Christopher Penn Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Gb

- Project communications management - formulating and leading communication strategies for major investment projects; managing the stakeholder relationships through briefings and forum events; working collaboratively with industry partners and the internal workstream leaders. Examples include East Coast Upgrade, GTR's Electrostar Upgrade and introducing longer trains on Fen Line.- Managing relationships between the business and local communities surrounding sensitive issues which could be reputational or industry damaging. This included being the Comms lead for the Cambridge Depot Upgrade programme.- Working alongside other teams to coordinate and promote ‘Return to rail’, as well as community and wellbeing initiatives – including webinars during Covid-19 pandemic to ensure maximum engagement with key stakeholders.

LNER Communications and Stakeholder lead for the King's Cross Remodelling Programme and East Coast Mainline Upgrade.

London, United Kingdom

• Supporting and leading on elements of the overall communications delivery for GWR’s fleet upgrade programme, including introduction of next-gen Intercity Express Trains.• External and Internal communications lead on major railway engineering work as part of the Great Western Electrification Programme, ie. Severn Tunnel closure, Reading track remodelling etc.• GWR communications lead for the UEFA Champions League Final in Cardiff in 2017; now advising for future events in Cardiff regarding GWR’s reputation management.• Leading on PR opportunities to generate engaging content and for online channels and media.• Supporting the press office function – responding to media enquiries (including on-call) and managing film requests.

London, United Kingdom

As the media relations executive I prepare media plans, respond to press enquiries, cover out of hours on-call, write and issue press releases, conduct media analysis and prepare the Managing Director and senior members of the executive team ahead of media interviews I also take the communications lead on a selection of FCC projects - in particular station improvements. I am responsible to design and roll out communications plans with industry colleagues e.g. Network Rail, seek agreement from third parties and coordinate the delivery of communication plans with colleagues.

Master'S Degree, Journalism

Modules on Media Law, News Reporting, Production Journalism, Journalism Studies, Public Affairs and Specialist News.

Higher National Certificate, Civil Engineering

Activities and Societies: Sport's Editor of University Newspaper Developed a basic knowledge of Civil Engineering