Lunchtime Leadership Panel | Project & Risk Management

Catherine is an urban planner with a wealth of experience in project and risk management. Her career spans over 17 years in both the public and private sectors, and includes urban planning, planning policy, and risk management.

As a Principal Consultant at VLC, her focus lies on managing major projects and leading teams to successful project delivery. Recently, she led a group of economists and modellers in the development and detailed modelling and economic evaluation of a high-profile, planned toll road project.

Prior to her role at VLC, Catherine served as a Risk Manager at EY, and as a Transport Network Planner within TMR.

Dominik is an Associate Project Manager in WSP’s Transport, Advisory and Water business. With industry experience in the delivery and management of large-scale infrastructure projects across the UK, Europe, and Australia.

Jade is the Project Delivery Leader for Stantec’s transport business in Australia. In this national role, Jade leads the Project Management and Technical Delivery community, with a goal to deliver exceptional projects and build strong client relationships. In her day-to-day role, Jade manages a team of project management professionals that provide governance on projects to best address and manage the risk profile of the portfolio.

Jade is a Chartered Senior Transport Engineer and RPEQ, with a double degree in Engineering (Civil) and Finance.

Out of work, Jade enjoys a good book and spending time with her family.

Dave is Regional Head for Business Development at Aimsun. He is a chartered Civil Engineer of 25 years’ experience with a focus in transportation network modelling, and particularly on the meaningful and pragmatic project delivery aspects as modelling can provide.

After 17 years in the engineering and planning consultancy industry delivering projects in the UK, Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, including on secondments to public sector bodies in a number of countries, Dave joined Aimsun in 2015 to lead in developing client and business positioning aspects across the Asia-Pacific region.

He is a founder of and a Past National Chair of the AITPM’s Transport Modelling Network. In June 2022 he became the fifth person to be awarded with the Modelling World UK Conference’s Masters of Modelling – Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of his contribution to the transportation modelling discipline globally in both a professional and in a volunteer/institution sense.