGs network. Since 2023 David Kollenhofer is responsible for the Technical Operation Management and is leading a team of experts supporting ASFINAG O&M staff in their operational tasks due to digitalisation, procurement and training measures.
A graduate of the Democritus University of Thrace with a degree in Civil Engineering, he worked for several years as a civil engineer for large technical companies in traffic/transportation management. He also served at the Municipality of Amarousion, first on the design and operation team, then as General Director of the Transport System.A graduate of the Democritus University of Thrace with a degree in Civil Engineering, he worked for several years as a civil engineer for large technical companies in traffic/transportation management. He also served at the Municipality of Amarousion, first on the design and operation team, then as General Director of the Transport System.From 2003 to August 2016, worked for Attikes Diadromes (the Operation Company of Attiki Odos, the Ring Road of Athens), organizing all administrative functions. Later, he moved to the Strategic and Organizational Manager position.Since 2016, he has held the position of Chief Operations Officer (COO) in Aegean Motorway SA, a 230km Tollway in Central Greece, where he heads all tolling, maintenance, and operation activities of the company.He is also a member of the Board of Hellastron (Hellenic Association of Toll Road Network).Mr. Mandalozis served as an IRF board member for several years before being appointed IRF President in 2024.He is an IEMA-certified climate change leader (Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment) and a member of several international working groups in IBTTA (International Bridge Tunnel & Turnpike Association), European Commission - Mobility & Transport - Cooperative, and Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM).
Edoardo Ciorra is an Operations Project Engineer & Business Data Scientist within the Business Unit Operations (BUOP) @ Autostrade per l’Italia with experience in ICT and Data Science projects, Transportation, and Smart/Sustainable Mobility.
His work is focused on managing Business/IT Projects on Data Science and Data Analytics Integrated Systems for Mobility Management, Smart Mobility, and Preventive Safety.
With a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from NOVA University of Lisbon, started my professional career in consultancy, working on projects to create value for operations through continuous improvement. Currently working in Brisa's Special Projects team, managing not only strategic projects, but also supporting innovation.
Emanuela Stocchi is an expert in EU legislation and policies and she is the Director of International Affairs for AISCAT (Associazione Italiana Società Concessionarie Autostrade e Trafori), the Italian Association of Toll Highways Concessionaires Companies. In this role she ensures the Association’s contacts with the EU Institutions and other European and International organizations active in the transportation field. She fluently speaks Italian, French, English and Spanish. Emanuela has an outstanding International background: she holds a degree in Political Science with a specialization in EU law and policies and she has worked in Brussels for eight years with ASECAP, the European Association of Toll Highways Concessionaires Companies, gaining a solid and comprehensive knowledge of all the EU Institutional and public affairs and expanding at the same time her EU and International network in the transportation area. Emanuela is still very active within ASECAP, being Deputy Member of the ASECAP Executive Committee and Chair of the ASECAP Permanent Committee of Road Safety, Environment and Sustainability. She is very involved also in PIARC (World Road Association), being member of the PIARC Executive Committee, Chair of the PGIDT (Promotion of Gender Diversity and Inclusion Team) and French-speaking Secretary of the CTERM Terminology Committee. Emanuela served as well IBTTA (International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association - the worldwide alliance of toll operators and of the businesses that serve tolling) and its members through work on several committees before being appointed to the Board of Directors in 2011. Emanuela served a two-year term as International Vice President, before a three-year term as Second and then First Vice President followed President in 2017 and finally, Immediate Past President in 2018. She is currently serving in the Advisory Council of the IBTTA Past Presidents, as member of the IBTTA International Committee and Sustainability Task Force and as lifetime member of the IBTTA WIT (Women in Tolling).
Fabio Maria Colasanti is a Road Engineer at Autostrade per l’Italia. He holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and a master's degree in Road and Transport Engineering.
His career has been primarily focused on the road sector, particularly within the Operations Unit. His main activities include monitoring the pavement performance characteristics of the network using high-performance vehicles and overseeing maintenance activities.
He has also contributed to the development of the Pavement Management System, for which he serves as the Product Owner.
Currently, he is the technical referent for the laboratories of Autostrade per l’Italia, where he is responsible for managing high-performance surveys on the Italian road network and overseeing laboratory activities related to asphalt conglomerate testing.
