Angela has over 30 years’ experience of the GB/EU gas and electricity markets and brings extensive expertise from across most aspects of the energy system. She started her career at Scottish Power in commercial and financial roles, latterly as UK Strategy and External Affairs Manager for Scottish Power’s non-price regulated businesses - generation, trading, retail and renewables. Angela was a consultant for 13 years, advising clients on market arrangements across gas, electricity and water and developing business strategies.
Her past roles include Chairman of the Gas Forum, Director of Gas, Communications and European Affairs at the Energy Networks Association and Director of Future Markets and Engagement at Elexon (the electricity balancing and settlement body). Whilst at Elexon Angela was responsible for establishing the £90m Market-wide Half Hourly Settlement Programme and directed it for more than 18 months.
Angela has a passion for consumers, in particular the vulnerable and fuel poor, and has devoted a lot of time to customer wellbeing and safety. As such she was a Trustee of the Gas Safe Charity for 9 years and has been a member of Ofgem’s Stakeholder Engagement and Customer Vulnerability Panel for 6 years. Angela is Chair of the GB Smart Energy Code Panel and Board and an independent consultant.
Leanne Case is the CEO of Vzir Consulting and an alumna of University College London (UCL). She is an award-winning business strategist who specializes in environmental and social innovation. With years of experience in senior positions in government and industry, Leanne has led the Department of International Trade (formerly UKTI) in Iraq, co-founded and served as CEO of the Future Energy Forum in Dubai, and was a Managing Director at the Astia Fund.
Leanne's practical knowledge of sustainability is supported by the hundreds of technical studies she has designed, managed, and directed on economic, social, and environmental impact. She has managed groundbreaking assessments in the UK and Iraq.
As an accomplished entrepreneur and business leader, Leanne has been recognized for her excellence in strategy. In 2009, she was selected by the Head of DIT and the British Prime Minister to lead a study into the opportunity for British business in Iraq, resulting in her reestablishing the British Trade Mission in Iraq. Leanne was awarded the Iraq Reconstruction Service Medal for her services to Her Majesty's government.
Her adaptability and innovative mindset have allowed her to excel professionally, working across four continents and solving complex challenges for her clients in the energy, government, real estate, and healthcare sectors.
Leanne's driving force remains social justice, and she believes in improving positive impact through effective business strategies.
Ashleye is an independent consumer policy consultant and panel member specialising in competition, consumer behaviour and stakeholder engagement in regulated sectors. She has a keen interest in the factors that drive successful delivery for customers and the companies that serve them best.
Ashleye is an experienced contributor to expert cross-disciplinary groups in the Energy sector, including Ofgem’s independent panel for the RIIO Stakeholder Engagement and Consumer Vulnerability incentive and UK Power Networks' Customer Engagement Group for their ED2 business plan. She is currently a Competition & Markets Authority Panel Member and Chair of the Customer Group of Scottish Power Energy Networks’ Independent Net Zero Advisory Committee (INZAC). She was previously Policy Programme Director at Which? and prior to this had an award-winning career as an advertising strategist.
Professor David Flynn, University of Glasgow, is an internationally recognised expert in Cyber Physical Systems with extensive experience in energy networks and critical infrastructure. Prof. Flynn leads a significant UK research portfolio relating to the energy transition, which includes the UKs Hydrogen Integration for Accelerated Energy Transitions (HI-ACT) Hub. He is an experienced commercial Technical Director and has delivered new technologies and services to the energy sector. Prof. Flynn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), Chair of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Scotland Network and member of the Independent Net Zero Advisory Council (INZAC) of SP Energy Networks.
“I welcome the opportunity to support the Cadent team as they prepare their ambitious plans for RIIO-3. I look forward to offering insight and guidance on how their vision, ways of working and strategic priorities, must considers the challenges and opportunities of the energy transition, needs of their customers and how the company and its workforce readies itself for the increasing impact of data and digitalisation in their daily operations."
Stephen leads the Standards Setting, Workforce Planning, Skills Policy and Project Management functions at Energy & Utility Skills, engaging with political and regulatory stakeholders and industry to develop a safe, skilled and sustainable workforce.
Having previously led several strategic skills and workforce planning projects across the nuclear industry with Magnox Electric and the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board he is suitably experienced to support the group in this area.
With over 16 years' military service and 19 years in the energy sector, Stephen is an experienced leader with an MBA, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
Geraldine is passionate about customer experience and considering the customer perspective in all business practice. This springs from an early career working in senior roles in lending banking, where customer centricity was at the heart of the culture, at Lloyds Bank. She brings deep knowledge of risk/ audit and HR together with experience of working in large regulated blue chip organisations including BP in the energy space.
She led a management consultancy team for Smith & Williamson, delivering HR/ Transformation and Culture Change consultancy to multiple clients, including large corporates and SMEs. She has more recently worked as a member of the executive teams at Bristol Water and Elexon, in Chief People Officer roles.
She is really looking forward to working with Cadent, as part of their new CCG, to help them on the journey to deliver against their aspirations, particularly in relation to excellence in customer and employee experience.
Liz Tinlin is a strategy consultant with expertise in organisational purpose, positioning, and positive societal action. This is supported by wide ranging experience in consumer insight, and cultural and social trends, in UK and internationally, and in a wide variety of sectors.
Liz has degrees in business, earth sciences and sustainability, and volunteers weekly in primary schools as a STEM Ambassador.
Adam is Chief Executive of National Energy Action (NEA). He has been a consumer rights campaigner for many years including at Which?, energywatch, Consumer Focus and Citizens Advice. As a consumer advocate he has been a member of numerous advisory boards and committees from civil aviation to insurance fraud.
Fuel poverty and consumer vulnerability have been a focus throughout his career and Adam was appointed Chief executive at NEA in December 2017
Janet Wood has been a journalist covering the power and energy sector for 30 years, covering technology, policy and politics. She has a BSc in Physics and Chemistry and is the author of two books for the IET, on nuclear energy and on local-scale heat and power projects in the UK.
She is a council member of the BIEE and the Parliamentary Group on Energy Studies.
She is a member of the Scottish Power Energy Networks Independent Net Zero Advisory Council and was a member of the Customer Engagement Group for Cadent for RIIO GD2.
