New CEO for KiwiRail is the old one: Peter Reidy

New CEO for KiwiRail is the old one: Peter Reidy
Back on track - Peter Reidy returns to KiwiRail (Image: supplied)
Pattrick Smellie
Peter Reidy, the chief executive who left KiwiRail because he couldn’t work with his recently departed predecessor, Greg Miller, is returning to run the state-owned rail operator now that Miller has gone.Highly respected during his previous tenure between February 2014 and October 2018, Reidy resigned from KiwiRail shortly before the appointment of former Toll Holdings senior executive Greg Miller as chair was confirmed in a process heavily influenced by the NZ First party.Multiple sources have confirmed to BusinessDesk that Reidy, curren...

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