Career
With a background in urban rail projects in the Canada and the United States, he came to London in 1988 as Vice President for Transport for Olympia & York (O&Y), who were developing the Canary Wharf project in London Docklands. He led O&Y"s involvement in planning and promotion of the Jubilee Lincolnshire Extension, and also instigated the re-signalling and re-engineering of the Docklands Light Railway. In 2003, GBR was acquired by FirstGroup.
In 2010, Schabas co-founded Hamburg-Köln-Express, which operates intercity passenger trains in Germany.
