All People articles – Page 14
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NewsManuela Hutter Chalmers
Manuela Hutter Chalmers has been named Head of Finance & HR at Swiss railway Südostbahn.
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NewsJim Squires
Current Norfolk Southern President Jim Squires will succeed Wick Moorman as CEO on June 1. Squires will continue as President, while Moorman is to retain his duties as Executive Chairman of the board.
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NewsJavid Gurbanov
Javid Gurbanov has been appointed Chairman of Azerbaijan Railways. He succeeds Arif Asgarov, who has become Deputy Minister of Transport.
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NewsGE names President
GE Transportation has appointed Thomas Konditi to head its Sub-Saharan Africa business as President & CEO. Having joined GE in 1994 he was most recently Chief Financial Officer of GE Africa, with responsibility for an operation spanning 25 countries. Konditi succeeds Tim Schweikert, who is moving to head up GE’s ...
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NewsMTR Corp selects CEO
MTR Corp has announced the appointment of Lincoln Leong as CEO for a three-year term. Having joined the company as Finance Director in 2002, Leong moved up through the ranks and has been serving as Acting CEO since Jay Walder’s departure last July.
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NewsMike Lowenger
The Railway Association of Canada has created a new position of Chief Safety Culture Officer, appointing its Vice-President of Operations & Regulatory Affairs, Mike Lowenger, to the role.
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NewsDr Ben Möbius
Dr Ben Möbius, currently at lobbying group BDI, is to succeed Dr Ronald Pörner as head of the German railway industry association VDB on July 1.
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NewsAjay Shukla
The Indian Railway Board has appointed Ajay Shukla as Member, Traffic; he also retains his current post as Additional Member (Commercial).
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NewsMiroslav Fukan
Miroslav Fukan, Executive Director of OLTIS Group, has joined the UNIFE Presiding Board, currently chaired by Bombardier Transportation President Lutz Bertling.
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NewsAlhaji Bamanga Tukur
President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as Chairman of Nigerian Railway Corp. Until recently, Tukur served as National Chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party.
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NewsLong-standing Bombardier chief retires
Laurent Beaudoin has retired as Chairman of Bombardier Inc after more than half a century at the helm, although he will stay on as Chairman Emeritus. He is succeeded by Alain Bellemare, whose has enjoyed an 18-year career at United Technologies, most recently as President & CEO of UTC Propulsion ...
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NewsUP elects CEO
Formerly Union Pacific’s President & Chief Operating Officer, Lance Fritz was elected in February to the post of President & CEO, succeeding John Koraleski who became Executive Chairman. Fritz was Executive Vice-President, Operations, from 2010 to 2014, and previously served as Vice-President, Labor Relations.
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NewsMark Hughes
Mark Hughes has moved from London to Sydney to lead the Australasian business at engineering consultancy Interfleet.
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NewsPatrice Caine
Patrice Caine has been elected as Chairman & CEO of Thales Group, having previously been Chief Operating Officer. The two positions are to be split this year, with Caine serving as CEO and Henri Proglio serving as Non-Executive Chairman.
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NewsKaren Hedlund
Engineering consultancy Parsons Brinckerhoff has announced that former FRA Deputy Administrator Karen Hedlund has joined as Director of Public-Private Partnerships.
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NewsSarah Feinberg
Following the departure of Joseph Szabo, Sarah Feinberg has been named Acting Administrator of the US Federal Railroad Administration. Feinberg joins from the Department of Transportation, where she was Chief of Staff.
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NewsAntonio Carlos Rodrigues
Promising to maintain and extend road and rail investment to improve the competitiveness of the logistics sector, Antonio Carlos Rodrigues was sworn in as Brazil’s Transport Minister at a ceremony in Brasilia on January 5. He succeeds Paulo Sérgio Passos.
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NewsPrivate sector expertise
Jacek Leonkiewicz (photo) was appointed Chairman of PKP Intercity on January 16 in succession to Marcin Celejewski. A former banker, he became a board member at PKP SA in 2013, also serving as Chairman of the supervisory board at PKP subsidiary T K Telekom. In 2014 he became a member ...