19. Les Warneford, Managing Director, Stagecoach UK Bus

Low profile bus boss

While Stagecoach Chief Executive Brian Souter enjoys the limelight, Les Warnefield, the Managing Director of the group’s UK bus division, prefers to maintain a low profile. If there is a new product to be launched it is Souter that has his picture taken next to it. Transit still does not have a single photograph of Warneford in its extensive archive!

Warneford is, however, a highly respected busman. He joined Stagecoach in 1993 when bus company Grimsby-Cleethorpes Transport, where he was...