Canterbury/East Kent Development Plans 2015

THREE of Canterbury/East Kent’s Leading Development Figures will be presenting their development/investment plans for the next couple of years!

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Event Format

• 1530 – 1600; Registration
• 1600 – 1645; Networking with Wine, Beer and Soft Drinks
• 1645 – 1815; Speaker Presentations
• 1815 – 1900; Networking with Hot Food, Wine, Beer and Soft Drinks
• 1930 – 2200; After Event Dinner (INVITE ONLY)

Speakers

Paul Barber; Managing Director, Discovery Park

Paul Barber is the Managing Director of Discovery Park, Europe’s largest science-based business park located in Sandwich, Kent. Formerly the European R&D HQ of Pfizer (which still has a significant presence at the park) Discovery Park is now home to over 100 companies across a wide range of industry sectors.

The Park is about to move into an exciting development phase.

Paul’s background started in the public sector, including being a founding Director of English Partnerships. Since 2006 he has worked with the Wynyard Park group of companies, focussing on regeneration projects.

Nigel Bodell; Head of Port Development, Port of Dover

Nigel Bodell is Head of Port Development at the Port of Dover. The Port of Dover is Europe’s busiest and most commercially successful ferry port. Acknowledged by UK Government as the best practice example of port master planning, the port is a critical and regulated part of UK national infrastructure facilitating in excess of 13 million passengers, nearly 5 million vehicles, and approximately 20,000 shipping movements per annum all contributing a significant proportion of UK GDP – circa £89 billion/annum.

Nigel has over thirty years experience of planning and delivering development works in the port environment. With high-level client interface across a large project portfolio, currently leading a development team who specialise in planning and delivering a mix of marine, civil engineering and building projects within an extremely busy operational port.

Has played a key role in the 30 year master plan for the Port of Dover and is the Programme Manager for Dover Western Docks Revival. Nigel is currently engaged on a consultancy commission in Taiwan to guide the major future development of three ports managed by Taiwan International Ports Corporation Ltd (TIPC).

Is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Member of the Association for Project Management and a Registered Member of the Association for Project Safety. Nigel is a co-opted committee member representing maritime interests on PIANC UK. PIANC being the world association focussed on Waterborne Transport Infrastructure. Nigel is also a member and secretary on PIANC Working Group 158 – Masterplans for the Development of Existing Ports

Peter Czarnomski; Director of Estates, University  Kent

Peter Czarnomski  BSc (Hons) CEng MCIBSE MBIFM – after graduating from Brunel University I worked as a consulting engineer before joining the Property Services Agency where I led the engineering team producing designs for the civil courts division. Moving to Pfizer, where I spent the majority of my career, I rose to the position of Head of Engineering for UK’s Research Division. After an interim spell as Director of Estates at the University of Bedford I became Director of Estates at the University of Kent which has two campuses located at Canterbury and Medway (including Chatham Historic Dockyard), together with academic centres at  Tonbridge, Brussels, Paris, Rome and Athens.