Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has appointed Francisco Torrealba as President of state railway owner and operator IFE. He has been tasked with four main objectives: to improve the quality of services to towns in the Tuy Valley; to build new relations with IFE workers; to review every rail project in the country; and to create a mass transport corporation to unify the operation of all of the country’s railways.
UK: Serco has named Kathryn Darbandi as the next Managing Director of Scotland to London overnight train operator Caledonian Sleeper. Darbandi is currently Executive Consultant, Transformation Strategy, at Travel Leaders Group. Her previous roles have included Director of Retail Customer Experience at ...
UK: TfL Rail and future Crossrail train operating concessionaire MTR Elizabeth Line has appointed Nigel Holness as its next Managing Director, with effect from early 2021. He will replace current Managing Director Steve Murphy, who is to become CEO of MTR UK from October 1 following the ...
UK: The Rail Delivery Group has announced leadership changes, and a restructuring which it said is designed to make it better placed to support the reform of the rail industry. Steve Montgomery, Managing Director of FirstGroup’s First Rail business, becomes RDG Chair, succeeding Chris Burchell who ...
EUROPE: Alberto Mazzola was elected as the next Executive Director of the Community of European Railway & Infrastructure Companies at the CER General Assembly on September 21.
BNSF has named Kathryn M Farmer as its next President & Chief Executive Officer with effect from January 1 2021.
EUROPE: Eurostar Chief Executive Mike Cooper has been appointed as the next Arriva Group CEO with effect from early October, succeeding Dr Manfred Rudhart who is stepping down after almost five years. Cooper’s previous roles have included Managing Director of the direct sales business of the ...
