Trainline appoints director
TheTrainline has appointed Jeremy Acklam in the newly created position of business development director.
He will be responsibly for identifying additional business and revenue streams for TheTrainline, which includes the development of innovative ticketing solutions for business and leisure customers.
Acklam joins from ATOS Origin where he provided strategic consultancy to the Community of European Railways & International Union of Railways on the European Rail Industry
Telematics Regulation.
Before that he was IT director of Virgin Rail, where he was part of the original team that launched TheTrainline in 1999.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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