Executive has faced increasing criticism over his role on railway debacle
Former Crossrail boss Andrew Wolstenholme has quit BAE Systems after just 12 months at the defence giant.
According to , a spokesman for BAE confirmed that Wolstenholme had left last month for 鈥減ersonal reasons鈥� but declined to provide further details.
Wolstenholme joined BAE as group managing director for maritime and land in the UK in May last year, confirming the move within weeks of leaving the top job at Crossrail in March 2018.
When he left Crossrail, the project was still being described as 鈥渙n time and on budget鈥�.
But since then the scheme has required an extra 拢2.8bn of public money and will now not open until March 2021 鈥� more than two years after it was supposed to.
Wolstenholme has been increasingly dragged into the firing line over the debacle having been required to appear in front of various inquiries demanding to know what has gone wrong.
He told the Public Accounts Committee (pictured), last mont