This time on BACK amongst friends, Ian Jones interveiws Paul Lynch, Manging Director London at Stagecoach Bus and the 2024 president of the Confederation of Passenger Transport.

Starting as a graduate trainee with London Buses in 1984, Paul was promoted through a series of garage management roles in East London. By the time Stagecoach bought East London in 1994 he was District Operations Manager. Moving as General Manager to Stagecoach South in 1996, and to Stagecoach's Swedish company as Operations Director. He then became Managing Director of Stagecoach East Midlands in 2000 and performed the same role in the newly acquired Stagecoach Yorkshire business from 2006. Next was Regional Director of the northern English part of Stagecoach UK Bus in 2016, switching to the same role for London in 2017, with Wales being added in 2020.

Following Stagecoach’s most recent reorganisation and 40 years since Paul started with the organisation, he is now MD for Stagecoach London.

Listen to how Paul gained very wide experience of managing large complex organisations through times of change and difficulty, and with demanding clients. He introduced many innovations particularly in partnerships with local authorities and in commercial operation.

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