HPC Supply Chain Reporting and Insight Lead

Leading the commercial team (6 direct reports, 10 FTE in total) with responsibility for developing the European project pipeline of large-scale generation and storage assets, playing a central role in delivering growth and leading M&A activity.• Grew the distributed power project pipeline bringing 500MW of new projects to investment stage.• Progressed a range of projects from conceptual stage through to final investment decision (battery energy storage systems and flexible gas peaking) including consenting, planning, EPC and business case.• Significant M&A experience (buy and sell side) – notably part of the core deal team for Centrica’s £318m 2GW CCGT disposal, negotiating the Transitional Services Agreement and leading separation and completion activity.• Managed the commercial elements of Centrica’s innovative £17m Cornwall Local Energy Market project.• Go to expert for revenue markets in the UK, Ireland and Europe including capacity market, energy market, balancing mechanism and ancillary services.• Member of the Distributed Power leadership team responsible for the management of the power business (cost base, governance, operational).

Led the Project Management Office activity including coordination of integration activity, organisation design and implementation to establish Distributed Energy and Power business.• Engaged with the executive team to develop the organisation design, key accountabilities, processes and decisions to deliver the target operating model design.• Coordinated integration of acquisition of ENER-G Cogen post £150m acquisition to ensure appropriate day one governance and a successful takeover of operations.

Led the coordination and delivery of Centrica’s response to the Competition and Market Authority’s critical industry wide regulatory investigation in to the energy market. The project was recognised as having significant importance by the Centrica Board having secured a positive outcome for the power and trading businesses.• Developed Centrica's position and drafted responses to the provisional findings and remedies papers including strategic positioning and business rationale against the key accusations.• Used my broad business network and interpersonal skills to influence stakeholders in order to respond efficiently and in a timely manner to information requests.• Worked under pressure in response to tight commercial deadlines to ensure data accuracy and consistency.• Developed and delivered high quality briefing materials to prepare board level directors for the formal hearings.

Management of 6 people responsible for Centrica’s £2.3bn nuclear joint venture interest with EDF Nuclear Generation (EDF NG), the 3.2GW new build option and offshore renewable assets disposal.• Developed strong stakeholder relationships with senior level executives at EDF NG to board level to ensure Centrica’s commercial and technical interests were maintained.• Managed the commercial joint venture relationship with EDF New Nuclear to build Centrica's new nuclear investment case to establish the net present value of Centrica's option.• Delivered the new nuclear business case to the Centrica Executive Committee and Centrica Board in preparation for Centrica’s final investment decision.• Led successful sale of the Lincs Wind Farm joint venture (LWF) offshore transmission assets with a value of over £300m.• Negotiated an attractive indemnity package to ensure future financial risk to LWF was minimised allowing the deal to progress towards completion.• Ensured effective communication throughout to a number of stakeholders including board members, joint venture partners, external stakeholders and the regulator, Ofgem.• Re-negotiated a complex set of legal agreements with three Port Authorities which, absent re-negotiation, would have terminated the deal with the preferred bidder.

Built financial models and developed power market knowledge across several technologies in support of structured power transactions potential asset acquisitions and new build opportunities.• Led the go-live process to successfully implement the nuclear contract management system to manage the £2.3bn nuclear equity deal from day one of the power purchase agreement.• Analysed and developed project assumptions to build a fully flexible discounted cash flow model to inform investment decision milestones and completed a bottom up assessment on appropriate cost of capital for nuclear new build.• Commercial management of the nuclear power purchase agreement, which delivered £120m of profit to Centrica's power business unit in 2010 by ensuring knowledge transfer between teams, and accurate forecasting and trading.• Developed advanced financial modelling experience including discounted cash flow (new build, asset acquisition), Monte Carlo analysis using @Risk, valuing power purchase agreements (including spark & dark spread) and tolling contracts.

• Four 6-month placements in British Gas and Centrica Energy developing knowledge of Centrica’s core businesses.