Barhale has announced its new chief executive will be Martin Brown. Joining from Keltbray, Brown will take over from Julian Ripley who has led Barhale on an interim basis since June 2020. With more than 29 years’ experience Brown has spent much of his career managing rail projects. He joins Barhale after nine years as managing director of Keltbray’s UK rail infrastructure business. Prior to that he operated as a project director for Balfour Beatty on a number of high-profile rail and infrastructure projects. Barhale chairman Dennis Curran said that Brown brings with him extensive industry expertise and outstanding experience of running large civils and infrastructure businesses.