Rachel Geliamassi has left her role as Stagecoach West Managing Director (MD) to join Great Western Railway (GWR).
Elisabeth Tasker, who retired as Stagecoach Manchester MD in 2021, has been revealed as a replacement on an interim basis.
Ms Geliamassi had been in the post since April 2021 after seven years as Operations Director and brings to an end 16 years in total with Stagecoach. She will become Customer Services Director for GWR from April.
She writes on LinkedIn: “My bus journey comes to a fabulous end. Buses have officially been a part of my life for 16 years. Unofficially, for 42 years, because my dad was a Stagecoach bus driver and my mum a conductress, turned ‘engineering trimmer’. So everything has been about buses, forever!”
She adds: “I’m proud of the work we’ve done in West around wellbeing and support, knowing how our sector needed to embrace it at a quicker pace.”
Stagecoach Chief Operating Officer for Stagecoach Sam Greer says: “I would like to thank Rachel for her outstanding contribution and leadership during her time as Managing Director for West.
“We are also delighted to confirm that Elisabeth Tasker has been appointed to the role of Managing Director for West on an interim basis. Elisabeth previously held the role of Managing Director for our Manchester Operating Company and look forward to working with her to develop and drive the business whilst continuing to engage our teams.”
Previous to her work in Manchester, Ms Tasker had held the MD role with Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire since 2011. In announcing her retirement in the summer of 2020, she had said the COVID-19 pandemic had made her re-think priorities with regards to work and family life.
Meanwhile, Carla Stockton-Jones, who departed from her post of Stagecoach UK Managing Director in August 2023, was announced last week as new Chief Operating Officer at residential energy services company Hometree.
