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RAILSTAFF MARCH 2016
Peter to head HS2 bid
Market lead for Atkins
Balfour Beatty VINCI has appointed Peter Anderson to lead its bid for HS2.
David Brewer is to become Atkins’ new strategic rail market director.
Anderson, who was the project director for the Folkestone section of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, will become managing director of the joint venture, which at the end of last year was shortlisted by HS2 for a share of the project’s £900 million portfolio of preparatory works. Says Peter, who has held a variety of senior roles within Balfour Beatty’s rail business, ‘I am delighted to lead Balfour Beatty VINCI’s High Speed 2 Joint Venture with an immediate focus on our bid for the preparatory works. ‘This iconic rail infrastructure project will create significant opportunities for the UK construction industry helping to boost and re-balance the economy including creating thousands of
In his new role, David will lead the strategic rail client team, as well as overseeing the delivery of the company’s ‘long-term market strategy’. David was previously the network delivery and development director for Highways England. Philip Hoare, managing director, Transportation UK and Europe, said, ‘David shares my passion for health and safety and continuing to develop our
jobs, apprenticeships and opportunities for supply chain partners. ‘HS2 will also free up capacity on the existing network as well as dramatically improving journeys between London, the West Midlands and further north.’ The enabling works contracts have been split into three packages: northern, central and southern. Work is currently expected to begin in 2017.
behavioural safety culture both within Atkins and the industry. ‘David brings with him a wealth of experience in leading multiple large complex programmes and will work closely with our client and project delivery teams, building strong client relationships and continuing to build our reputation in the sector. ‘David will be a great asset both to our Transportation division and the Strategic Rail market team. I am delighted to welcome him onto the team and look forward to working with him in our quest to shape the future of transportation.’
'David shares my passion for health and safety and continuing to develop our behavioural safety culture'
Jeremy Westlake joins Network Rail Call Nicole Jeremy Westlake has joined Network Rail as chief financial officer. Formerly senior vicepresident of finance at Alstom Transport in France, he replaces Patrick Butcher, who leaves Network Rail in March to take up the role of chief finance officer at Go-Ahead Group. Jeremy Westlake spent 14 years at Rolls-Royce in a range of senior finance and supply chain roles in the UK and the United States before moving to Alstom Transport in 2013. Westlake started his career as an accountant based in London and Paris, before taking on finance roles in the international manufacturing sector based in France, Italy and Turkey. He is a Chartered Accountant and has a master’s degree in manufacturing from Cambridge University and a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from Exeter University. RAILSTAFF.UK | @RAILSTAFFUK | FACEBOOK.COM/RAILSTAFF
High Speed Two has appointed Nicole Geoghegan as general counsel and company secretary. The move comes 11 months after Betty Morgan retired from the job. Geoghegan has a wide railway experience and lists her skills as dispute resolution. After reading law at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, Nicole worked for Mallesons Stephen Jaques before moving on to a six-year stint as general counsel at Tube Lines in London. In 2006, she went to work for GHD. Then followed two years from February 2012 as head legal counsel for Pacific National Coal, a railway operator with annual revenues of close to $1 billion in Australia. Geoghegan joined Contract Resources Group in 2014 as its first legal counsel. As general counsel and company secretary HS2, she has overarching responsibility for all legal services and company secretariat activities including board and committee management. Geoghegan is responsible for the management of the HS2 legal team and a significant external legal budget.