Stagecoach appoints new UK Managing Director

Stagecoach, Britain’s biggest bus, coach and tram operator, today (1 October 2020) announced the appointment of Carla Stockton-Jones as its new UK Managing Director.

Carla becomes the first woman to head a major private sector multi-modal public transport operation in the UK and will report directly to Stagecoach Chief Executive Martin Griffiths.

The appointment, effective from 1 October 2020, follows a thorough competitive process involving internal and external candidates over a number of months. She succeeds Mark Threapleton, who retired this summer.

Carla will be responsible for a business with 24,000 people, more than 8,000 buses, coaches and trams and an annual turnover of around £1.3billion.

Stagecoach connects communities in hundreds of locations across the UK, from Orkney in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, to Devon in the south-west of England.

The company and its services underpin more than £1.6billion in economic value to the country’s economy each year, as well as supporting 10,000 jobs in the supply chain and around 1 in 1,000 jobs across the UK*.

Carla joined Stagecoach in February 2020 as Regional Director South of England after holding senior positions with Sky since 2012 as Director of Home Service and previously Director of Retail. She has sales and service experience across a range of sectors, including fast-moving consumer goods, media and technology.

Since July 2020, Carla has been Interim UK Managing Director and has been leading Stagecoach’s business transformation programme and Covid-19 recovery plans, including engagement with the Department for Transport around the sector’s transition out of the pandemic.