Susan Cooklin

Susan Cooklin is the Managing Director of Route Services at Network Rail running a portfolio of 60 services and leading a directorate of 5,000 staff. Over the last 15 years she has held senior executive roles in both IT and business operations within FTSE top 20 companies in the UK, specialising in transformational change. She has worked at Board level for over 8 years with Non-Executive Director positions on the Board of Leeds Beckett University and Leeds Building Society. She is currently Chair of Network Rail Consulting Limited. Susan was listed by Company Weekly as the seventh most influential woman in UK IT. From 2013 – 2017 she ran the Could IT Be You campaign to raise awareness of IT as a career for young women.