Tilo Franz MIEAust CPEng

Tilo Franz was the Executive Regional Director of DB Engineering and Consulting in Australia and New Zealand before he joined the Ricardo team in Melbourne as the Signalling and Infrastructure Lead in July 2024.

From November 2017 until November 2020 Tilo was the General Manager of the Canberra Metro Light Rail Operations and Maintenance, the operator running the Canberra Metro Light Rail Stage 1 project in the ACT. Under his leadership, the first light rail system in the ACT was launched successfully in 2019 and has been running since then at a 99.99 per cent overall reliability level.

Tilo holds a Master of Science Degree for Mechanical Engineering of design, operation and maintenance of rail vehicles from the University of Transport “Friedrich List” in Dresden, Germany where he graduated in 1991. He is also a Chartered Member of Engineers Australia.