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]