2020 Judges

Commissioner at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) and New York City’s first Chief Fleet Officer. Keith is an agency lead for Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities in NYC and is currently spearheading a series of safety initiatives for the city’s fleet. New York City has the largest municipal fleet in the United States with over 30,000 vehicles, 80,000 fleet operators, and more than 2,000 staff engaged in fleet operations and servicing. It also has one of the greenest fleets in the nation, with more than 17,000 vehicles operating on some type of alternative fuel including hybrids, electric, compressed natural gas, and biodiesel.

Eric Richardson first entered the world of fleet in 2002 via the information technology side managing NYC’s first citywide fleet management system. He coordinated special projects including working on the upgrade of the citywide fleet management system, the citywide replacement of fuel cards for over 12,000 vehicles and 24/7 fueling with the National Guard after Superstorm Sandy. As a member of the Vision Zero Task Force,Eric is continuing work on the largest municipal roll-out of truck side guards, a robust vehicle telematics program, and ensuring that all of the city’s non-emergency authorised drivers have taken the New York State authorised defensive driving program.

Vince has been in the transport industry for over 30 years. His main duties involve coordinating the cleansing, waste and transport contracts for the City of London. He is the ‘O’ licence holder for the City of London and responsible for the implementation of the Corporate Transport Policy.

Vince is a member of CILT, a member of CIWM, a Carmen Liveryman and Freeman of the City of London.

Since 2008, he has been involved with the Fleet Operators Recognition Scheme (FORS) and was one of the first local authorities to gain gold accreditation. Vince is part of the of the FORS Governance group (GSAG) and in 2017 became Chairman of the FORS Executive Group. He is also a CLOCS Champion promoting work-related Road Risk Strategy.

Arend started work at City of London Police in 2002 and became the Fleet Manager in November 2006. He is a chartered member of CILT and recently became a Freeman of The City of London.

Arend is also Secretary for the National Association of Police Fleet Managers (NAPFM) and involved in its Strategic Development Group. He has been at the forefront of emergency vehicle engineering and procurement: exchanging specifications and best value outcomes to standardise vehicle specificationsand aggregating buyingvolumes.

Arend also heads up two purchasing groups using innovative procurement methodology, such as life cycle based e-auctions and a whole life cost assessment ,whilst reducing the maximum permissible CO2 emissions from those vehicles considered for procurement.