Alan Foster
Biography
Alan Foster joined HS2 as Chief Financial Officer in July 2022.
He is a member of both the Executive Team and the HS2 Board.
As Chief Financial Officer Alan is responsible for a wide range of functional teams, including Finance, Procurement, Legal, Sponsorship, Programme Controls, Land & Property and IT, focused on enabling the business and our supply chain to deliver on budget and to schedule.
Previously, Alan has been Group CFO of a premium listed construction company and spent over 20 years at National Grid plc in a broad range of Finance and Commercial leadership roles both in the UK & US. Alan was on the Board of National Grid Electricity Transmission plc and National Grid Gas plc as UK CFO from 2016-2020.
His early career was with British Sugar plc and a FMCG business, building his career working in Finance, Procurement and Commercial roles. Alan has a degree in Mathematics and its Application and is a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA) and a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS).
Chief Financial Officer
The CFO is responsible for a wide range of functional teams, including Finance, Legal, Sponsorship, Programme Controls and IT, helping them succeed in collectively enabling the business and our supply chain to deliver on budget and to schedule.