Fabio Scartoni is the Director of the Business Department of Nivi S.p.A. that specializes in carrying out the collection of the toll offences on behalf of the most important Italian and European Motorway Concession Holders.
He holds a degree in Economics and a Master's in Credit Management which he achieved at the Watson Wyatt Worldwide (currently known as "Towers Watson"). He has two children and lives in Florence, where Nivi S.p.A. has its headquarter.
He joined Nivi S.p.A. back in 2016 after 15 years of experience made in the banking and financials' sector, when he had the chance to be employed in some of the most prominent Italian Credit Institutions. Working for Nivi allowed him to mature a profound knowledge of the operational processes and regulations that are linked to the collection of the Toll Offences and he has been in charge of several research and innovation projects throughout the years. He also has been regularly representing Nivi at the annual FENCA (Federation of European National Collection Associations) congresses.
Fabio Scartoni is the head of Nivi's Business Unit named Nivinform® too, which specializes in info Providing services on an international level.
Fabrizio Paoletti is an Electronic Engineer, involved in ITS Standardisation and Regulations and Traffic Control Centres Application development for Autostrade per l’Italia, designing and integrating IT solutions to operate Traffic Management and Traffic Information systems. Since 2003 he joined the DATEX II organisation in EU funded projects and contributes to standardisation activities as expert in CEN and ISO TC groups. He is also active in TM2.0 platform in liaison activities with DATEX II. His experience has been focused in developing Collaborative ITS Services which allows to operate seamless Traffic Management operations.
With an MBA from Porto Business School, Francisco Magalhães has a strong background in fintech, business development, and sales. Over the years, Francisco has played a key role in fostering strategic growth and driving innovative solutions in the financial technology sector.
At the beginning of 2024, Francisco joined Via Verde, where he is responsible for New Business, helping to develop new partnerships and support operators. His focus areas include interoperability, urban mobility, and electric mobility, working to expand and enhance Via Verde’s services in these critical domains. Leveraging extensive experience in business development, he actively drives partnerships and innovative mobility solutions to shape the future of transportation and digital payments.
Giovanni Megna holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (2020) and an MSc in Mobility Engineering (2023) from Politecnico di Milano. Since 2023, he has been a Smart Mobility Specialist in the R&D team at Movyon S.p.A., where he focuses on innovation projects in the fields of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS), Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM), Smart Roads, and Traffic Management.
Giuseppe Mastroviti is the Technical and Operations Director of the A35 highway. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Engineering obtained at the Polytechnic University of Turin and a Master Degree in Civil Engineering from the Ecole Nationale des pont et Chaussées in Paris. He obtained a post-graduate Master at the Polytechnic of Turin on “Investigations for a mechanized excavation at great depth".
He’s deeply involved in the Wireless Power Transfer System projects for the recharging of electric vehicles.
He is also a PIARC member as a Vice-Chairman in 2 Committees, 3.4 related to the environmental impact of road infrastructure and 3.5 which is focused on the decarbonization of road transport.
Ilaria De Biasi has been working for Autostrada del Brennero since 2004. She is presently Head of the Department for European Projects, in charge with the deployment of several projects co-funded by the European Commission within different EU programs (Connecting Europe Facilities, Horizon Europe, LIFE). The main areas of implementation of these projects are Connected and Automated Driving, Management Measures to minimize traffic impact on the Environment, ITS systems for Traffic and Freight Management.
Jaka Gorišek is an independant expert associate within Road Management Sector for slovenian highway and expressway operator DARS. In 2016, he finished studying geodesy and geoinformatics with masters degree at the University of Ljubljana. He started his career in field-surveying for telco compaines. In the last 4 years at DARS, he is active in the field of mobile mapping, road data digitalisation and GIS systems.
Julián Núñez is currently the president of the Association of Infrastructure Contractors and Concessionaires (SEOPAN), over which he has presided since 2013. He was also the president of the European Association of Operators of Toll Road Infrastructures (ASECAP) until May 2018 and, nowadays, is also the second vice president of this Association. In addition, he is Vice President and a member of the board of directors at the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE); Vice President of the National Confederation of Construction (CNC); chairman of the Commission of Concessions and Infrastructures at CEOE; council member of the Labor Foundation of Construction (FLC); a member of the Spanish Road Association (AEC) Board of Directors. Previously, he worked for ten years in Vias y Construcciones (ACS Group), five of which were spent as director of the Portuguese region and, additionally, two years within Euroresidencias Gestión. Julián is a civil engineer graduated from Madrid Polytechnic University (Promotion 1992) and an Executive MBA from Instituto Empresa (2000).
