Executive Board
Executive Directors
Drew Johnson, Chief Executive Officer
Drew Johnson joined Eaga in 1991 having previously been with British Coal in supply chain management and logistics. He was appointed to Eaga’s Board in 1999 and has subsequently held a number of executive positions in operations and business and commercial development. Drew was Eaga’s Group Commercial Director until 2009, when he succeeded John Clough MBE as Chief Executive.
Drew has responsibility for the strategic development of Eaga, broadening its core service and installation offerings, transforming its financial performance and delivering significant growth in both the private and public sectors. Drew is the driving force behind a culture which engages its employees and drives performance and a commitment to the delivery of excellent service.
Ian McLeod, Chief Financial Officer
Ian McLeod joined Eaga in 2004 and joined the Board in early 2005. He is responsible for all aspects of financial management and reporting and works closely with Drew Johnson in delivering Eaga’s inorganic growth strategy.
Ian spent 14 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers prior to joining Eaga, during which time he gained extensive experience advising companies across a broad range of market sectors.
Latterly, during his career with PwC Ian supported blue chip organizations in undertaking complex mergers and acquisitions transactions.
Dave Routledge, Organisational Development Director
Dave Routledge joined Eaga in 2002 and was appointed to the Board in 2004. He is responsible for strategic organisational development, HR, IT, service excellence, corporate and government affairs and risk management.
Prior to joining Eaga Dave acquired his own strategic consultancy business working with blue chip clients. In that capacity, Dave worked as an advisor to the Eaga Board and developed the strategy for corporate restructure.
Dave previously held main board level responsibilities for human resources and operations within the pharmaceutical sector. He has extensive experience of company restructuring in the UK, USA and Europe.
Willie MacDiarmid, Chief Operating Officer
Willie joined Eaga from ScottishPower, where he had been Managing Director of Energy Retail since 2000 – a business with almost 5,000 staff and annual sales in excess of £3.3bn.
Having spent 19 years at ScottishPower in a variety of operational and strategic roles Willie has a wealth of industry experience and a deep knowledge of the energy market. As a former Chairman of the Energy Retail Association, he is also widely known and well respected throughout the industry.
Non-Executive Directors
Charles Berry, Non Executive Chairman
Charles Berry joined Eaga’s Board in 2005 and was appointed Chairman in June 2006. He has extensive experience with the UK power sector having been appointed to the board of Scottish Power in 1999 and served as Chief Executive of the company’s UK operations.
Charles is currently a non executive director of Drax Group and Securities Trust of Scotland plc.
Prior to joining Scottish Power, Charles was Group Development Director of Norwest Holst, a subsidiary of Compagnie Generale des Eaux, and has held marketing positions with responsibility for technical, business development and marketing within subsidiaries of Pilkington plc.
Malcolm Simpson, Non Executive Director
Malcolm Simpson joined Greggs plc in 1973, becoming Finance Director in 1975. He joined Eaga’s Board as a non executive director in 2007.
As Finance Director for Greggs Malcom oversaw a period of strong growth as the company expanded both organically and by acquisition and achieved flotation on the London Stock Exchange in 1984. Malcolm was also responsible for the company’s compliance with corporate governance regulations and risk management.
Prior to joining Greggs, Malcolm trained as a chartered accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell and spent time at Proctor and Gamble. Malcolm handed over the finance role in 2006.
Quintin Oliver, Non Executive Director
Quintin Oliver lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland, leading Strategem – the first dedicated lobbying and public affairs company to emerge after the Northern Ireland peace process development around the Good Friday peace agreement.
Quintin has worked in the public sector for Strathclyde Regional Council, in the voluntary sector (as Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action) and now in the private sector.
Quintin has wide European experience and is involved in the development of social inclusion policies in the UK.
Tracy Clarke, Non Executive Director
Tracy Clarke is Group Head of Human Resources at Standard Chartered, a leading international bank. She joined Eaga’s Board as non executive director in September 2007.
Tracy has a wealth of international experience in wholesale banking, human resources, corporate affairs and social responsibility.
She started her career at Standard Chartered in 1985. Listed on both the London and Hong Kong stock exchanges, Standard Chartered is a FTSE 25 company with over 60,000 employees in more than 50 countries.
Tracy has held a variety of operational and strategic roles, both in the UK and in Hong Kong. She took up the position of Group Head of Corporate Affairs in 2002 and was appointed as Group Head of Human Resources in 2006.
Roger Aylard, Non-Executive Director
Roger Aylard was appointed to the Eaga Board in March 2009 as a Non-Executive Director. The former Head of UK Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank is offering his services to Eaga as Senior Independent Director.
Roger’s career has included ten years in the oil industry, six years as a Research Analyst and fifteen years in corporate broking and corporate finance. He has acted as senior and trusted advisor to a wide range of major UK companies. His arrival compliments an already established Board and adds further experience at the highest level. Within Eaga, Roger will sit on the Remuneration, Nomination and Audit Committees.