About This Virtual Event

As of April 2021, as Chief Environmental Officer, Alistair Dormer is in charge of Environmental Strategy for Hitachi on a global level. He was appointed Representative Executive Officer in Hitachi, Ltd. leading the Mobility Sector in April 2019.

Alistair joined Hitachi in 2003 to establish Hitachi’s Rail business in Europe. He was promoted to CEO of Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd. in 2007 and having built a successful business in Europe was promoted to Senior Vice President and Executive Officer Group CEO, Rail Systems Business Unit Hitachi, Ltd. in April 2014, responsible for Hitachi’s global rail business. Under Dormer’s leadership, the Hitachi’s rail business has globalized and grown by more than 300%.

Bob Tiderington is Head of Business Development & Partnerships at BrightDrop, the new electric delivery and logistics business from General Motors, where he is responsible for creating a variety of business opportunities which will contribute to and benefit BrightDrop’s business growth.
Prior to his current role, Tiderington was a Senior Manager within GM’s Innovation & Growth team where he was Business Lead for a project called Smart Cargo, focused on developing solutions for delivery and logistics companies. This led to a new business unit called eDelivery - the internal organization which launched publicly in January 2021 as BrightDrop.
In addition, he was previously responsible for developing GM’s urban mobility strategy on the company’s Urban Active Solutions team, where he helped to create solutions like Maven, a car-sharing and ride-sharing business. Throughout his work with urban mobility, Tiderington has developed a personal mission to help build Detroit as the “mobility” city where a variety of unique and convenient mobility solutions can enhance peoples’ lives.

Dr. Dean Bushey is the Vice President, Hitachi’s Social Innovation Business (GSIB), Americas. He has over 30 years of business, academic, and military leadership experience in energy, EVs, transportation, and mobility as a business leader, computer scientist, educator, commercial pilot, and autonomous and connected systems expert. He leads and directs GSIB America’s team in commercial development and business strategy across multiple verticals, emphasizing advanced digital solutions and data analytics. Within GSIB, we focus on co-creating the next-generation digital solutions, business models, and ecosystems with our customers and partners to drive economic, environmental, and societal value.

He is an internationally recognized expert in autonomous, connected, electric, and shared transportation systems across air, rail, freight, trucking, and shared system modalities. He has leadership experience in autonomous vehicles, served as a senior consultant to several large municipalities on their intelligent and connected transportation systems, and was instrumental in shaping the DoD’s worldwide, autonomous, and connected advanced flight systems.

Daniel has led the transportation industry segment for Hitachi Energy in the Americas region since 2011. He has more than 25 years of experience in the rail and transit industry in roles spanning engineering, marketing, sales, product management and business development. He has extensive experience working with a variety of associations, technical committees and NGOs in the electrical and transportation industry and is a recognized expert in the field of the electrification of transport and sustainable mobility. He currently serves as a board member of InnovÉÉ and IVI Solutions and holds an advanced technical diploma in electrical engineering from the School of Gustave Eiffel in Bordeaux, France and an Executive MBA from the University of Québec in Montreal.

Jim Castellano is the vice president of Design Engineering at Hitachi Astemo Americas, Inc. in Farmington Hills, MI. He launched his career at Ford Motor Company in 1983 while pursuing his studies, and graduated in 1987 from Western Michigan University with a B.S. in Automotive Engineering. Jim has more than 39 years of experience in the automotive industry and holds two patents for his work on high voltage battery systems. In November 2018, Jim joined Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas (changed the name to Hitachi Astemo Americas in 2021) and he is passionately focused on growing the future of electrification technologies.

Sean Ackley has had a career focus on electrical infrastructure technologies and execution projects. As the Hitachi Social Innovation Business resident expert on EV technologies, Sean leverages his background in cloud managed services, product development, testing interoperability, and construction project management in facilitating critical thinking around the transition of large fleets to electric powertrain. His previous experiences in data center power supply and backup, micro-grid power generation, and SCADA/PLC system integration also help in thinking through the total power ecosystem that is necessitated during a scaled EV fleet deployment.