Martin Ballinger

Martin Andrew Stanley Ballinger (19 November 1943 – 28 February 2007) was one of the founders of Go-Ahead Group, one of the United Kingdom's largest transport businesses. He lived at Bolam Hall in Northumberland.[1] He died in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2007 and is buried at Bolam.[1]

Career

Born in Peterborough and educated at the Salesian School at Chertsey and Imperial College, London, Martin Ballinger qualified as a management accountant while working at the National Bus Company.[1] He became a General Manager there in 1982.[1] On the privatisation of the National Bus Company in 1987 he founded Go-Ahead Group and, as its first Chief Executive, built it into one of the United Kingdom's largest transport businesses.[1] He retired from Go-Ahead Group in 2004.[2]

In retirement he became Chairman of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust and Chairman of Northgate.[1]

Family

In 1968 he married Diana Susan Edgoose and together they went on to have a daughter, and then a son.[1]

gollark: Interesting fact; seawater contains 3µg/L of uranium. If mages can function as sieves and process large quantities of seawater, [REDACTED].
gollark: Pulling gold from a few km underground is about as energy-intensive as firing bullets or dropping 100kg weights on people's heads from 50m up, which somehow people don't do?
gollark: There isn't just gold *everywhere* underground.
gollark: Was it just a really gold-rich area for some reason?
gollark: How do you even *get* pure gold from arbitrary ground locations, in significant quantities?

References
  1. Who's Who 2003
  2. Go Ahead Chief's Defiant Farewell The Guardian 27 May 2004


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