What Happened?
Cincinnati, OH-based FirstGroup America appointed Chris Boult as Chief Information Officer.
About the Company
FirstGroup America, a subsidiary of FirstGroup plc, is North America`s largest provider of transportation services, employing nearly 100,000 throughout 49 states, nine Canadian provinces and two U.S. territories. To give a sense of scope; if one were to add up all of the passengers that the top four airlines transport throughout the world every year, it wouldn`t come close to matching how many passengers we serve annually at FirstGroup America! Our student transportation company, First Student, safely transports 6 million children to and from school every day. First Transit provides contract management and operates transit systems for government agencies, municipal organizations and private companies while First Vehicle Services provides fleet maintenance for private and public sector customers. Greyhound, the only provider of national scheduled inter-city bus service, is our most iconic brand carrying 19.8 million customers every year covering more than 5.7 billion passenger miles!
About the Person
Chris Boult is an executive leader with a passion for driving business innovation and organization excellence. He recently rejoined Greyhound Lines, Inc. as the chief information officer. Just prior to that, Boult was vice president of infrastructure and data services at Sabre Holdings. Before Sabre, he was managing partner and CTO at ProcureVision. Until 2010, Boult was senior vice president and CIO of First Group America. There, he partnered with the CEO to lead the rejuvenation of the Greyhound brand with a focus on bringing new technology to the customer experience. This included the installation of wifi on the entire fleet, and installation of a GPS and engine management system to provide operations with real-time tracking and control capabilities across the whole fleet. Prior to that, Boult was a partner within the retail, travel and transportation practices at Accenture. At Accenture, he led major initiatives both on the applications and infrastructure side. This included the sale and delivery of an offshore middleware support model. He also led the global PeopleSoft Financials rollout for a major staffing company. Chris earned a degree in Italian and German at the University of Lancaster in the U.K.
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