Senior appointments: Andrew Smith, Managing Director, Bournemouth Transport (centre) with (left) Phil Pannell, Service Delivery Director, and Paul Wren, Commercial Director.
Two senior executives described as “public transport professionals to their core” have joined Yellow Buses as directors.
Phil Pannell and Paul Wren have been appointed as Service Delivery Director and Commercial Director, respectively, of Bournemouth Transport Limited (BTL).
Phil was previously Engineering Director with Abellio, responsible for six garages in London and Surrey and about 790 vehicles and 62 ferry vehicles.
Other posts in a 38-year career include 17 years as an engineering manager with First Group, latterly as Engineering Director of First East England.
He started in the bus industry in 1978 as an apprentice fitter at Western National.
Paul has spent 26 years in public transport, working at senior level in the UK, France, Canada and the Middle East.
Previous posts have included Commercial Manager of Docklands Light Railway; Managing Director of Transdev Canada and General Manager Abu Dhabi of Serco Middle East.
In 2005, while serving as Business Development Director of Transdev plc, Paul led the acquisition of Bournemouth Transport. BTL is now part of RATP Group, the world’s fifth largest public transport provider.
Andrew Smith, BTL’s Managing Director, said: “Phil and Paul are public transport professionals to their core and we’re delighted to welcome them to Yellow Buses.
“We have exciting plans for the future of Bournemouth Transport Ltd. I look forward to working closely with Phil, Paul and the rest of the team on bringing these to fruition.”
Yellow Buses operates a fleet of 131 buses and 18 coaches with a staff of 430.
It carries just under 15m passengers a year with its vehicles operating nearly five million miles across the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and East Dorset area.
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About Yellow Buses:
Yellow Buses operates a fleet of 131 buses and 18 coaches with a staff of 430. It carries just under 15m passengers a year with its vehicles operating nearly five million miles across the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and East Dorset area. Yellow Buses is part of RATP Group, the world’s fifth largest public transport provider.
About RATP Dev:
RATP Dev is the RATP Group subsidiary established in 2002 to export the group’s operation and maintenance know-how outside the historic network operated by RATP in the Paris region. RATP Dev now operates in 14 countries on four continents (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the USA, Brazil, India, China, South Korea and the Philippines). In 2015, RATP Dev is scheduled to generate revenue exceeding €1 billion.
About RATP Group:
With nearly 14 million daily passengers worldwide, RATP Group is the fifth largest urban transport operator in the world. With its 14 metro lines (including two driverless lines), two regional express rail lines, seven tramway lines and 350 bus lines, the multimodal network operated by RATP in the Paris region is the largest in the world to be managed by a single company.
RATP Group can devise, design and implement infrastructure development projects, operate and maintain networks irrespective of the mode of transport (metro, regional train, tramway and bus) and develop innovative services to promote mobility (including passenger information, remote ticketing, pricing and customer marketing). The automation of Paris metro line 1, which was completed at the end of 2012 as a world first, once again demonstrated the ability of RATP Group to implement particularly complex projects.
RATP Group exports its know-how all over the world; in engineering through Systra, its subsidiary jointly owned with SNCF, in operations and maintenance via its RATP Dev subsidiary and in innovative services to promote mobility through its IXXI subsidiary.
RATP Group has a workforce of nearly 60,000 employees worldwide and in 2013 generated revenue of €5.14 billion.