I have worked in the road infrastructure business across the globe, both as an owner and director for 45 years. Speacilising in Traffic management, Barriers, Road Markings and more recently Digital Safety and Supervision.
Author of the Highways England Transforming Roadmarking project, Chair of the ERF (European Union Road Federation) “digital workzone safety group”.
The aim of the working group is to look at current workzone safety practise and what benefits they offer the people working on or within them, how do they transition to a digital platform.
Major purpose is to identify what will this transition to digital add in terms of value, in terms of road worker safety, Carbon reduction, data, and stakeholder expearience.
In this presentation I aim to explain our progress to date and the next steps of our activities.
CEO EGNATIA ODOS S.A., Greece (Company responsible for the management of design, construction, operation and maintenance of a 657 Km highway)
Since 2019, Mr. Koutsoukos is CEO of EGNATIA ODOS SA. He has served previously at various positions at egnatia odos sa, such as Director of Exploitation and Growth, Director of operation and maintenance. Over the last 25 years Mr. Koutsoukos held various positions in the field of highway Operation & Maintenance as well as Tollway. Mr. Koutsoukos has many years of experience in Tolling issues. Part of his duties at Egnatia Odos S.A. includes the representation as a Greek representative at the European Electronic Toll Committee instituted by Directive 2004/52/EC.
Mr. Koutsoukos has served as president of the Hellenic Association of Toll Road Network (HELLASTRON) from 2021 -2023.
In addition, Mr. Koutsoukos has been involved in issues related to Tunnel safety and he participates since 2007 as an alternative member at the Greek Administrative Tunnel Authority (ATA), instituted by Directive 2004/54/EC. ATA is responsible for the operational permissions for tunnels included in Transeuropean motorways in Greece.
Mr. Koutsoukos has been involved with Tolling and ITS issues since 1989 both in the US market where his career started as a transportation engineer and later in Europe. Mr. Koutsoukos worked (1989-1996) for a governmental transportation authority in Texas, USA. Over these years he was involved with ITS applications, based on American standards for implementation in the Dallas Fort Worth area as well as issues with Electronic Fee Collection, travel demand modelling, forecasting and benefit-cost analyses.
Konstantinos Papandreou is a licensed Civil Engineer, graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, holder also of a Master’s degree in the field of Transportation (D.E.A.-Transport, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris). He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, of the Greek Transportation Engineers’ Association, where he served as a BoD member and General Secretary, as well as a member of the Board of Directors in the Hellenic Association of Toll Road Network (HELLASTRON).
Mr. Papandreou brings over 25 years of considerable experience in toll road infrastructure management. Since 2008 he has been the Chief Executive Officer of Olympia Odos Operation SA, i.e. the company that has undertaken the operation & maintenance services for the Olympia Odos Motorway Concession Scheme. In his professional career he has undertaken numerous key roles and positions in various Transportation Projects in Greece. Indicatively, he served as Traffic Planning Manager in the Motorway Project of Attiki Odos, the pioneer project on a concession basis in Greece, and later on as Traffic & Maintenance Manager in Attikes Diadromes SA, the Operation Company of Attiki Odos. In the past, he ran the Planning Department of Attiko Metro SA, whereas his background also includes consulting services in both Private Companies and State Services.
As his career extends in various major infrastructure projects, his expertise covers areas relevant to Management and Operation of Transportation Projects, Traffic management and toll collection systems, Traffic forecasts, Feasibility Studies, Risk and Contract Management. He has had a determining contribution to the successful implementation of an upgraded toll interoperability service in the entire Greek territory, by undertaking the demanding role of the coordinator among all 8 motorway concession schemes being currently in operation in Greece. These fields of interest are also reflected in a number of presentations he has made in relevant congresses where he has participated, both in Greece and abroad.
