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Abellio names Greater
Anglia managers
nThe new Greater Anglia
management team has been
announced by Abellio. The team is:
n Ruud Haket – managing
director;
n Andrew Goodrum – customer
services director;
n Adam Golton – finance
director;
n Thijs Jan Noomen – projects
director;
n John Ratcliffe – engineering
director;
n Nanouke van ’t Riet –
operations director;
n Andrew Camp – commercial
director;
n Simone Bailey – asset
management director; and
n Dave Welham, interim HR
director.
Haket, 47, said: ‘We are all
committed to delivering the
proposals made within the bid and
listening to the requirements of
our customers, stakeholders and
employees, many of whom I have
met during recent roadshows across
the region.’
Left to right: Matthew Jones, Paul
Woolley and Edward Robinson
Ruud Haket
Stagecoach names new
management teams
Senior management teams at
transport group Stagecoach
have been confirmed, following
new South West Trains’ (SWT)
managing director Tim Shoveller
taking up his post, and David
Horne taking over as managing
director of East Midlands Trains
(EMT).
SWT’s new operations director
will be Mark Steward, 49, formerly
safety and operations director
for EMT. With 28 years’ railway
experience he replaces Ian
Johnston, while Kelly Barlow,
34, moves from the Stagecoach
business development team to
become SWT HR director, replacing
Andrew Welsby, who is leaving the
rail industry.
Steward and Barlow join
SWT directors Christian Roth
(engineering), Andy West (finance),
Jake Kelly (customer services)
and Brian Cook (safety and
environment).
Haket became bid director at
Abellio in 2009 following his tenure
as engineering director from the
start of the Northern Rail franchise
in 2004.
His rail career started within
NedTrain, the maintenance arm of
Netherlands Railways (NS), in 1996.
Andrew Chivers, managing
director of the former National
Express East Anglia franchise, has
remained with National Express.
At EMT, Ian Smith, 43, is
the newly appointed safety and
operations director. He previously
held senior roles within Wessex
Trains, South West Trains, First
Great Western and Atoc, most
recently on rolling out the new
GSMR system at Atoc, and giving
short-term cover as EMT customer
service director.
Meanwhile. Tim Gledhill, 45,
has been promoted from financial
controller to finance director at
EMT, replacing Richard Bodicoat,
now part of the Stagecoach
business development team.
Clare McCartney, 31, has been
promoted to HR director, replacing
Margaret Kay who takes over as
MD at Stagecoach Supertram. Tim
Sayer continues as engineering
director, and a customer service
director is yet to be appointed
David Horne said that he
looked forward to a year of ‘great
challenges and opportunities’.
Keith Greenfield joins
Heathrow Express
Heathrow Express has appointed
Keith Greenfield as its new
managing director. He was
previously airline business
development director for BAA,
Heathrow Express’s owner, following
a nine-year stint as head of Orange
UK’s Wholesale Business division.
He says: ‘I have always admired
the attention to detail, customer
care, service and reliability that I have
experienced at Heathrow Express
as a customer.’
Outgoing MD Richard Robinson
has joined the consultancy Aecom
as managing director of its
transportation business in Europe.
PB appoints Bridges to
head up signalling
nEngineering consultancy
Parsons Brinckerhoff has
appointed Ian Bridges as its new
head of signalling in the UK.
A chartered engineer, with a
nScottish-based contact centre
operator, Journeycall, has
appointed Angela Birchall as
support services manager, based at
its Laurencekirk headquarters.
Trisha Pirie, Journeycall
masters in rail systems engineering,
Bridges was previously engineering
director for Signalling Solutions, a
joint venture between Alstom and
Balfour Beatty.
Birchall joins management
Peter Garnett receives
a cake from C2C MD
Julian Drury
managing director, said: ‘I’m
particularly pleased to promote
Angela to this key role, as she
has risen quickly through the
Journeycall company ranks since
joining us in 2009.’
Peter Garnett, a member of staff for C2C at Benfleet station, is retiring after
50 years of working in the rail industry. He joined the railway at the beginning
of February 1962 as a junior porter or ‘box boy’ at Southend Central station.
He progressed to working as a ticket collector and train guard, before moving
to a customer services role at Benfleet station.
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