Consortium leadership

Unparalleled delivery track record.

A project of this complexity demands a team that combines deep railway domain experience, large-scale data engineering, and proven executive-level delivery against critical national infrastructure.

Project Director
Patrick Bossert
Managing Director, Future Edge Consulting
30 yrs UK & global rail
£200m+/yr savings delivered
£1bn pilot funding secured
Director, Asset Information — Network Rail
2010 – 2014

Established a 240-strong, £75m data-to-intelligence services operation and a £500m business-change programme. Delivered safety improvements and operational savings of £200m+ per year, bringing 22,000 frontline staff into the digital age.

Digital Transformation Director — Digital Railway
2014 – 2016

Led development of the £30–40bn UK ERTMS digital operations modernisation business case — sponsored by Network Rail's CEO, the DfT, and rail operators. Secured £1bn of pilot-scheme funding as the first phase of the UK's Infrastructure Plan.

Standards governance
Board roles

Served on the Board of the Institute of Asset Management (UK); helped transition British PAS 55 into the global ISO 55000 standard; contributed to ISO 19650 digital-twin standards.

Executive GM Digital & Transformation — Ausgrid
Secondment

Executive secondment working in close conjunction with EY — the relationship and delivery model that underpins this consortium.

In-conjunction delivery partner
EY

World-class consulting scale, data-science resources, and transport infrastructure depth. Previously delivered alongside Patrick on national-scale digital transformation.

  • Graph database & vision-language engineering
    Advanced graph DB engineers plus hybrid vision-language model specialists — leveraging automated CAD-to-graph extraction tools such as C-TAI to ingest the existing signalling estate at speed.
  • Programme management & assurance
    Robust project management, cyber-security compliance, and safe data-governance pipelines aligned with national-security and FOI requirements.
  • Rail domain & change delivery
    Deep transport-infrastructure consulting practice. Tested partnership model with Future Edge Consulting on prior critical-infrastructure programmes.