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Highways England appoints Janette Beinart as non-exec director

Highways England has appointed a data specialist to advise the organisation, which manages England’s major roads. Janette Beinart, former interim chief information officer at investment business M&G Prudential, will join as a non-executive director. Colin Matthews, Highways England’s chairman, says: “Janette’s extensive knowledge and experience of applying big data and digitalisation to a changing business landscape will be tremendously valuable as we plan for the future and developments which can transfo
January 28, 2019 Read time: 1 min

8101 Highways England has appointed a data specialist to advise the organisation, which manages England’s major roads.

Janette Beinart, former interim chief information officer at investment business M&G Prudential, will join as a non-executive director.

Colin Matthews, Highways England’s chairman, says: “Janette’s extensive knowledge and experience of applying big data and digitalisation to a changing business landscape will be tremendously valuable as we plan for the future and developments which can transform our roads.”

Beinart has also worked at Shell International for 35 years, a career in which she became the company’s upstream chief information officer.

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