IHS Automotive Spring Conference 2012

Rajiv Biswas

Chief Economist – Asia-Pacific, IHS

Rajiv Biswas, Senior Director and Asia Chief Economist at IHS, is responsible for coordination of economic analyses and forecasts for the Asia-Pacific region, contribution to the IHS global forecast, client support, business development and media interaction.

Mr. Biswas previously worked as Director for South-East Asia for The Economist Group. Prior to this, he worked for UBS as Executive Director for Asia-Pacific Country Risk and before that as Director and Senior Economist for International Public Policy and Group Economic Research covering the Asia-Pacific region. His experience has also included working for an international organisation, the Commonwealth Secretariat, in their London headquarters, as a senior economist in the International Capital Markets Department.

His professional career as an international economist also includes the roles of Head of the Economics Unit for QIC, a large investment fund manager, and an international economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. Rajiv also worked for one year in Japan on trade and investment issues for the Japanese government.

Rajiv is a graduate of the London School of Economics, with a BS (Hons) in Economics and received his MS and DIC from the Imperial College at London University.

Rajiv has published widely on a range of economic, trade and investment-related topics, with over 100 published articles.

Charles Chesbrough

Sr. Principal Economist, IHS Automotive

Charles Chesbrough, Senior Economist, is responsible for developing and integrating macro-sales forecast scenarios and models into IHS Automotive worldwide global forecasts. Prior to joining IHS Automotive, Mr. Chesbrough was a Senior Consultant in Ford Motor Company's North American Marketing Strategy Group. In addition, Mr. Chesbrough is an expert in market research and econometric analysis through many years as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Chesbrough was a Ph.D. student in economics at Michigan State University, holds an M.A. in economics from the University of Illinois, Chicago and a B.A. in economics from Michigan State University.

Tom De Vleesschauwer

Senior Manager, Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, IHS Automotive

De Vleesschauwer is Associate Director and Senior Consultant in the Automotive Consulting practice. He is responsible for both business and technical consulting projects in the automotive industry in Europe. He has more than 13 years' experience in the international automotive industry and has contributed to many special projects, including the 42 Volts study (1999), Future Powertrain Technologies (2000), Diesel Particulate Filter (2001), Future Powertrain Technologies (2000, 2004, 2007), Automotive Sourcing Strategies (2002), and Niche Vehicle Market (2003). More recently his work included areas such as biofuels market potential, CO2 forecasting evaluations, and future mobility outlooks.

De Vleesschauwer has an MBA from the Cardiff Business School at the University of Wales.

Mark Fulthrope

Senior Manager, European Light Vehicle Production Forecast, IHS Automotive

Atsushi Ishii

Senior Manager, Japan/Korea Powertrain Forecasts, IHS Automotive

Mike Jackson

Senior Manager, North American Production Forecast, IHS Automotive

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Hiromu Kakishita

APAC Sales Director, IHS Automotive

Phil Magney

Senior Director of Automotive Infotainment

Phil Magney, Senior Director of Automotive Infotainment for IHS Global Insight, leads a team that provides market intelligence services to a global client base of leading OEMs and suppliers. Prior to this, Mr. Magney was vice president of the iSuppli Automotive Practice, which was acquired by IHS in November 2010. Prior to iSuppli Phil was co-founder and president of Telematics Research Group (TRG), a provider of market and technology services to the automotive industry since 2000.

Phil is a well-respected automotive industry analyst with over 25 years of experience and core specialties in automotive telematics and mobile computing. He is the author of numerous reports and papers for industry trade publications in addition to being a frequent speaker at automotive electronics and safety conferences.

At IHS, Phil directs the research teams responsible for trend analysis, vehicle profiling, technology assessment and forecasting for the automotive business practice. In addition, he focuses on custom research projects and consulting relationships with global suppliers to the automotive industry.

Phil holds a Bachelor's degree in business and economics from the University of Minnesota.