Laura Holzer studied environmental and sustainability management as well as journalism and communication sciences. After 10 years in corporate communications at a global law firm and the federal real estate company (Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft) among others, she eventually switched her focus to corporate sustainability. From 2022 to early 2024, Laura set up the climate strategy and sustainability management of one of Austria's largest non-profit housing developers. Since April 2024, she is part of ASFINAG's CSRD team, where she primarily has been responsible for the social topics as well as the chapter on water and marine resources for ASFINAG‘s first CSRD report.
Laura Piarulli Paz is a Civil Engineer from the University of Zulia (Venezuela) with an MBA in Project Management, specializing in innovation in construction materials, quality management, and environmental sustainability. She currently works as an R&D Researcher at the Agustín de Betancourt Foundation, collaborating with the R&D concrete group at Acciona Construcción, managing EU-funded research projects, leading internal research initiatives, and developing sustainable solutions for the construction industry. She has over 13 years of experience in roles such as Quality and Environmental Technician, Quality Coordinator, and Construction Administration, contributing to the execution and quality control of large infrastructure projects across Latin America (Venezuela, Panama) and Spain. Her career combines on-site quality management with materials innovation, delivering efficient and sustainable solutions to the sector.
After graduating in Civil Engineering at the at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Livia Pardi worked at the EPFL-Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (Switzerland) before joining Autostrade per l’Italia and its subsidiary Autostrade TECH.
She has mainly worked in the field of Research and Development, participating with different level of involvement and responsibility in more than 20 European and Italian funded projects related to asset management, surveillance and monitoring, risk assessment, ICT and ITS services.
She is actually working in the Direction Studies & Strategies.
She is involved in the ECTP – European Technology Platform on Construction.
She is author of more than 80 papers presented in journals and conferences.
I have always had a strong passion for cross-national dynamics. I hold a Master degree in International Trade and Finance. Ever since my studies, I have immersed myself in the dynamic world of the global retail market, taking on various important roles that have greatly enriched my professional experience. In 2022, I had the privilege of joining ETIKA Consulting Group where I am responsible for driving worldwide business development. My role primarily focuses on strategically promoting international expansion efforts and coordinating interconnected collaborations across our extensive network.
Madeleine studied natural resources management and ecological engineering as well as earth sciences. Before joining ASFINAG Madeleine worked for an auditing firm in the Sustainability Accounting and Reporting department. Her main task included the review of non-financial reports in accordance with NFRD, GRI and the EU Taxonomy Regulation and advising non-financial companies on the preparation of sustainability reports. At ASFINAG Madeleine is responsible amongst others for the cross-cutting standards ESRS 2 and the topical standards climate change, pollution, biodiversity, resource use and business conduct.
Malika SEDDI is Secretary General and CEO of ASECAP, European Association of Toll motorway Operators. She maintains contacts and relations with the European Institutions, international organizations and stakeholders. Over a toll industry career that has spanned more than 35 years, Malika SEDDI has been working in ASFA (Association of French toll motorway companies) as Director of International and European affairs. She has been active in IBTTA (International organization representing the toll operators) where she serves as Board members and as International Vice- President, ASECAP (the Association for Toll Operators in Europe), serving as chair of ASECAP’s road safety and sustainable development committee, ERTICO-ITS Europe, member of program committee, and PIARC, a member of PIARC’s road safety committee and finance Committee. She was strongly involved projects co-funded by the European Commission: communication team leader for Arc Atlantique, a seven-nation project to deploy harmonized ITS services in the European Union., MedTis project, ITS deployment on the Mediterranean corridor and EU EIP Platform (coordination of ITS Corridors),. She was involved in CESARE projects, which set up the basis of European ETC interoperability.
Manos Vrailas
M.Sc. Civil Engineering National Technical
University of Athens (1978), DIPLOME D’ETUDE
APPROFONDIES (D.E.A.) Ecole National Superieure
d’Electronique, Electrotechnique, Informatique et
Hydraulique de Toulouse “ENSEEIHT”
Since 1982, he has assumed various managerial posts in the construction of major public and private projects in Greece a nd abroad. He has assumed the position of the Construction Manager in a number of Construction projects both in Greece and abroad, the position of Project Manager for GEK SA and TERNA SA with responsibility in significant public and private Construction pr ojects of GEK TERNA Group subsidiaries and he was responsible for the Quality Assurance Certification of GEK SA. Today he holds the position of Chairman of the BoD at Nea Odos S.A. and Odos Kentrikis Elladas S.A. (Motorway Concessions Companies), while he is a Member of the Board of Directors of TERNA and a Board Member of the GEK TERNA Group subsidiaries in the fields of Construction, Motorway Concessions and Car Park Stations. He is an active member of the following Professional Bodies in Greece: Gen. Sec retary of STEAT (Association of Technical Companies of the Highest Classes), and SATE (Association Of Greek Contracting Companies) and President of the Hellenic Association of Toll Road Network (HELLASTRON).
