Ignacio Garat
Group Chief Executive Officer
Board of Directors
- Helen Weir
- Ignacio Garat
- James Stamp
- Jorge Cosmen
- Matthew Crummack
- Ana De Pro Gonzalo
- Carolyn Flowers
- Karen Geary
- Mike McKeon
Group Executive
- Ignacio Garat
- James Stamp
- Francisco Iglesias
- Gary Waits
- Tom Stables
- Alison Forster
- Kevin Gale
- Karen Myers
- Emer McNally
- Simon Callander

APPOINTED
November 2020
COMMITTEES
None
Experience:
Ignacio has more than 27 years’ strategic, commercial, operational and business transformation experience in the freight and logistics industry. Previous roles include CEO Spain & Portugal and CEO Brazil at TNT and Senior Vice President for Southern Europe, France and Benelux at FedEx. He has a track record of leading international, complex, operational businesses to achieve clear strategic purposes, adopting an inclusive management culture in doing so aided by his focus on people.
Ignacio has a degree in international business from the American University of Paris and a postgraduate diploma in management and business studies from the University of Warwick.
Key strengths in support of the Company’s strategy:
- Provides strategic and operational leadership for all five of the customer propositions comprised in the Evolve strategy, leveraging his previous management experience of delivering operational transformation and his commercial acumen to exploit new and profitable growth opportunities
- Champions all six of the desired stakeholder outcomes of the Evolve strategy, including by maintaining a dedicated focus on the Company being the safest and most reliable passenger transport operator, and having the most satisfied customers, including through prioritising the digital agenda and driving the Group’s focus on being an environmental leader and achieving its wider sustainability ambitions
- Drives culture transformation fostering a strong sense of purpose, including by empowering people and developing talent, advancing the Company’s ambition to be the employer of choice within passenger transport
Current external appointments:
- None
Business model
We believe that the Group has created a number of value drivers that differentiate us from our peers as a leading operator in this critical sector.
What we do
National Express Group is a leading international public transport operator, diversified internationally and by business area.