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Hynes returns Taskforce role for Lord Deighton
Alex Hynes takes up the helm as managing director of Northern Rail this September. Hynes joins from Go-Ahead Group where he is managing director rail development. He spent his early career as a senior consultant for Halcrow Fox and worked with the Office of Rail Regulation before joining the GoAhead Group in 2005 as strategic planning manager, rail. He was appointed Commercial Director for London Midland in November 2007. Hynes was educated at Altrincham Boys Grammar School and has a degree in Economics from Leeds University. Alex succeeds Ian Bevan, who stepped down in March, and Alan Chaplin, Interim MD. Northern Rail won a further franchise extension in May this year. It will continue to operate until 1 April 2014.
The organiser of the London Olympics, Lord Deighton, has been brought in to head up the newly created HS2 Growth Taskforce. Says Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, ‘HS2 provides a once in a generation opportunity to drive growth, generate jobs, and secure our country’s future prosperity. We need to squeeze every possible benefit from this vital project, leaving no stone unturned. That is why we are setting up a Growth Taskforce and that is why I have asked
Lord Deighton, the man who delivered the Olympics, to lead it. ‘I recognise HS2 is a huge project and I am determined to get maximum payback from the investment. This is about far more than just a new railway and, through the work of the Taskforce, we will be able to identify many of the wider economic benefits it can deliver.’ Paul Deighton was chief executive officer of LOCOG, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. To make him answerable to
parliament he was ennobled prior to the Olympic job. Before that Deighton was chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs in Europe. He worked for Goldman Sachs for 22 years. Earlier he worked for the Security Pacific National Bank and the Bank of America. Lord Deighton is a
sports enthusiast and is a board member of England Rugby 2015, the organising committee for the Rugby World Cup. Married to Alison, he has two grown up sons. He was educated at Wallington County Grammar School and has a degree in Economics from Trinity College Cambridge.
SOE role for Sir Moir
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Sir Moir Lockhead is to be the new patron of the Society of Operations Engineers. Lockhead will take on the role when current SOE patron and co-founder of the Ratcliff Group, John Ratcliff CBE, retires from his duties later this summer. Sir Moir Lockhead will join incoming SOE chief executive Peter Walsh, who joins the Society at the beginning of July. Sir Moir left school at 15 to become an apprentice mechanic, joining Grampian Regional Transport in 1985 as general manager and going on to lead the successful employee buy-out of the company. Since then, as founding director and CEO of FirstGroup, he saw the company grow to be the largest provider of rail and bus services in the UK, USA and Canada. Says Sir Moir, ‘It is an honour and a privilege to become patron of the SOE, especially having spent all of my working life in transport starting as an
Jason McKeon has joined Houghton International as Quality, Safety & Environmental Manager. Jason was a career soldier for 23 years and was promoted through the ranks to Regimental Sergeant Major. He saw service in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Jason is married with two children and lives in Stockton on Tees. During his free time he enjoys walking in the countryside and is a kite surfer. He is a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI), has a diploma in Logistics and holds the Nebosh General Certificate in Health and Safety.
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