All People articles – Page 23
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Eickholt takes over rail role
Dr Hans-Jörg Grundmann, Rail Systems Chief Executive at Siemens’ Infrastructure & Cities division, is to become Siemens’ Chief Compliance Officer with effect from October 1.Grundmann’s position at the Rail Systems business unit will be taken by Dr Jochen Eickholt (photo), who previously headed the Rail Automation unit within the Mobility ...
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Abelardo Círico
Abelardo Círico has succeeded Maurício Querino Theodoro as interim President of Brazilian freight railway Ferroeste.
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José Viegas
José Viegas has been elected Secretary General of the International Transport Forum, a global transport policy body based at the OECD in Paris.
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Dr Georg Kasperkovitz
Dr Georg Kasperkovitz has joined the board at Rail Cargo Austria along with Arnold Schiefer, who also retains his place on the board at Rail Cargo Hungaria. Andreas Fuchs has stepped down from the RCA board to become Chairman of its freight forwarding subsidiary Express-Interfracht Internationale Spedition.
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Jean-Pierre Farandou
Jean-Pierre Farandou, a Deputy General Manager on the SNCF Executive Committee, has become President of Keolis. He succeeds David Azéma, who has left the company to become Commissioner of State Holdings in the French government.
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Figueiredo to lead EPL
Bernardo Figueiredo has been named Chief Executive of EPL, Brazil's new multi-modal transport planning and logistics agency established by Presidential decree on August 15. EPL absorbs Etav, the state-owned company formed earlier this year to promote the development of a high speed line linking Campinas, São Paulo and Rio de ...
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Thomas Kratzer
Thomas Kratzer has been appointed Director of freight operator Captrain Germany, where he will work closely with Managing Director Henrik Würdemann.
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Paul Furze-Waddock
Paul Furze-Waddock, currently Business Development Director at Virgin Trains, will join National Express Group as Commercial Development Director in October.
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David Ferryman
David Ferryman has been elected as a Governor of Arema for a three-year term. The Canadian National Vice-President will assume his post at the association’s annual conference in September.
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Flavio Crivelli
Flavio Crivelli has been appointed Regional Co-ordinator, South, at SBB, succeeding Roberto Tulipani. Ilona De March has resigned from the Swiss operator’s board.
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Ben Martins
Ben Martins has succeeded S’bu Ndebele as South Africa’s Minister of Transport, while Sindisiwe Chikunga becomes Deputy Minister of Transport.
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Harrison named CP CEO
Following the appointment of Paul Haggis as Chairman, Canadian Pacific has selected Hunter Harrison (photo) as President & CEO. The former head of Canadian National replaces interim CEO Stephen Tobias. Harrison is widely viewed as the preferred choice of William Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital Management firm owns a 14.2% ...
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Krzysztof Dyl
Krzysztof Dyl has been appointed Chairman of Polish rail regulator UTK. He has held the post in an interim capacity since his predecessor Krzysztof Jaroszynski was dismissed in January.
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Carsten Reinhardt
Carsten Reinhardt has joined the Corporate Board of Management at Voith and has also been named President & CEO of Voith Turbo.
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Erich Forster
Erich Forster, Chief Commercial Officer of Westbahn, has succeeded the Austrian open access operator’s founder Dr Stefan Wehinger as CEO. Wehinger will sell his stake in the company and resign from the board.
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Miguel Penaloza Barrientos
Miguel Penaloza Barrientos has succeeded German Cardona Gutierrez as Colombia’s Minister of Transport.
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Gert Frost
Gert Frost (photo) is to succeed Mogens Jonck as Commercial Director at Danish state railway DSB; Frost will continue as CEO of DSB S-tog until a successor is found. Director of Personnel Lone Lindsby has decided to step down, and will be replaced by CEO Jesper Lok on an interim ...
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Pepy nominates directors
SNCF President Guillaume Pepy has nominated Jean-Pierre Farandou (left) to work closely with him in the newly-created post of Deputy Director General. Voyages-sncf.com Director General Rachel Picard (below) has been appointed Director General, SNCF Gares & Connexions, succeeding Sophie Boissard who is now Deputy Director General, Strategy & Development.
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Michael Clausecker
Michael Clausecker, who became Chairman of Bombardier Transportation’s German business in March, has been elected to succeed Dr Klaus Baur as President of industry association VDB.