Chris Esslin-Peard Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Worthing, Uk

Durrington, Sussex

London, United Kingdom

I am an expert in regulation of network utilities. My current clients are water and water and sewerage companies and their investors, across a wide range of financial, economic and strategy issues. The water industry in the UK is experiencing a high rate of change with retail market opening complete and the next price review ramping up. KPMG helps its clients to respond in the right way to the changes.

Managing a major change project that is redesigning the way Ofwat uses its price regulation, to ensure the way Ofwat regulates the water industry in England and Wales is fit for purpose for decades to come.It requires the management of a large virtual team at Ofwat, and management of a complex group of influential external stakeholders.Now working on compliance and regulatory enforcement.Conference speeches describing Future Price Limits at CCWI September 2011, CIWEM December 2011 and Infrastructure Asset Management, Marketforce, September 2012.

Responsible for managing key parts of the relationship between BT and Ofcom, its regulator. Represented BT at two Competition Commission hearings on appeals to price control decisions. Management of regulatory and financial risk, with a focus on wholesale activities. Responsible for key parts of the Openreach submissions for its first price controls, including the cost of capital.

London Uk

Responsible for the reporting and management of £5 billion of annual revenue for Openreach, including responsibility for billing, credit management and pricing governance. Ensured compliance with a number of Openreach's undertakings given to the regulator on its creation.

London, Uk

Responsible for the production and reporting of the wholesale regulatory accounts, including current cost and incremental cost reporting. Management of important aspects of BT Wholesale's case for successive price control reviews including cost modelling and efficiency.

London, United Kingdom

Regulatory finance input into numerous decisions, including wholesale and retail price controls, mergers and transfer pricing.

Capital spending appraisals, including business cases for new gas power stations, and major capex programmes at existing coal-fired stations, financial analysis for key business decisions and managing the capital inputs into the strategic plan.

Financial planning, strategic planning, financial analysis for business development including acquisitions (largest completed transaction: £50m oil and gas investment) Buy-side equity analyst for a A$50m portfolio of mining investments, based in Sydney, Australia.

Masters In Finance, Finance, Distinction

A full time course peered with LBS's MBA degree, but for those wishing to focus solely on finance. It provides a comprehensive training.

Ba, Physics, Second Class Honours