Keolis President and CEO David Scorey to Step Down

Keolis North America has announced that David Scorey will step down as president and CEO effective Dec. 31. Current president and chief operating officer Brad Thomas will assume the role of CEO. Scorey will join the Keolis North America board as a non-executive director, where he will advise Keolis senior leadership team across the region as well as the global leadership team in Paris.

Scorey has served the public transportation industry for 42 years, beginning as a mechanical engineer and moving into various managerial positions. In 2016, he joined Keolis Commuter Services as general manager and oversaw record ridership growth, expanded train service, modernized schedules, and significant improvements to reliability and performance. In 2021, he was appointed to the position of regional CEO for North America. Before Keolis, Scorey was with Southern Railway in the U.K. for 12 years.

Thomas will assume the role of Keolis president and CEO effective Jan. 1. He joined the organization earlier in 2024 after previously serving as CEO of First Transit. Before that, he was president-coach USA transit services for Stagecoach Group plc. Thomas served as chair of the board for the North American Transit Alliance from 2020-2023 and currently sits on the board of the National Safety Council. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Intermodal Transportation Institute, University of Denver, from 2014-2016.