Marco Pedrotti IT Security Manager
Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering in Computer Science (Ingegneria Elettronica indirizzo Informatico) at “Politecnico di Milano”
In 1995 joined “Unilever Italia” “Elida Gibbs” as Programmer then Analist, Project Manager, IT Manager inside the "Unilever Brand Development Application Center" organization.
In 2005 moved to Continental Italia S.p.A. as Country IT Manager & Facility Manager.
In 2009 entered Milano Serravalle – Milano Tangenziali S.p.A. as IT Manger, in 2019 became IT Security Manager
Marie-Claude is a professional civil engineer and Vice President of Versilis, a leading engineering and manufacturing company specializing in automated traffic control solutions. She has over 20 years of experience in highway safety and traffic management. She is responsible for the company's business development, client relationships, and project delivery, ensuring quality and safety in every aspect of the company’s projects across North America and Europe.
As Strategic Sales Manager Marko Frank is responsible for large scale projects in the EMENA (Europe, Middle East & North Africa) region.
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Strategic Sales Manager, Region EMENA
Career.
Marko Frank joined Kapsch TrafficCom AG in January 2020.Prior to Kapsch and over the last 19 years Marko Frank has gained substantial knowledge in the infrastructure industry in particular in the airport transaction and PPP area. As project manager or senior consultant he was part of a number of successful airport privatisation projects and led numerous airport consulting projects all over the world. As Head of Business Development he was continuously increasing the ACV Group’s footprint on a global scale which includes acquisition of new projects, entering into new partnerships and finding new cooperation synergies.Marko Frank graduated from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in 2008. His diploma thesis deals with Public Private Partnerships in the airport industry.
Massimiliano Masi received his M.Sc. in Computer Science, and his Ph.D. from the University of Florence in the field of Formal Methods. He is working in Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructures since 2007. Dr. Masi participated in large EU research projects involving 30+ organisations (public & private), and in the development of the Cybersecurity specifications for the EU Cross-Border delivery of Patient Summaries and ePrescriptions, the Austrian ELGA, and the Electronic Health Record program in South Africa, to name a few. He has been authoring international eHealth standards for IHE.net (by working on the XUA, ATNA, IUA, SeR profiles). He has been working as expert for the ENISA, for the EU commission under the CEF program, and for the Austrian Ministry of Health. Massimiliano's recent interests are in the Cybersecurity aspects of Blockchain, Enterprise Architectures, Smart Grids, and the technology supporting the establishment of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS). Dr. Masi is a Java developer.
Graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, I have worked for the french department of transport on various positions in charge of infrastructure project (in Besançon, Strasbourg and Paris) until 2015 when I joined Atlandes. In Besançon I dealt with urban politics, european funds and infrastructure development (Rhin-Rhone high speed railway line project). I moved to Strasbourg to set up for the french railways (SNCF) the Agency in charge of station renewal and enlargement for the new high speed line Paris-Strasbourg, in 2001-2002. I then came back to the Ministry, in charge of funding and planning of housing and infrastructure projects for the Alsace area. I carried General Interest procedures for the Strasbourg Great Western Bypass, combining consultation needs, environmental and technical issues. I joined the national HGV charging scheme project in 2007. I led local road network and enforcement system definition, economic appraisal studies and competitive dialog. I followed the building on the ground and revised revenue and charge forecasts for the State. I organised and participated to the first ground tests in Alsace in April 2013. In charge of contract termination when project was dropped, I joined Atlandes in 2015 when things were settled.
Atlandes is part of ASECAP and ASFA and is particularly involved in tolling innovation, C-ITS and energy (« Wattway » solar pavement testing).
