Gautrain

Tshepo Kgobe is the Chief Executive Officer of the Gautrain Management Agency (GMA). He is a multidisciplinary engineer with more than 24 years of extensive experience in managing complex projects and operations with diverse technical requirements in infrastructure, energy and mining, working predominantly in the railway environment.

Kgobe joined the GMA in 2014 as the Senior Executive Manager responsible for the Technical Services Unit. This is his second stint on the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link Project. At the start of Gautrain, he was responsible for the engineering and project management of the trackwork subsystem. He stepped into the position of Chief Operating Officer in 2020 and has a novel commercial vision for the GMA. Over the last four years, he has been the Programme Manager for the Integrated Fare Management, the programme includes the development of a Single ticketing system, a Transport Management Centre, a Data Management Platform and an ITS communications backbone. Through this he has further grown his expertise in the technology space.

Tshepo Kgobe has been in the railway industry since the beginning of his career and although he went into consulting for a while, he ended up back in the railway sector: “You could say I have trains in my veins.”

He started his career as a civil engineer in KwaZulu-Natal and specialised in rail programme and project management. At the start of his career, he worked in the Durban region as a Perway & Facilities operations line manager. Kgobe was previously in senior engineering management at Metrorail’s head office in Perway & Structures.

He has 12 years’ experience as a director on the board of various companies, where he was responsible for business development, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), Transformation, Corporate Social Investment and Supplier Development.

Tshepo Kgobe has also practiced in the Rail industry with various international companies, including Corus Rail Consultancy in the UK. His international work experience gives him the edge to perform at a global scale.