The Company

At today's meeting of the BVG Supervisory Board, Thilo Sarrazin, Supervisory Board Chairman and Berlin Senator for Finance, informed the Board that the Chief Operating Officer Thomas Necker will be resigning as of 30 June of this year.

Sarrazin thanked Thomas Necker for all the work he has put in for BVG, with positive recognition for the progress and results achieved in his term as Chief Operating Officer for the company. These include modernization of the complete BVG bus fleet including pioneering hydrogen technology, as well as the renewal of the tram fleet over the next decade with the current delivery of four pre-production vehicles type Flexity.

Construction of the U55 and the start of work for extending the U5 also come under Necker's term of office, together with the new vehicle strategy for the metro and setting up a completely integrated infrastructure for optimum fulfilment of the transport assignment.

Necker was also responsible for putting BVG's security and services divisions on a sustainable basis.

Thomas Necker has been Chief Operating Officer of BVG for more than four years. Originally from Austria, he came to Germany's largest municipal local public transport company after working for the Austrian railways (ÖBB) and Alcatel Austria. Here in Berlin he was responsible for the operative divisions including the buses, metros and trams together with infrastructure.