Pedro Pinto has more than 23 years’ experience in the tolling industry, acting currently as General Manager for Tolls at Ascendi, a Portuguese company (concessionaire, O&M and toll operator).
Pedro has a degree in Business Administration and a post-degree in Information Management, both from Portuguese Católica University.
He is responsible for the Permanent Committee 1 – Tolls from the Portuguese Association of Concessionaires and Toll Operators (APCAP), head of COPER 1 – Tolls and concessions, the expert group for Tolls from the European Association of Concessionaires and Toll Operators (ASECAP).
Is also member of the Board of the European Facilitation Platform, a group of experts supported by the European Union where the Toll Chargers, the Service Providers and the Infrastructures Public Entities discuss and share the experience of the implementation of the interoperability of electronic tolls in Europe.
Pedro also acted several times as an expert for electronic tolls near the European Union and the EU Commission.
Experienced executive with more than 20 years’ experience in technical and business challenges regarding highway technology applications, including Business Process Automation, Electronic Toll Collection, All Electronic Tolling (AET), ITC infrastructures and Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS). Pietro holds a patent for an automatic vehicle identification system based on Machine Learning algorithms and real time video analysis.
Trusty professional capable to defining and implementing technical achievements and goals, with the ability to quickly and clearly identify salient points on which to focus that vision into an actionable plan with quantifiable milestones.
Chief Information and Digital Transformation Officer – ASTM Group CIO
Since 2020. In the framework of the renewal of the ICT infrastructures and business organization for IT services in ASTM, I have been appointed as group CIO to manage the digital transformation and setup a comprehensive suite of ICT infrastructures and services to drive the international expansion and consolidation of the Group. This role follows an historical experience in building the main central ICT infrastructures from 2004 to 2010 during the first phase of the ASTM group companies’ aggregation. In addition to that, I am in charge of driving the digital transformation process of the whole Group, to build what we call “the highway of the future”.
IT Manager – Consolidation of tolling data processing system for 10 Italian Highway operators
General project sponsor, IT Infrastructures manager. The project had the focus to create a central cluster, with high degree of redundancy and computational power, to consolidate all the different instances of the Tolling Data Processing Suite in a single environment, whose data security aspects were assured for each customer, with different application schemas sharing the same DBMS central engine, to provide a great benefit in terms of manageability of the system, coherent patching and application management, single point of sensible data storage and proper protection.
T2 Frejus Tunnel (Italy – France border) Tolling Collection System Renewal – Area Manager, project coordinator and primary customer interface. The project was focused on the complete redesign of plaza hardware, central hardware with mutual DR functionalities between the two sides of the Tunnel, lane software design and development, central software design and development, customer management software functional design, overall implementation and maintenance.
Great St. Bernard Tunnel (Switzerland – Italy border) - Tolling Collection System Renewal - Area Manager, project coordinator and primary customer interface. The project was focused on the complete redesign of plaza hardware, central hardware with mutual DR functionalities between the two sides of the Tunnel, lane software design and development, central software design and development, customer management software functional design, overall implementation and maintenance.
Lusoponte TPM Tolling Data Processing and Customer management suite renewal (Portugal) – Area Manager, project coordinator and primary customer interface. Lusoponte awarded Sinelec a complete re-engineering of the whole system (already developed and managed by the Company since 1998) with state-of-art technology. The system manages all toll data collection from lanes, provide day control operations for manual collection, automatic validation and data exchange for ETC, customer and services management for the local payment means, up to the financial reconciliation.
AET, Self Service and Manual Tolling Technology design and development – Area Manager, project coordinator and primary technical solution architect. Sinelec has developed a tolling environment comprising the hardware lanes and plaza components, focusing on industrial-ready, open devices to reduce legacy lock-in caused by previous technology providers, being anyway perfectly compatible with national interoperability requirements. The result has been a very flexible tolling platform capable to adapt to any tolling operations need, which has been deployed very effectively in all the AST/SIAS concessionaries seamlessly in short time. The overall lanes deployment has been the following:
A12: 119 lanes; A15: 39 lanes; A4: 131 lanes; A21: 86 lanes; A5 SAV: 43 lanes; A10: 111 lanes; A5 Ativa: 143 lanes; A6: 89 lanes; A33: 35 lanes; A35: 73 lanes; A58: 53 lanes.
