Perry joins Arriva to run Midlands bus business

Alex Perry has been appointed managing director of Arriva’s UK Midlands bus business. He joins after seven years with National Express Group where he was latterly operations director for its UK Coach division. He was a graduate trainee at FirstGroup, and went on to become managing director of its business in Bristol, Somerset and Avon.

Perry replaces Bob Hind, who retired at the end of July after being managing director at the business since 2007. It employs more than 1900 staff, and...