IHS Automotive Scenarios Workshop

Tiffany Groode

IHS CERA Director

Tiffany A. Groode, IHS CERA Director, leads the research effort for the IHS CERA Automotive Scenarios Advisory Service. Her expertise includes the modeling and analysis of the personal and commercial vehicle sectors.

In this capacity Dr. Groode has developed comprehensive structural capital stock vintaging models that provide insights into the implications of vehicle powertrain technologies, fuel prices and government regulations on the future vehicle mix and fuels demand. Her expertise also includes analyzing the environmental impacts of ethanol production by performing life-cycle uncertainty analysis, evaluating well-to-wheels emissions, and assessing the potential scale of bioethanol production from various biomass sources.

As a leader of the IHS CERA vehicle market research effort, Dr. Groode regularly presents our research findings and insights to major automakers, federal government agencies and petroleum and biofuels providers in the United States and abroad. While working at the Sloan Automotive Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr. Groode presented her bioethanol results and conclusions to a variety of national government agencies to provide insight for policy decisions.

Dr. Groode holds a BS from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MS and a PhD from MIT.

Nigel Griffiths

Chief Automotive Economist, IHS Automotive

Nigel Griffiths has more than 20 years experience in analyzing and forecasting trends and has been with the company since 1992 during which time he pioneered analysis of global platform strategies and predicted the extreme fragmentation now being seen in Europe's auto market. Griffiths' experience includes complex market segmentation studies, impact assessment of Emissions and CO2 legislation, competitive positioning of OEM's, deep-sea car transportation flows, production strategies, platform consolidation, OEM strategies, end-of-life exposure forecasting and alternative market simulation models.

He has an MBA from Cardiff Business School, where he specialized in the economics of the motor industry.

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.

Phil Gott

Managing Director

Gott is Managing Director, IHS Automotive Consulting. He specializes in forward-looking programs that combine technical, business, regulatory and societal trends. He has served the automotive industry since 1975 and has assisted a number of automobile and truck manufacturers, many global suppliers, NGOs and government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and The European Commission as they develop winning future strategies or address critical societal needs.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lafayette College and is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the honorary engineering society, Pi Tau Sigma.