Dr Glen Koorey joined ViaStrada in a full time capacity in April 2016, having spent the previous 12 years with the University of Canterbury, and prior to that with Opus International Consultants. Glen’s wide-ranging experience includes considerable research and consulting work on road safety modelling, pedestrian/cycle planning & design, speed management, crash analysis, and the design and operation of rural two-lane highways. He was a member of the 2014 Cycle Safety Panel and previously investigated cycling fatalities in NZ since 2006.

Bill Frith has tertiary qualifications in Mathematics, Statistics and Transport Engineering and has spoken and written widely on road safety. Bill joined Opus Research in 2007 after a long career in the Government Transport Sector. His final Government role was Manager, Research and Statistics at the Ministry of Transport. Since joining Opus Bill has worked in a variety of areas including road lighting, speed management, older road user safety, motorcycle safety and TTM.

Michael Holderness Technical Services Manager Safety and Graphics Business 3M New Zealand Ltd

David Brown has an honours degree in civil engineering but you would not get him to design a bridge you wanted to walk over safely. His passion is in traffic engineering and transport planning, which is all about what we need and how we use our transport systems, not how we build them. David soon became involved in researching, writing and commenting on issues through all avenues of the media. He has developed policy, produced technical reports, written speeches, produced videos, produced newsletters, worked with social media, presented technical papers and made after dinner speeches. He has also run small, medium and large businesses and was mentored in the skills of corporate planning. Along with his skills in communication this has led to work in facilitating businesses, community meetings, conferences and planning processes. He was once asked to participate in a think tank on the Future of Transport “not just because of your expertise but because of your ability to think broadly and inspire others to explore together what is plausible, preferred and what needs to be changed in order to get there”. His hobby is now motoring and transport writing and broadcasting. He test drives a different new car each week but his ultimate measure of a car is dependent on his teenager who has helped develop the "Hayden Brown - Will you drive me to school in that car?” factor.

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