Go-Ahead FD Nick Swift has made a habit of being in the right places at the right time, writes Penny Sukhraj.

For the first time in 25 years of working in the finance function, Nick Swift applied for a job – that of group finance director of the Go-Ahead group – in March 2007. Up to that crucial point (when he was group finance manager of building supplier Hanson), jobs simply happened to him – a case of being in the right place at the right time.

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