Iain Cameron Conn was born on 22 October 1962 and is a British businessman.
12 Facts About Iain Conn
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Iain Conn was the chief executive of Centrica from 2015 to 2019.
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Iain Cameron Conn was born in October 1962 in Edinburgh and grew up in Galashiels.
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Iain Conn graduated in 1985 from Imperial College London, where he studied chemical engineering and management.
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Iain Conn served as chief executive downstream, of BP from 2007 until 2014 and was a main board director from 2004 to 2014.
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From 1 January 2015 until 2020, Iain Conn served as the CEO of Centrica, replacing Sam Laidlaw.
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Iain Conn is shifting its portfolio emphasis more towards the customer in the areas of energy supply, services, the connected home, distributed energy and power, and energy marketing and trading.
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Iain Conn was a director of BP from 2004 to 2014, and Rolls-Royce Holdings from 2005 to 2014, latterly as senior independent director.
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Iain Conn is a member of the council of Imperial College, chairman of the advisory board of Imperial College Business School, and a member of the advisory board of the Centre for European Reform.
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Iain Conn is a member of the president's committee of the Confederation of British Industry.
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Iain Conn is a fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and the City and Guilds of London Institute.
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In July 2019 Centrica announced Iain Conn would be stepping down from his post and retire from the company's board in 2020.