MTR Corporation Limited announced that Mr. Roger Francis Bayliss, the Capital Works Director of the Company, has informed the Company that he will retire from the Company upon completion of his service agreement with the Company immediately after 31 July 2022. Accordingly, with effect from 1 August 2022, Mr. Bayliss will cease to be the Capital Works Director and a Member of the Executive Directorate of the Company. The Company further announced that Mr. Carl Michael Devlin, currently Deputy Director ­ Capital Works of the Company, is appointed as Capital Works Director and a Member of the Executive Directorate of the Company, both to take effect from 1 August 2022.

Succeeding Mr. Bayliss as the Capital Works Director, Mr. Devlin will be responsible for leading the Capital Works Business Unit and overseeing the Company's capital works portfolio, covering new railway extensions and operations projects. Mr. Devlin (age 53) possesses extensive experience across a range of large-scale, complex and multi-disciplinary projects in different sectors including transport, rail and civil infrastructure, aviation, energy oil and gas. He has a strong project management background with solid business leadership experience and has worked successfully with international companies in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, United States of America, Canada and Japan.

Before joining the Company as Deputy Director ­ Capital Works in 2021, Mr. Devlin was General Manager, Rail & Mass Transit of Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency. Prior to that, from 2015 to 2018, he was the Executive Director of Construction for Horizon Nuclear Power in the United Kingdom and Programme Director for Transport for London, United Kingdom, from 2013 to 2015. He previously held senior leadership roles with Laing O'Rourke, BAA plc and Bechtel Infrastructure.

Mr. Devlin is a Chartered Member of Engineers Ireland. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from University College Cork in Ireland.