René Moser is Managing Director of ASFINAG Commercial Services GmbH and Senior EU and International Affairs Manager at ASFINAG.
René is a member of the General Assembly and Executive Committee of ASECAP, a member of the IBTTA (International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association) Board of Directors, served as IBTTA's International Vice President from 2020 to 2022, and a member of the Executive Board of CEDR (Conference of European Directors of Roads).
René joined the Austrian motorway operator ASFINAG in 2004, headed the corporate strategy, international affairs, and innovation department for several years, and took over the management of ASFINAG Commercial Services GmbH on 1 October 2015. From 2009 to 2011 he was delegated to ASECAP and thereafter established and managed ASFINAG’s Liaison Office in Brussels.
Early in his career, René specialized in telecommunications and transport, and he was responsible for developing and managing EU funded projects in the field of intelligent transport systems. René studied Urban Technologies at University of Applied Sciences “Technikum JOANNEUM“, Kapfenberg (Austria) and completed his Master of Business Administration at Vienna University of Economics and Business and Carlson School of Management (University of Minnesota) in 2015.
Since January 2024, René has been Chairman of the Board of the Austrian Traffic Telematics Cluster ATTC.
Civil Engineer from Tecnico Lisbon, with a MBA degree from IESE Universidad de Navarra, PPP Program post-graduation from Catolica Lisbon, coursing now a PhD Program on Transport Systems on MIT Portugal/Tecnico Lisbon. 35 years of experience on Road and Rail PPP, beginning at the Public Sector, as Concessions Studies Head of Division between 1996 / 1999, at National Road Administration, Deputy Public Works Secretary of State between 2000 and 2002, and Concessions Diretor at Estradas de Portugal between 2002 and 2015, Road and Rail Concessions Management Director between 2015-2017 at Infraestruturas de Portugal, S.A. managing PPP Road, Rail and Intermodal Terminals Contracts, including building special projects as Marão Tunnel and Lisboa Regional Circular or the 25 April Bridge maintenance in Lisbon.
Is currently the Secretary-General of the Portuguese Motorway Association APCAP since 2017.
Simone Capeleto is Co-founder and CEO of ThinkQuantum Srl (startup and spin-off of University of Padua) providing quantum solutions for cyber security, such as fiber, free-space, satellite QKD platforms and high-end high-speed QRNG devices.
In the European Quantum Industry Consortium, he is member of the Governing board, lead of the Expert Group in Quantum Communications and responsible for the Italian Chapter.
Telecommunication Engineer with a PhD in Space Science & Technology, he earned experience in R&D (author of 10+ patents), Project Management and Standardization domains, thereafter he developed in Business Transformation, M&A, Strategy and General Management.
Simon Keller is Sales Manager Traffic Technology Europe at VITRONIC and is passionate about driving innovative traffic solutions. His aim is to provide integrated solutions that contribute to road safety through cutting-edge technologies and implement sustainable enforcement systems.
With a deep understanding of the challenges of modern mobility, he develops strategies to further improve safety on Europe's roads. Together with his team, he provides insights into the future of intelligent transport technologies and shows how automation and digitalisation can make road traffic more efficient and sustainable.
Thomas Reznicek is responsible for the business activities of Kapsch TrafficCom in Austria and Switzerland. After graduating from a higher technical school, Mr. Reznicek completed his academic studies in business administration at the Vienna University of Economics. He joined Kapsch as a trainee in 1995 and, from 1997, was responsible for key accounts primarily in the aviation and banking sectors. In 2007, he moved to Kapsch TrafficCom, where he still works today. Mr. Reznicek is part of the company's global strategy group for tolling technologies, represents Kapsch at the board of directors of the new Swiss tolling service provider NATRAS AG and is active since many years in various international organizations, such as the Swiss Avenir Mobilité or the Austrian Traffic Telematics Cluster.
Mr. Ulrich Zorin is Head of the development of new technologies at DARS (Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia).
By education he is a master of transport sciences, specialised in international traffic flow management and is completing his doctoral studies in the field of introduction of artificial intelligence for predictiong motorway traffic jams.
He has been very active in ITS related projects/programmes like Tempo, Easyway and Crocodile, now participates in the programs X4ITS, Atlantis, 5GSITACOR, PIARC and CEDR.
