David Hyland has had some 30 years experience of working with railways around the world and has a reputation of someone with the ability to bring the right team together. For the last 5 years he has been running Rail Personnel an international recruitment business that specialises in recruiting people for the rail industry. Prior to this he ran his own consulting business in Asia and the UK.

He has an intimate knowledge of rail activity in Australia, the UK and South East Asia and maintains contact with a large number of people working in the rail industry in these areas.

David started his career with the Australian railways in 1970 after graduating in civil engineering. After working with the New South Wales Railways for 10 years in track maintenance and in investment planning, he then worked for a number of companies in manufacturing and consulting before forming his own consulting business in 1987 to do engineering and economic feasibility studies for railways in Australia and South East Asia.

By 1997 when David sold TMG International Ltd, the UK operation of TMG, to Brown and Root he had built the UK and Hong Kong business up to one with over 100 staff. From 1997 to 1999 David was responsible for developing Brown and Root's major rail projects business in South East Asia while still running the Hong Kong practice of TMG.

In April 1999 he formed Rail Personnel a specialist international recruitment agency targeting the rail industry.

David is on the board of a number of companies in the rail industry and is a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of Permanent Way Institution, an Associate Member Institute of Railway Signal Engineers, a Member American Railway Engineering Association and a Member of the Institute of Directors in the UK.