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London, United Kingdom

Rock Rail was established in 2014 to offer innovative, value enhancing funding approaches for strategically important passenger rolling stock and other rail infrastructure. Rock Rail is transforming the rolling stock market and since 2016 has secured £3.2 billion of funding for new rolling stock fleets from Siemens, Stadler, Hitachi and Bombardier for use.

London, United Kingdom

Rock Rail was awarded preferred funder for Regional and Inter-City fleets for Abellio Greater Anglia, the company was awarded the Greater Anglia franchise by the Department for Transport in August 2016. As Senior Consultant, I was part of the bid team that successfully achieved completion of the c£700m transaction within 41 days, in October 2016. I.

Nomad Digital is the leading global provider of passenger and fleet-management solutions to the rail industry. Headquartered in the UK, with more than 50 customers across the world, Nomad designs, builds, deploys and manages Passenger WiFi and Passenger Information systems. It also provides remote condition-based monitoring and maintenance solutions for.

As a member of senior management, I held overall responsibility for Sales, Business Development and Relationship Management activities in the UK and Ireland and a wider brief that included expanded responsibilities in the rest of Europe. I was overall lead for bidding and new business development activity and lead negotiator on all major UK bids. The Role.

As a member of the Rail Systems Executive, I headed up the Siemens Sales organisation in the UK and was accountable for the Sales performance of the Rail Systems Division. Overall responsibility for relationship management, business development and all sales activities, including tendering, major contract negotiations, variations and amendments in the new.

A member of the Hitachi Rail Europe Executive, headed up the Hitachi Rail Europe Sales and Commercial team with responsibility for the Business Development, Sales, Commercial and Strategic Planning activities of Hitachi's rail business in both the UK and Europe. Developed and implemented Hitachi Rail Europe's strategy for engagement in mainland Europe.

Led a multi-functional team of Account Managers, Fleet Managers, Rolling Stock Engineers and Project Managers, responsible for all aspects of activities relating to HSBC's portfolio of Intercity and Freight rolling stock assets, working with customers and suppliers to maximise long term profitability of assets and minimise residual value risks.

Mba, Masters In Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Awarded the Director’s Prize for Project Management.

Apmp, Project Management

Goethe-Zertifikat B1 (Cef), German Language

Certifikované Zkoušky Z Češtiny Pro Cizince - Úroveň A2, Czech Language

Czech Language Certificate Exam Level A2

Dipm - Graduate Diploma In Marketing, Chartered Institute Of Marketing

Ba Hons, History