John Read
John began his career working for a consultant testing house before moving on to Lafarge Aggregates. After a period of time running asphalt plants on mobile contracts he began studying for his PhD at the University of Nottingham and after graduating with his PhD he was appointed as a full time academic member of staff.
In 1997 John became the Technical Manager for Croda Bitumen where he was responsible for managing both the QC and R&D laboratories and in 1998 John became the Technical Development Engineer for Shell Bitumen where he was responsible for the development and commercialisation of new innovative products. He was also involved in the day-to-day support of customers.
John is currently the UK and Ireland Technology Manager for Shell Bitumen with responsibility for supplying technical services to this area.
John sits on many asphalt and bitumen related committees and has published over 50 technical papers, publications and articles.
David Whiteoak
David has worked in the road construction industry for over 30 years. He began his career with Lothian Regional Council working in a wide variety of areas, from traffic management to site management. In 1977 he left Lothian Region to study Civil Engineering at Heriot-Watt University graduating with a BSc Honours Degree in 1980.
He joined Shell in 1980 working in the Bitumen Group at Thornton Research Centre where he investigated various aspects of the performance of bitumen and asphalt, carrying out technical service activity for customers and the development of new products including Cariphalte DM.
In 1986 he joined the technical department of Shell Bitumen UK and it was during this time that David wrote the 4th edition of the The Shell Bitumen Handbook. Following the publication of the handbook in 1990 David had a three-year assignment in the Elastomers group of Shell International Chemical Company before returning to Shell Bitumen as the Technical Manager in 1994.
David is currently the New Technology Manager for Shell Bitumen responsible for a number of activities including the execution of technical service and R&D activity carried out at the Pavement Research Building. This is all purpose-built laboratory established in conjunction with the University of Nottingham and opened September 2001.
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