Timo Vuortio - Director
Timo grew up around trucks – his grandfather ran a transport company – and his passion for historic vehicles goes back more than 50 years. After university, Timo completed his military service as a transport officer. Following several jobs in technology he became IT Coordinator for the Swedish Church, before retiring in 2025. He has held positions on various historic vehicle club boards and has served as a competition director and has organised numerous rallies and exhibitions. This led to his interest and participation in the Swedish Federation of Historic Vehicles, MHRF. He has been a member of FIVA's Utilitarian Commission and its Director for many years, and owns and maintains a collection of trucks of many kinds and cars, mostly from Mercedes-Benz brand.
Giovanni Olivieri - Commission Member
After graduating from the Italian Nautical Institute, Giovanni began his career as a Deck Officer, which he left a few years ago with the rank of ship's Captain. Always passionate about vintage vehicles, he was a member of the Vintage Motorcycle Commission of the Italian Motorcycling Federation and, for several years, a member of the Utilitarian and Recreational Vehicles Commission of the ASI Auto Moto Club Storico Italiano.
Hubert Flaig - Commission Member
After studying Fine Arts, History, and Empirical Cultural Studies, Hubert worked for 16 years at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation in Stuttgart. In 1991, he founded his own communications agency specializing in production technology and robotics. Alongside this, Hubert has long been involved with industrial history and historical agricultural technology. Since 2013 Hubert has been Managing Director of the German Association of Historical Agricultural Technology (BHLD), which today oversees approximately 230 clubs with 30,000 members and is a corporate member of the ADAC (German Automobile Club). In 2016, in cooperation with the Dutch association FEHAMC, BHLD founded the European Friends of Historical Agricultural Machinery (EFHAM).
Frantisek Cecil - Commission Member
František has been involved in historic vehicles for 50 years and holds various positions in the veteran movement; he is Vice President of the Czech Republic Auto Club and has been Chairman of the Czech Veteran Car Clubs Association for 17 years. In addition to managing the activities of clubs in the Association he is focused on military vehicle events (he holds a licence to drive a T72 tank) and helping to create conditions for the operation of historic vehicles in the Czech Republic. František has also raced historic cars since 1989, and is a two time champion in the European Historic Car Hill Climb Championship.
Holger Hahn - Commission Member
A Master Mechanic for commercial vehicles since 1985, Holger worked for Daimler Truck for 25 years and MAN for 5 years. He then became a self-employed consultant advising all well-known manufacturers on commercial vehicle issues, focusing on used vehicle sales and rental. In 2021 Holger was appointed General Manager for the importer of the Ford Trucks brand into Germany. He is also involved in many commercial vehicle classic car clubs and represents commercial vehicles in a parliamentary working group in the German Bundestag.
Phil Sampson - Commission Member
After studying photography, film and TV, Phil spent two years in the mining industry followed by six years in defence. He then became the UK Communications Consultant for Scania before starting his own communications company in 1996. Phil is also a Vice-President of the UK's National Transport Trust and Heritage Director for the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs, FIVA's Authorised National Federation (ANF) for the UK. Phil is currently leading his ANF's submission to have the UK's Historic Vehicle Enthusiast's Movement recognised as an example of Intangible Cultural Heritage (also known as Living Heritage) in line with UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage.
JOHANNES HÜBNER - ASSOCIATE MEMBER
Johannes has been a member of the Archives Working Group of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Historic Commission since 1992. He is also the organiser of Germany's Classic-Gala Schwetzingen, a highly regarded Concours d'Elegance event which includes a section for small and mid-weight utilitarian vehicles. In his professional life Johannes leads the Emergency and Crisis Intervention team of the Germany-based RDA International Coach Tourism Federation. Since 2014 the work of this group has been extended to also monitor fire incidents on trucks.