 haydn is a cambridge graduate in mathematics and a chartered electrical engineer he retired as chairman of swiss leasing company european loc pool this year and also retired in 2023 as the chairman of the railway children charity after twelve years in the post he remains involved in a number of charities and has established a charitable trust haydn is currently chairman of haleman limited haydn was chief executive of the angel trains group from 1999 to 2008 when the business was sold by rbs he went on to run the now independent european arm of the group alpha trains until 2010 he was previously on the board of de la rue plc as managing director of the cash systems division and with sony europe where he held the positions of group managing director of sonys uk business and then vice president of sony europe responsible for all of sonys broadcast and professional equipment activities across europe africa and the middle east prior to sony he ran racal electronics worldwide offshore navigation systems business following 10 years with schlumberger in the oil industry haydn has been a member of several uk rail industry bodies including chairman of the railway industry association from 2004 to 2006 chairman of the railway sector advisory group from 2006 to 2009 and chairman of the rail innovation awards 