
Stuart Kelly has been appointed as group general counsel and company secretary at Network Rail, following the departure of Suzanne Wise, who left the rail company in March to take a non-legal role at Japan Tobacco International (JTI) as a senior vice-president for corporate development.
Kelly has served as deputy group GC at Network Rail since June 2015, when he returned to the company from FTSE 100 water company Severn Trent, where he also held the position of deputy GC. He had previously been a commercial legal adviser for Network Rail for more than four years before joining Severn Trent.