Paul joined the Trust in October 2020 with almost forty years senior leadership experience gained in an Executive career in the transport sector and six and a half years as a Non Executive Director and Vice Chair of the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Paul’s other Non Executive experience has been on the board of a number of small digital start up businesses and as an external advisor to the University of Wolverhampton.
Paul’s Executive career has seen him undertake senior leadership roles in the transport sector in the UK and overseas, initially in commercial and business development roles which led to Chief Executive and Managing Director positions in major UK transport businesses. The financial and operational transformation of customer focused and highly regulated organisations have been common themes in his achievements in the sector.
As Chief Executive Paul led the iconic National Express coach business and drove the wider Groups sales and marketing strategy. In the rail industry as Managing Director he led the financial and operational turnaround of a failing high speed rail franchise. His commercial and business development experience was used at Stagecoach to design, develop and mobilise the megabus.com value travel brand and to rebalance and significantly improve the commercial profile of a major regional rail business, part of the First Group of companies.
During his time based in Paris, Paul was a co founder of the innovative mobility start up Ouibus, part of the SNCF State transport group, and now the biggest operation of its kind in France and one of the biggest in Europe.
Watching football, cricket and live music, playing golf and walking the dogs fill Paul’s leisure time.