{"id":675834,"date":"2026-01-05T17:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675834\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:09:12","slug":"uk-dft-operator-appoints-chief-information-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675834\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: DfT Operator Appoints Chief Information Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Robinson has officially been appointed as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of DfT Operator (DFTO) \u2013 the government body responsible for bringing all privately-owned train operators into public ownership in Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson will handle the lead of DFTO\u2019s digital, data and cybersecurity strategy, as well as provide a strategic overview across all train operators in public ownership.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16927496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/97e57c97810f4acb8be10ffcf8cb12f8.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Robinson, a man\" width=\"962\" height=\"600\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Robinson will be responsible for the DFTO\u2019s digital, data and cybersecurity strategy<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Department for Transport Operator<\/p>\n<p>Following time as director of technology at the Ministry of Justice; Robinson will look to ensure that the new, publicly owned network is sufficiently supported by forward-looking technologies, securing a number of systems ahead of the creation of Great British Railways (GBR).<\/p>\n<p>Robinson has also held senior roles at Cubic Corporation and Red Bee Media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"article__quote\"><p>Mark Robinson said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__quote-text\">I\u2019m excited to have joined DFTO at such a transformative time for the rail industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__quote-text\">My focus will be on creating a secure, data-driven and future-ready technology environment that supports the public ownership programme as the journey towards Great British Railway accelerates in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus far; six train operators have come under public ownership: c2c, Greater Anglia, LNER, Northern, Southeastern, South Western Railway and TransPennine Express; with West Midlands Trains set to join the DFTO from Sunday 01 February.<\/p>\n<p>    \t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Robinson has officially been appointed as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of DfT Operator (DFTO) \u2013 the government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,27157,205426,393,4884,57397,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-675834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-department-for-transport","11":"tag-dfto","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-great-british-railways","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115843601009027874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}