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Movers and Shakers in Transport and Infrastructure – The Headlines from January 2018

We’ve made it through another January and it seems that all eyes have been focused on our industries this month. The Carillion collapse has been the big news story, with far reaching consequences across many sectors, putting the spotlight on financial results of other contractors and outsourcers.

Unsurprisingly, January’s been a big month for people looking to make some changes of their own. Let’s take a look at the movers and shakers from last month.

Atkins

Have appointed Philip Hoare as CEO of its UK and Europe region. Philip has led Atkins’ UK and Europe transportation division since 2014 and prior to that was Managing Director for the rail and highways businesses.

Eurostar

CEO of delivery firm Yodel joins as Eurostar’s new Chief Executive. Mike Cooper will join in March replacing Nicolas Petrovic, who is to become Chief Executive Siemens in France. Cooper is also a former Executive of Arriva and EasyJet.

Arup

Have appointed TC Chew as Global Rail Leader to direct the firm’s global rail business. He joins Arup from Samsung Construction & Trading Corporation where he was President of Global Business Operations.

GWR

Simon Green has been appointed as its new Engineering Director and Ruth Busby as HR Director. Simon joins from Govia Thameslink where he was Head of Fleet Production and Ruth leaves AWE where she was Head of Transformation.

Hitachi

Eric Chassard has been appointed as the Project Director for the construction of Hitachi’s £10bn Wylfa nuclear power plant in Anglesey, he joins from Areva, where he was Senior Executive Vice-President of its New Areva business and Chairman and CEO of Areva Projects.

First Group

Jonathan Bridgewood has returned to First Group as Group Rail Technical Director. He moves back from Bombardier where he has been Maintenance Director since 2015.

Simon Aslett also joins from Bombardier as Head of Fleet Business Development.

Heathrow

Andrew Haynes has been appointed as Procurement Director at Heathrow, leaving Network Rail where he was Contracts & Procurement Director.

Ofwat

Have announced the appointment of Alena Kozakova as Senior Director of Analytics and Chief Economist. Alena originally joined the water regulator as Chief Economist in 2016.

Colas

Former Kier infrastructure Managing Director Jag Paddam has joined the contractor as an Associate Director with responsibility for Colas UK Projects.

Stephen Leo, who was UK Business Development Director at Bouygues, is also joining as Head of Preconstruction.

Skanska

Andrew Tilford joins Skanska as Commercial Director for its infrastructure business. He leaves Interserve where he has been a Commercial Director since 2013.

DfT

Polly Payne and Ruth Hannant have joined the DfT as joint Director-Generals. They have job shared for the past seven years, including as Directors of Higher Education Reform.

Royal Haskoning DHV

Philip John has been appointed as Director of Highway/ Infrastructure Design as part of the Advisory Group. Philip is moving from Systra where he was Sector Director for Engineering and Infrastructure.

PwC

Charlie Johnson-Ferguson has been appointed to lead the transport and logistics advisory business. Charlie succeeds Coolin Desai, who led the sector since 2011.

Pell Frischmann

Iain Bisset has joined as Director for Land and Transport. He moves across from WYG where he was a Divisional Director for Infrastructure and Built Environment.

Central Government

Dominic Raab has replaced Alok Sharma as Housing Minister in Theresa May’s reshuffle and Jo Johnson has been appointed Minister of State at the DfT and Minister for London.

TfL

Have appointed Gareth Powell as Managing Director for Surface Transport. He succeeds Leon Daniels who has retired.

Interserve

Have appointed Sally Cabrini as Director of Transformation, IT and People. Sally joins from United Utilities, where she has been performing a similar role.

HS2

Highways England’s Director of Commercial and Procurement, David Poole, is set to join HS2 this March to lead their procurement and supply chain teams.

National Infrastructure Commission (NIC)

Sir John Armitt is to lead the NIC, while a replacement is found for Lord Adonis as Chairman. Armitt, the NIC’s Deputy Chairman has been a member of the commission since its formation in 2015.

Morgan Sindall

Have announced former Laing O’Rourke Director Steve Coleby will take over as Managing Director of its partnerships home division Lovell from April. He replaces Jonathan Goring who has become Partnerships Director for the group.

The group have also appointed James Corker as Regional Delivery Director North in the rail division, he moves from Spencer Group where he has been Regional Director since 2015.

North Midland Construction

Have announced two new appointments; Rob Walsh has been appointed as Plant and Transport Director, he joins from Travis Perkins where he was Regional Director.

Johnny Corkett has also been appointed as Group Financial Controller.

ARCADIS

Tim Strong has joined the consultancy as Transport Innovation Director. He was previously at TRL as Director of their Transport Division.

Kate Kenny also joins the consultant as Senior Technical Director, Kate joins from Mott MacDonald where she was Operations Manager – Surface Transport.

Chief Financial Officer, Renier Vree is stepping down from March.

Highways England

Have announced the permanent appointment of Peter Mumford as Executive Director of Major Projects and Capital Portfolio Management. Peter has held the post on an interim basis since August.

Abellio

Have announced the appointment of former Porterbrook Operations Director, Alex White as their New Trains Director.

Systra

Tony Kearns joins as Regional Operations Director – Northern Europe. Tony leaves WSP where he was Strategy and Operations Director; Rail, Transit and Aviation.

National Grid

Have appointed Antony Green as Head of Network Engineering. Antony leaves DNV GL where he was VP, Utilities and Infrastructure.

Mott MacDonald

Glenn Lyons has been appointed as Professor of Future Mobility at the University of West England, he will work for Mott MacDonald part time.

Graham Bolton has also joined as Global Practice Leader for Aviation. He leaves Atkins where he has been Global Aviation Development Director since 2015.

SMEC

Janardhan Sundaram has joined as Head of Rail, South Asia and Middle East. He leaves Atkins where he was Director for the Middle East.

Rail Freight Group

RFG Chairman Tony Berkeley has announced his intention to retire as Chairman at the RFG Annual General Meeting in November.

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By Jim Newsom5th February 2018

Author: Jim Newsom

Jim Newsom leads our work in construction and infrastructure having worked in executive search since 1998, recruiting for both public and private sector companies in infrastructure, transport, engineering and construction. Prior to forming Newsom Consulting, Jim spent 11 years working for the one of the UK’s largest independently owned executive recruiters and then two years at a boutique search firm. Jim is a graduate in civil engineering from Liverpool University.

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