Who we are…
Team
Andrew Dowding
Managing Director
Meetings of Minds
+44 (0)7802 174890
andrew.dowding@meetingsofminds.co.uk
Paul Wheeler
Content Director
Meetings of Minds
paul.wheeler@meetingsofminds.co.uk
Diane Lloyd
Operations
Meetings of Minds
diane.lloyd@meetingsofminds.co.
Dima Boulos
Customer Service & Social Media
BlueSky Virtual Services
dima.boulos@meetingsofminds.co.uk
Steve Norris
Chair of Meeting of Minds and Co-President of Interchange
www.stevenorris.co.uk
Lord McLoughlin
Co-President of Interchange
Credentials
The team behind Interchange is one the most accomplished and respected in the infrastructure events sector. Now operating as Meetings of Minds , their successful history, outlined below, underlines their experience.
2012–2019
Essential Infrastructure Events
Essential Infrastructure Events (EIE) was launched in 2012 with the launch of Runways UK (with the UK Airports Commission) and Tomorrows Rail. Highways UK launched with Highways England in 2015 and has now grown to become a major industry event with over 7,000 visitors, 250 exhibitors and 300 speakers.
2010–2015
Base (business and a sustainable environment)
Base launched in 2010 with a major series of events about businesses and city sustainability with editions in London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds and Nantes.
2003-2006
Thames Gateway Forum
Andrew Dowding started out in 2003 with the launch of the ground-breaking and award-winning Thames Gateway Forum which was sold to UBM in 2006 (after London had successfully won the 2012 Olympic Bid).
Prior to that, Andrew started his business to business media career at VNU in the early 1990s at the peak of the business publishing boom. This was followed by successful tenures at Emap in charge of the Civil Engineering portfolio (including NCE) and Reed Exhibitions.
