PEOPLE

Robert E Mortensen, Chief Executive Officer of Central East African Railways, has been appointed Managing Director, Africa, for Railroad Development Corporation, leader of the consortium which took over operation of CEAR at the end of last year.

Intercontainer-Interfrigo has appointed Pia Ljunggren as Manager of the North-South Division of its Combined Transport sector. In the same division, Gerhart Storp, Jochen Meyer and Norbert Sedlak have been appointed product managers, and Kathrin Gollan becomes Traffic Manager.

Netherlands Railways’ new Chief Architect is Rob M J A Steenhuis, succeeding Marius Reichert who died last year.

Jack Stephens, Executive Vice President of Customer Development, has been named interim General Manager of Marta in Atlanta following the resignation of Rick Simonetta.

Following the appointment of Philip Mengel as Chief Executive of English Welsh & Scottish Railway (RG 1.00 p18), Managing Director Ian Braybrook has left the company.

Bombardier Transport has named Jacques Lamotte as President of its European Atlantique division, succeeding Bernard Dolphin who has retired. Lamotte joins Bombardier from Valeo, where he was Vice President, Technical.

Under the terms of the proposed merger of Canadian National and Burlington Northern Santa Fe (p66), BNSF Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Robert D Krebs will become non-executive Chairman of North American Railways and CN, whilst CN President & CEO Paul M Tellier will become President & CEO of both companies. CN’s Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer E Hunter Harrison will become Chief Operating Officer of NAR as well, whilst BNSF’s Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer Thomas N Hund will become Chief Financial Officer. BNSF President & Chief Operating Officer Matthew K Rose will become President & CEO of BNSF.

Martin Kreiter has been appointed Head of Marketing at DB Netz.

Following the resignation of Jan Pezarro, Vancouver’s TransLink has appointed Doug Kelsey as President & Chief Executive of the West Coast Express commuter operation.

S Sulima has been named as President of the Dnieper (Pridneprovska) region of Ukrainian Railways, succeeding R Y Evdokimenko.

Alan Nichols, formerly with the British Railways Board, has been appointed Director of Strategy & Planning at the Shadow Strategic Rail Authority. Martin McGann is named Director of Finance, Ian McCullough Technical Director of Signals & Telecommunications, and Peter Hansford Technical Director of Infrastructure. Richard Morris is confirmed as Director of Operations & Safety.

Australian consultancy Sinclair Knight Merz has appointed Lachlan Daniel as National Manager of its Rail Systems Group.

David Harris has been named Deputy Managing Director & Director, Infrastructure, at AEA Technology Rail, while Eddie Morland moves from Operations Director to Marketing & Sales Director. Greg Beedle succeeds Rachel Stretton as Finance Director, Michael Lee becomes Director, Management Consultancy, and Bob Mole is Director, Trains & Systems.

Dr Mike Mitchell has taken over as Rail Director at FirstGroup, replacing Richard George who is leaving the company. Group Finance Director Tony Osbaldiston has been appointed Deputy Chief Executive.

In a reorganisation at Adtranz Switzerland, Alfred Ruckstuhl has been appointed President in succession to Wolfgang Wegener who has left the company. Propulsion Division President Hans Strasser moves to the Locomotive Division in place of Beat Müller, who is also leaving. The new Propulsion Division President is Pär Åstr