Executive leadership

Milena is responsible for driving Trainline’s innovation and tech vision – both in helping customers have a more seamless travel experience and helping the rail industry leverage Trainline’s platform to put rail at the heart of more journeys. Before Trainline, Milena spent 12 years at Google Play, leading the engineering teams in charge of app distribution and developer experience. Having started her career as a Software Engineer, Milena has a wealth of experience designing systems and providing technical leadership across products related to search, mobile services and software distribution.

Pete joined Trainline in 2018, bringing with him 20 years’ experience in consumer internet (15 years in the UK and five years in California). As an Economics graduate from the University of Oxford, his CV spans 11 years at eBay, where he held roles in internet marketing, analytics and finance. More recently, he was Chief Financial Officer of LADbible – the largest and fastest growing publisher of social video in the world.

Dave leads Trainline’s Product, Design and Research teams. Before joining Trainline in July 2020, he spent more than 20 years in product management leading some of today’s best known digital products. From the UK’s largest video on demand service, BBC iPlayer, to the number one global streaming service, Spotify, Dave has been at the forefront of creating simple, relevant product experiences used by customers across the world.

Champa joined Trainline in January 2021 and is responsible for two key areas: Trainline’s business travel division, which provides and supports rail booking solutions for thousands of corporate partners and global travel management companies (TMCs), and Trainline’s white label business, which leverages proprietary technology to provide some of the biggest rail companies with bespoke online platforms and mobile ticket solutions. Champa brings a wealth of experience in travel technology and leading business-to-business growth across several markets.

Before joining Trainline, Champa held the global role of Executive Vice President of Retail in Travel Channels and Managing Director EMEA at Amadeus. Prior to that she was appointed Senior Vice President of Retail Travel of Amadeus in Asia Pacific, located in Singapore. Champa has also held leadership roles in organisations such as American Express Global Business Travel, WorldPay and Cisco Systems.

James leads Trainline’s Legal and Regulatory functions and sees these functions as business enablers, encouraging his team to be integrated into the heart of the business. It is this approach that saw his team awarded Legal Department of the Year by the British Legal Awards 2018 and the Legal 500 UK Awards 2019.

Prior to joining Trainline in 2009, James spent four years in private practice at the leading UK law firm Travers Smith LLP, where he trained and qualified into the commercial, IP and IT team acting for a variety of private and listed clients in relation to commercial and regulatory matters. James is an English law qualified solicitor.

Martin is responsible for Trainline’s Government Affairs, Industry Relations and Communications functions, in all of the Company’s key markets across Europe. He joined Trainline in October 2021, bringing over 20 years’ experience in strategic communications.

Martin previously worked at Portland, the leading strategic communications consultancy, where he helped guide the growth of the company for 13 years as International Managing Director, before moving to a Senior Advisor role for a range of global brands, governments, and philanthropic and foundation clients. For over ten years in the UK government, he also advised Prime Ministers Blair and Brown in 10 Downing Street, where he was Head of Strategic Communications.

Lisa joined Trainline in February 2021 as Chief People Officer. She has more than 25 years’ experience within human resources, most of which has been spent in plc environments. She has a passion for leading the people agenda in disruptive, high-growth international businesses. For the ten years prior to joining Trainline, Lisa was the Chief People Officer in high-growth consumer-led digital businesses, most significantly at Betfair and Just Eat.

Mike joined Trainline in September 2021, bringing over 20 years’ experience of leading data teams and organisations, combining data analytics, engineering and business strategy roles. Mike spent the previous four years at Facebook as the overall Head of Data Science and Engineering for Workplace by Facebook. Prior to that he led the data and insights capability at Microsoft for the Skype consumer product and Skype for Business. He has previously held data analytics roles in AlixPartners and other consulting companies, using data to build business strategy across a range of industries.