He is also lecturer on the faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture at the University of Maribor and President of the Society of Traffic Engineers of Slovenia.
In 1989 he began his career as Foreman for Verdenova SpA, Rome, monitoring road vegetation maintenance works along the A14 Bologna-Bari-Taranto highway.
In 1990 first as Site Manager, then as Technical Director and finally as Managing Director of Stil Verde Srl, Ravenna, he managed works and logistics of construction sites from the company, such as the A4 Brescia-Padova (green maintenance), the Messina-Palermo highway (landscape management), and the Milan-Genoa highway (installation of noise barriers).
In June 1996 Valerio Molinari founded "Ecogest Engineering Srl" in Ravenna, operating in the field of environmental restoration and maintenance of roadside vegetation along transportation infrastructure.
In 2016 Ecogest was turned into a joint stock company, positioning itself as a leader in the sector and working for major Italian highway concessionaires and the state network.
Over the years the company has established its position and then its leadership in the Italian market, working for the main Italian freeway concessionaires, as well as for the railway groups in charge of building the Rome-Naples, Turin-Milan and Milan-Genoa high-speed lines, and for the state network through ANAS.
In July 2018, Ecogest joined AISCAT (Italian Association of Motorway and Toll Tunnel Concessionary Companies) and IRF (International Road Federation) in 2019.
In September 2021, Valerio Molinari became a member of the Board of Directors of AISCAT.
Today Ecogest SpA operates in 9 Italian regions and is present in 3 foreign countries (Romania, France and recently Canada) with previous field experience also in Turkey and Poland.
Ecogest SpA is a key operator of the GAVIO Group, Italy's leading private operator of highway and transportation infrastructure, and the second in the world. The company's main clients include Autostrada del Brennero, Autostrada Milano Serravalle, Autovie Venete, Autovia Padana, Autostrada del Mediterraneo, Autostrada dei Parchi, and the entire Gavio network managed through ASTM SpA and SIAS SpA.
In 2020 Valerio Molinari founded the Center for Climate Change Studies, through the family holding company "Greenway Group," which monitors the consequences of climate change, with particular attention to the refluence on maintenance and the state of conservation of highway infrastructure.
Since 08/03/2023 founding partner and member of the Board of Directors of "Fondazione MAC - Audiovisual Memories of Catholicism" born from an initiative of Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, at the express wish of His Holiness Pope Francis I.
Since 06/28/2023 member of the Board of Directors of IRF - International Road Federation.
Valerio Apicella received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in energy engineering from the University of Sannio in Benevento, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. He obtained the Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2020, with a thesis on smart materials for sensing and energy harvesting applications. During his Ph.D., he spent a period at the City University of Hong Kong, where he developed sensors based on the Photo-induced Hall Effect using 2D semiconductors. Currently, he is a Research and Development Specialist in Movyon, a company of the Autostrade per l’Italia Group. His activity is focused on renewable energy sources, electrical mobility, and energy harvesting for highway applications.
Xavier Daura is an Industrial Engineer, holding a Master’s Degree in Management and Administration of Industrial Companies from Instituto Químico de Sarrià (IQS) and Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in Barcelona. His professional experience is in the fields of technology, focused particularly on product engineering and the innovation of new services. I have extensive experience managing large projects with large budgets and coordinating a sizable number of stakeholders. Over the course of the last two decades, his professional career has developed, and he is now the Head of Innovation at Abertis Autopistas, implementing innovation methodology and using agile tools to rapidly adapt to market changes. He is responsible for designing innovative products and services to improve business operations and for creating new business models to transform and prepare the company for future challenges in the mobility.
Yves Ennesser is an environmental specialist with a strong academic background in ecology and considerable experience in environmental impact studies, in particular in the context of infrastructure projects. With 36 years of work experience in 46 countries, he is familiar with the current environmental issues in both developed and developing countries. As the coordinator of activities related to climate change adaptation in the Egis Group in 2008, he was in charge of the development of GERICI, a tool and methodological approach for managing climate change impacts on road infrastructure. The GERICI approach was used as the main reference for the elaboration of three European research projects on climate change adaptation for road infrastructure: RIMAROCC (2010), ROADAPT (2014), and WATCH (2017), all projects in which Yves Ennesser actively took part.
