Anton Valk

Since January 2001 Anton is responsible for NedRailways’ international expansion in the UK, Germany and Czech Republic as Chief Executive/ Chairman. He has more than 20 years experience in management with a particular focus on marketing, sales and business development.
During these years he was senior vice president marketing & sales of the international telecommunication division of KPN, Dutch Telecom. His main tasks were to formating and managing overseas offices. Early 1999 he became board member of NedTrain, the Rolling Stock and Maintenance company of NS.
Anton has an engineering degree from Delft University of Technology and an Executive MBA from Nijenrode University..

 

Nick Brown

Nick is Chief Executive Serco Integrated Transport & Middle East.
With a career spanning over 25 years in the transport industry,
Nick joined British Rail in operational management with an MA in Economic Geography from Cambridge University.
His career has encompassed a range of front-line managerial and commercial posts both before and after privatisation. 
From 1997 he was Managing Director of Midland Mainline and Central Trains and then Chief Executive of the National Express Group Bus Division.  He was subsequently Managing Director of Scotrail and Gatwick Express and then Divisional Director for National Express's Northern Trains Division.
He has also completed advanced management training and development at Henley Management Centre and INSEAD. Within Serco Nick oversees the Northern and Merseyrail Joint Venture Companies in addition to Serco Rail Operations and Serco Rail Property. He is a non-executive Director of Serco's Integrated Services Division and holds accountability for Corporate Social Responsibility within Serco Integrated Transport.

 

Dominic Booth

Dominic joined NedRailways in January 2007 in the newly created role of Managing Director for the UK. Following our successful expansion into Continental Europe, Dominic was made Chief Operating Officer for the Group earlier this year.
Dominic has specific responsibility for overseeing all operations in the UK and abroad, and he also continues to play an important role in the development of new business opportunities in the UK. Dominic chairs the operations board for Abellio London, and NedRailways’s two train operating companies, Merseyrail and Northern Rail.
Dominic has had a fast-track career within the UK rail industry. He was involved in the restructuring of some of the early BR Shadow Franchises which were created prior to privatisation, and Dominic was then recruited by Connex Transport to head up its operations team at the South Eastern and South Central franchises. He was subsequently head hunted by Prism Rail as Managing Director of their Wales & West franchise, which was later acquired by National Express Group (NEG). 
At NEG, Dominic held a number of Managing Director positions, which included a period in charge of London Lines in which he ran all three of NEG’s London commuter train operators. He was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive of the NEG trains division before joining NedRailways.

 

Bart Schmeink

Bart Schmeink brings has background in rail passenger and freight operations and also rail infrastructure management in the Netherlands.
Bart started his career at the Dutch Department for Transport, where one of his responsibilities was as an adviser on the European proposals for the liberalisation of national rail networks.
He joined the management team of Railion, the Dutch freight operator, where he was responsible for the delivery of an efficiency programme which reduced costs in the business by without loss of performance or capacity.
This was followed by a move to ProRail, the Dutch equivalent of Network Rail, where he became Managing Director of Infrastructure Management with responsibility for the functional performance of the infrastructure of the Dutch national railway network. His primary role at that time was to achieve higher network performance against lower costs, while improving the infrastructure performance in line with Government requirements.
Bart joins Serco-NedRailways in November 2007 as Managing Director, Merseyrail.

 

 Ian Bevan

Ian has been with Northern Rail as Finance Director since the start of the franchise. He joined from GNER where he was Chief Financial Officer and was promoted to Deputy Managing Director of Northern at the start of 2008.

Ian trained in the chemical industry and held various roles in both the health care and IT sectors. He joined the bus industry in 1986 as Finance Director of Lancaster City Transport later moving on to Greater Manchester Buses where he led the employee buy out of GM Buses North. He manages to combine his passion for rail and cycling with an ambition to cycle all the former rail paths now converted to cycle routes.