SWARCO restructures APT Group of Companies

Sean Dunstan promoted as Dermot Murphy retires

Sean Dunstan

Sean Dunstan

Pete Brown

Pete Brown

Austrian traffic technology group SWARCO has announced a series of promotions and appointments as part of a restructuring of the UK’s APT Group. SWARCO purchased 100% of the shares of the APT Group in May 2014.

SWARCO has now created a new Parking and E-mobility division comprising APT SkiData, Veri-park, Evolt and APT Security Systems. The restructure follows the retirement of Dermot Murphy, chief executive of the APT Group, after almost 28 years with the business. Murphy will retain a role within the group as non-executive director.

The new division is to be led by Sean Dunstan, the former managing director of APT SkiData, who now assumes a much wider group role.

Dunstan’s place as managing director of APT SkiData  being taken by Peter Brown, who joins the group from Securitas, where he was head of regional technical directors. Brown started his career in the retail industry in 1993, moved into the security sector with Stanley Security Solutions in 2005, before joining Securitas in 2014.

SWARCO Traffic, the SWARCO subsidiary in the UK, is being expanded to include the SignPost Solutions business to create a new Traffic Management and Control division based in Richmond, Yorkshire. This new division is led by managing director Jeremy Cowling.