Network Rail

Several leadership changes have been announced that will take place in April next year:

• Rob McIntosh, currently the Route Managing Director for the North West and Central Region, has been appointed as Chair of the TransPennine Route Upgrade Board.
• Taking over McIntosh’s role will be Jake Kelly, the current Managing Director for the Eastern Region.
• Ellie Burrows, presently the Regional Managing Director for the Southern Region, will succeed Kelly in the Eastern Region. A replacement for Burrows has yet to be named.
• Jamie Burles, the former Managing Director of Greater Anglia, has been appointed as Deputy Managing Director for the Eastern Region at Network Rail.

Connect Plus Services

Have announced the appointment of Louise Haining as Managing Director. Haining moves internally from her role as Asset and Project Delivery Director.

SGN

Have announced the appointment of Simon Kilonback as Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Mark Wild. Kilonback joined SGN last year as Chief Financial Officer.

TransPennine Route Upgrade

Have announced the appointment of James Richardson as Managing Director. Richardson is currently Managing Director of the Skanska Costain STRABAG joint venture delivering the HS2 Main Civils south section.

Greater Anglia

Following James Burles stepping down, Martin Beable has joined as Managing Director. Beable moves internally from his group role as New Trans & Fleet Director for Transport UK Group.

Mace

Andrew Jackson has stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of Mace Construct after just three months in the role.

Jason Millett, currently serving as Deputy Chief Executive Officer, will assume the position on an interim basis until a permanent successor is appointed.

Mace Datacentre Chief, Jon McElroy has also stepped down from his position, this follows the departure of several other directors including Public Sector Managing Director, Terry Spraggett and Major Projects Managing Director, Andy Jones.

Mace have also announced the appointment of Geoff Smith as Operations Director working on Sizewell C. Smith joins from Sir Robert McAlpine, where he was Operations Director- Nuclear.

East West Railway Company

Have announced the appointment of David Bray as Executive Programme Director. Bray joins form National Highways, where he was Programme Director, Smart Motorways.

WSP

Have appointed Astrid Berkman as Executive Managing Director, Planning & Advisory. Berkman joins from Arcadis, where she was Global Managing Director, Transformation Advisory.

Clancy

Have made three new appointments following its plans to grow in the energy, water, and major civils engineering projects sectors.

Jon Arnold has been appointed as Operations Director. Arnold joins from Skanska, where he was Project Director.

Long-serving Directors at Clancy, Martin McGovern and Bryan Curtayne, have been appointed into the Executive Board of Directors.

Galldris Group

Michael Condon joins as Operations Director. Condon moves from Sir Robert McAlpine, where he was also Operations Director.

HDR

Have appointed Steven Feeney as Transportation Business Group Manager. Feeney joins from Jacobs, where he was Rail and Transit Growth Lead.

Heathrow Express

Have announced the appointment of Aoife Considine as Business Lead & Director. Considine returns to Heathrow Express from Heathrow Airport where she has been since 2023.

Chiltern Railways

Michael Stewart has been appointed as Commercial and Customer Strategy Director. Stewart joins from Avanti West Coast, where he was Director of Revenue Management.

First Bus

Have appointed Pat Beijer as Business Development Director. Beijer joins from South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, where he was Director of Transport Development and Capital Delivery.

United Living Group

Subsidiary United Living Infrastructure Services (ULIS) have appointed Scott Beard as Director of Water, after it won places on major AMP8 frameworks in the past six months. Beard was previously Head of Water Engineering at Dwr Cymru Welsh Water.

Turley

Nicola Riley as Senior Director in its net zero infrastructure team. She joined from WSP, where she was Head of Renewables.

Royal Mail

Paula Stannett has been appointed as Chief People Officer. Stannett joins from Heathrow Airport, where she was Executive HR Director.

MAG (Airports Group)

Thomas McShane has been appointed as Project Director. McShane joins from NEOM, where he was Projects Director, Airports.

National Grid

Kate Grant joins as Director of Asset Operations. Grant leaves Cadent Gas, where she was Director of East of England Network.

Anglian Water @one Alliance

Have appointed Paul Lonsdale as Delivery Director. Lonsdale joins from AWE, where he was Head of the Capital Programme.

Transport UK London Bus

Following the departure of Managing Director, Jon Eardley, Transport UK have announced the appointment of David Cutts as Managing Director for London Bus. Cutts was most recently Managing Director for Go Ahead London.

A new leadership team has been announced together with David Cutts’ appointment. Alastair Willis, Head of Commercial, has been promoted to Commercial Director. Paul Hennigan, coming from Oxford Bus, has been appointed Fleet and Facilities Director.

Sajid (Ziggy) Chaudry joins as Performance Director from Go-Ahead London where he was Area Performance General Manager.

Finally, Trevor Johnson, until now Area General Manager at Go Ahead London, has been appointed Interim Operations and HR Director.

Transport for London

Have announced the appointment of Natalie Conway as Director of Business Services. Conway joins from KPMG, where she was Head of People Operations.

Portsmouth Water

John Bryan has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer. Bryan joins from Mace, where he was Water Operations Director.

Buro Happold

Simon Walters joins as Operations Director within the Specialist Unit. Walters leaves Jacobs, where he was Specialists Capability Director.

Kier Group

Robert Thomson has stepped down from his position as Defence & Security Sector Director. His successor is yet to be announced.  

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