Rob Carr BEng MSc CEng MRINA

Rob is currently the Routeway Delivery Director at Crossrail. A Chartered Naval Architect, Rob spent 17 years in Shipbuilding before joining Network Rail in 2007. From delivering the Cambrian ETCS pilot (commissioned in 2011), Rob has spent time delivering signalling & electrification projects for NR, running the PMO on Thameslink, as Area South Programme Director on High Speed 2 before joining Crossrail via Nichols & Transcend in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 crisis.

Robs first job was to write the Crossrail Recovery Strategy, pulling together all the plans and strategies into a cohesive document to support the Delivery Control Schedule that was presented to the Board in August 2020. On CRL achieving Trial Running on time to the revised schedule, Rob went on to lead the Programme Management Office from mid 2021 to May 2022 before taking on his current role.

Rob is accountable for delivering the final routeway upgrades before Crossrail demobilizes at the end of May 2023.

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Rachel McLean FCIMA MCIPFA - Transport for London

Rachel McLean was appointed TfL’s Chief Finance Officer (CFO) in October 2022. She is responsible for the overall TfL Budget, funding and business enabling processes. She will drive cost efficiency across the entire organisation, including through supply chain transformation.

Rachel was previously the CFO for Crossrail and Finance Director for Operations, having re-joined TfL in January 2020 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government where she was a Board Member and the Director General – Chief Financial Officer. She has also been the Director of Planning, Performance and Finance at HMRC Customer Services.

Rachel has a wealth of experience in both the private and public sectors and previously worked for TfL for nine years in senior asset management and finance roles. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.

She is also a non-Executive Board member and Chair of the Audit & Risk Assurance Committee at Sellafield Ltd.

Victor Fornes - Turner & Townsend

Victor is a Project Director in Turner & Townsend. He was Finance Director (acting) for Crossrail during the final handover and transition stage of the Programme. He started in Crossrail in 2017 as Lead Cost Engineer for Farringdon station and in 2019 joined the central Commercial and Finance teams to support the development of the cost estimate for the recovery phase of the Programme, the exercise that led to the production of the cost estimate that would remain valid until completion.

Prior to Crossrail, Victor worked in various Programme Controls roles at different multibillion pound programmes, mainly in mining industry in Chile. Victor is an engineer by background, with a Masters in Management.

Rob Scopes BEng CEng MICE - Deloitte

Rob is a partner in Deloitte and leads the Major Programmes practice in the Public Sector. He has over 30 years experience having qualified and worked in industry as a Civil Engineer.  Rob lead the Deloitte team in the project recovery period between January 2019 and early 2021 being seconded to Crossrail for part of that time as Programme Controls Director.

Previously Rob has worked on HS2, the Palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal Programme, Tideway and a wide range of other major programmes and was a faculty member of the Cabinet Office’s Major Projects Leadership Academy for a number of years.

Sophie Wilkinson MEng - Crossrail Ltd

Sophie Wilkinson is the Head of Crossrail Closeout & Transition, accountable for delivering the closeout and transition programme and leading a team who provide the programme controls function, management of CRL workforce plan and completion of the learning legacy. The closeout programme has been delivered in multiple phases, varying in impact from the dissolution of the CRL Executive and CEO’s role to small team transitions to TfL; and currently the full and final closeout of the CRL programme. Sophie joined Crossrail in July 2020 from Transport for London, where she started her career as a project management graduate, subsequently moving around the business in construction and change project management.

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