| Journal: TWUK | Section: |
| Title: | Issue Date: 16/10/00 |
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Bowden-Doyle quits trainline.com
TRAINLINE.COM chief operating officer Richard Bowden-Doyle has quit the company after just four months.
The former Thomson Holidays managing director said he couldn’t handle working for such a small team or not being the boss any more.
Bowden-Doyle, who reported to chief executive Alan Meekings, said:”Trainline.com is a great business with tremendous potential for the future. However, I have found making the transition from a large complex group to a small business much more difficult than I had anticipated.
“Coupled with the challenge of moving from being number one to number two, it has led me to consider that it will be better for everyone if I acknowledge that things are not going to work for me.”
When he took up the post, Bowden-Doyle said he was enjoying the prospect of working with a dozen people instead of being in charge of 10,000 staff as he was at Thomson (Travel Weekly June 12).
Meekings said trainline.com would appoint a commercial director in his place and Bowden-Doyle would support the business through the transition process.