14) Moya Greene
Title: Chief executive officer, Royal Mail
The Motor Transport Top 100 employ more than 331,690 people across the country. However, Royal Mail’s 143,000 employees account for 43.1% of that total. Or in other words, no one in road transport is responsible for more jobs in this industry than Greene.
This means that there is a lot on the line when it comes to Greene modernising the Royal Mail – and learning to live with diminishing letter volumes while growing in parcel volumes. Now privatised, but hamstrung with the notion of universal service (essentially forcing unprofitable business onto its books), Greene gets that the Royal Mail needs to deliver product innovations and service improvements in order to keep pace with booming B2C operators such as DPD.
And if there was ever a business that was reliant on the Christmas peak Royal Mail is it. Keeping that peak profitable will mean everything to its future on the Stock Exchange.
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