6. Iain Coucher

Chief Executive, Network Rail

Iain Coucher

Iain Coucher

Why is he on the list?

Network Rail owns and operates Britain's rail infrastructure. It employs 35,000 people across 850 sites and handles annual revenues of £6.1bn.

What kind of year has he had?

Network Rail has made progress in reducing its maintenance bill, but over a quarter of renewal work has been deferred to allow new processes to be developed to reduce costs. New chairman Rick Haythornthwaite has criticised the company for paying too little attention to passengers' and operators'...