Paul Forrest Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Derby, United Kingdom

One of the great strengths of DB ESG Rail is that we have access to the capability, skills, knowledge and experience of Deutsche Bahn – a vertically integrated operator. No such company exists in the UK.We can access Deutsche Bahn’s 22 test centres, high speed experience and technical and procurement capabilities.Therefore our services include:Delivery partnership – for operators wanting to procure replacement or upgrade of their assets including rolling stock. We can support your in-house capability through provision of technical and procurement expertise.Re-franchising support – we can provide help to operators bidding for operating franchises through specialists in fleet strategy, maintenance, rolling stock upgrade and operational performance optimisation.Integrated rail solutions – maximise your operating potential of rolling stock assets through innovative turnkey solutions.Specialist rolling stock engineering services – unrivalled knowledge of existing UK rolling stock used to solve your problems, help you upgrade and more.We also offer through our sister company Railway Approvals Ltd a dedicated certification service to the rail industry in the UK, Germany and France.

Uk

Part of a small team targeting the development of the Service business into Asia, responsible for Marketing, Strategic Planning, Business Development, Sales Pipeline Governance and Bid Management. Led the Bombardier maintenance propositions for the Hong Kong North South Line, Singapore Downtown Line and Hyderabad Metro also the System Maintenance proposition to the Bangkok Purple Line Metro system. At ESG Rail where I work now I offer strategic consultation into the rail industry.

With an annual operating and development budget of €5.5m and a team of 46, I was responsible for the Marketing, Strategic Plan, Bid Management and Product Management of the UK Service business.During this period as co-inventor of the Orbita Predictive Asset Management toolset now used extensively by Bombardier to monitor and manage train performance, I was responsible for the development of the product of the Orbiflo family of products now offered to the broader market. The Bombardier Orbita team received the 2009 Modern Railways/Railway Forum Railway Industry Engineering Innovation Award and the 2009 IET Innovation Award for Asset Management. I’m looking forward to receiving more awards in my new role at ESG Rail!

Reporting directly to the President of the global services division I was responsible for a team of 20 devoted to developing winning sustainable strategic growth and a successful Divisional market positioning that enabled top and bottom line growth. Strategic development and re-alignment of the Service Division post integration of Bombardier and ADtranz, I was Instrumental in defining the strategic direction of the Division including the rationalisation of the business footprint and organisation evolution from a decentralised geographic structure to regional product line structure.

Montreal Canada

Based in Bombadier Transportation Head office St Bruno Montreal, responsible for the management and development of the Transportation Division Bid Governance process.

Doncaster, United Kingdom

As an Executive member of the management team that established both companies I undertook a number of roles to create and develop very successful businesses that were eventually acquired by Bombardier. RFS Projects served as an internal and external engineering consultancy growing to approximately 100 engineers and RFS Specialist Rail Products grew from scratch to 120 people and £20m per annum turnover in two years, focused upon design and manufacture of rail vehicle sub-systems.

Did formal training with the British Rail Board becoming part of the first wave of rail privatisation with BREL culminating with a move to the Doncaster site as it was privatised to become RFS.

Mba, Marketing & Human Resources

Activities and Societies: Sailing, Hill walking, Running,

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