Mihai Necolaiciuc has been appointed General Manager of Romanian infrastructure operator CFR SA in succession to Viorel Simut; he was formerly Manager of CFR’s Iasi region. Miss Anca Boagiu has taken over as Transport Minister, succeeding Traian Basescu who has become Mayor of Bucuresti.
Alexander S Misharin has been appointed Senior Vice-Minister of Railway Transport in Russia. He succeeds N I Ilyin who became the ministry’s General Representative in the Czech Republic on August 1. G S Ginsburg has been named Vice-President of the Sakhalin Railway, and Dmitri D Mozhorov becomes Vice-President of the North Caucasian Railway in Rostov-on-Don. Fyodor N Kashirski has been appointed Vice-President of the South Urals Railway in Chelyabinsk.
Sally Barrett-Williams has been appointed Chief Legal Advisor and Director of Legal Services at Britain’s Office of the Rail Regulator.
Mike Waites has been named Executive Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer of Canadian Pacific Railway.
Deputy Managing Director of South Africa’s state transport holding group Transnet Mafika Mkwanazi has been appointed Managing Director Designate; he will succeed Saki Macozoma who has decided to step down when his current contract ends in March 2001.
Antonio Lanchares Asensio has been appointed Director-General of the Operations business unit at Spanish National Railways. Mariano Palacín Calvo becomes Renfe’s Director of Corporate Communications & External Relations.
Graham Eccles has been named Executive Director, Rail Operations, at Stagecoach Holdings, and Chairman of South West Trains. He is succeeded as Managing Director of SWT by Operations Director Andrew Haines.
Hans-Rudolf Isliker is to become Director General of the International Railway Office at Switzerland’s Federal Transport Ministry. He will be succeeded as Vice-Director at the ministry by August Blunschi, with effect from November 1.
Dr W J Bukulu took over as Chief Medical Officer of Uganda Railways Corp on July 6, succeeding Dr Alex Kampikaho.
Werner Lenz has been named as Head of IT at Swiss Federal Railways with effect from October 1.
Kornelia Kneissl takes over as Head of Communications for German Railway’s Passenger businesses on September 15. Former PR officer for DB Reise & Touristik Martin Katz is to become head of Ameropa-Reisen GmbH, while the PR manager for DB Regio, Hartmut Sommer takes charge of political liaison at DB headquarters.
Jacques Baumann has been appointed Vice-Director and Head of Marketing for Zürich Transport. Anton Westreicher becomes Vice-Director and Head of Production/Operations. Both are joining VBZ from SBB’s Zürich region.
Michael Reiss takes over as Manager of Intercontainer-Interfrigo’s North-South Division in October, succeeding Pia Ljunggren.
Dr Peter Buttmann took over as President of Bombardier Transportation’s Continental Europe business unit on August 1, succeedding Dr Peter Witt, who becomes Second Deputy Chairman of DWA Deutsche Waggonbau GmbH.
Noel Travers has joined rolling stock leasing group GATX Capital Corp as Director of International Rail; he was Traction & Rolling Stock Engineer at Freightliner Ltd.
Kazuhisa Matsuda has taken over as President & CEO of Nippon Sharyo Ltd in succession to Yasuo Shimizu.
Peter Hofmann is to join the executive board of Bremer Strassenbahn AG later this year as Head of Purchasing.
On July 26 the Croatian government dismissed the board of Croatian Railways and appointed a new Chairman and six new board members. Vice Prime Minister Slavko Linic becomes Chairman of HZ. The board members are Radimir Cacic, Minister of Renewal & Development, Damir Kustrak, Vice-Minister of Finance, Mladen Poznic from the Ministry of Transport, Dr Jure Radic, former Development Minister, Dr Marko Skreb former Governor of the National Bank of Croatia, and Darko Pavicevic representing the railway trade unions. Nikola Kancijan was named Vice-Minister of Railways on the same day, following the dismissal of Marijan Klaric.
R K Thoopal has taken over as General Manager of India’s South Eastern Railway, succeeding Ravindra Nath Malhotra who has been named Member, Engineering, at the Indian Railways Board. Ajit Kishore has become General Manager of the South Central Railway following the retirement of N C Singha.
