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JOYNER TO LEAD CROSSCOUNTRY
ANDY COOPER is to step down as
Managing Director of CrossCountry,
with former Arriva Trains Wales
Managing Director Tom Joyner taking
over at the beginning of June.
Mr Cooper has led CrossCountry
since it came into the Arriva fold
in November 2007. A career
railwayman, he joined British Rail
in 1980 after graduating from
Cambridge University. In 1986 he
joined the InterCity sector team
on the Great Western and later
moved to a business planning
role at BR headquarters. After
helping guide InterCity through the
privatisation process in the 1990s
he held managing director roles at
Anglia Railways, Gatwick Express,
Great Western, Central Trains and
CrossCountry, along with a two-year
spell at Metronet under the London
Underground’s public-privatepartnership arrangements. He is also
a fellow and non-executive director
of the Permanent Way Institution.
Mr Joyner joined BR in 1993 and
has worked across the industry with
a number of operators as well as
Network Rail. He was most recently
managing director at Arriva TrainsWales prior to the transfer of the
franchise to KeolisAmey last October,
since when he has worked centrally
at Arriva developing the customer
strategy proposition for the coming
years. He joined Arriva from London
Midland, where he was Passenger
Services Director. To ny MilesChange at CrossCountry: Tom Joyner (left) is taking over the reins from Andy Cooper (right).Howard Smith
to lead IRO
THE ROLE of IRO Chair has
transitioned from Alex Hynes,
Managing Director of the ScotRail
Alliance, to Howard Smith, Chief
Operating Officer, Crossrail, Transport
for London.
Mr Hynes took over as Chair in
November 2016 and has presided
over a period when IRO membership
has grown from 5,500 to 8,000.
Howard Smith, a Fellow of
the IRO, has served on the Board
since September 2017.Passing the operating baton:
Alex Hynes (left) welcomes
Howard Smith to the IRO Chair.WARD FOR EMT OPERATIONS
DARREN WARD is the new
Operations Director at East Midlands
Trains, replacing Ian Smith, who is to
take up a new role in Canada.
Mr Ward is a driver by trade and
began his career in 1986 as a traction
trainee with British Rail. He joined
Stagecoach in November 2007 at
the start of the EMT franchise. In the
role of Head of Operations Strategy
he led a number of high profileprojects and safety initiatives, before
taking up the position of Head of
Drivers just over three years ago.
In this position he successfully led
the introduction of Sundays in the
working week for EMT’s drivers.
Mr Smith had been Safety and
Operations Director for EMT since
2011 and is moving to Toronto to
take up the role of Vice President –
Operations at GO Transport.
Ops Director: Darren Ward.HOLMES CONFIRMED IN WEST MIDS ROLE
WEST MIDLANDS Rail Executive
(WMRE) has confirmed the
appointment of Malcolm Holmes as
executive director on a permanent basis.
Mr Holmes has held the role on an
interim basis since WMRE was formed.
The organisation is a partnershipof 14 local authorities within the
West Midlands area which has been
setup with the aim of influencing
and eventually managing local rail
services within the region. Under
his leadership the organisation has
published a 30-year Rail InvestmentStrategy and played a key role in the
awards of the West Midlands franchise.
Mr Holmes has over 25 years’
experience of delivery in the rail
sector, with the last six years in
Transport for West Midlands
and its predecessor Centro.New chair for
Rail Forum
RAIL FORUM Midlands has
appointed Paul Robinson as its new
Chair, with effect from 1 March.
Mr Robinson is Managing
Director of Keolis Nottingham Trams,
which operates and maintains the
city’s light rail system. He is also a
Board Director for the KeolisAmey
Metrolink and Seilwaith Amey Keolis
Ltd (W&B) franchises. He has over
35 years’ experience in the rail sector,
having held director positions at
RFS, Babcock/Siemens, Bombardier
and Alstom Transport. He replaces
outgoing chair Paul Francis, who
had held the role since 2016.
Meanwhile, the Forum’s General
Manager Elaine Clark has taken up a
new post as Chief Executive Officer.
Ms Clark has been General Manager
for the last 2½ years and will continue
to be responsible for the delivery
of RFM’s key strategic objectives
together with implementation of the
Rail Sector Deal Midlands initiatives.RFM role: Paul Robinson.WATSON JOINS VENDIGITAL
MANAGEMENT
CONSULTANCY Vendigital has
appointed Terence Watson as
a senior adviser in its team of
sector specialists.
Mr Watson has over
15 years’ experience in corporate
leadership positions in the
transport and energy industries.
He was Alstom’s UK managing
director until 2016, when he
stepped down in the face of
corruption allegations, but
was subsequently acquitted
of a charge of conspiracy to
corrupt in November 2018.At Vendigital he will give
guidance and support to
continue the development of the
firm’s transport practice, with a
particular focus on railways and
optimising collaborations.
Vendigital specialises in
advising corporates and other
organisations in supply chain
structuring and optimisation,
as well as cost reduction and
procurement strategies.
The firm’s technology team also
helps businesses develop bespoke
systems to harness big data and
drive organisational value.Joy for Amey Rail
AMEY HAS appointed Andy Joy as
sector director for its rail business.
Mr Joy joined Amey in 2018 as a
business director when the company
acquired the majority of Carillion’s
rail businesses following that firm’s
collapse in January 2018. Mr Joy had
been managing director for Carillion
Rail and National Operations Director
and played a key role in ensuring the
smooth transition of 600 employees
and several major contracts into Amey.
Contracts transferring from Carillion
included work on the Midland main
line, Crossrail and the North West
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