Suzanne Wise
General counsel and company secretary
Network Rail
Suzanne Wise joined Network Rail as general counsel earlier in January 2012.
In her current role, she is responsible for more than 30 staff in the legal services function at Network Rail and she is also a member of its executive committee, chairing its risk review group. Wise is leading the review of Network Rail’s panel firms: ‘It is over three years since Network Rail last undertook a panel review and I expect that the new panel will be in place by no later than the start of our next financial year in April 2013.’
Firms invited to tender for new panel: Addleshaw Goddard, Berrymans Lace Mawer, Bircham Dyson Bell, Bond Dickinson, Clifford Chance, Eversheds, Kennedys, Maclay Murray & Spens, Macroberts, Schofield Sweeney, Simmons & Simmons, Winckworth Sherwood
2012–present: General counsel and company secretary, Network Rail
2008–11: General counsel, Premier Foods
2000-07: Group head of legal, Gallaher Group