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35 www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today United Kingdom Awards 2019 WATER SERVICES AREAS OF OPERATION The area in which we supply water and treat wastewater covers a total of some 10,530km² and extends from East Kent in the east, through parts of Sussex, to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in the west. IAN MCAULAY CEO of Southern Water ABOUT IAN MCAULEY Ian joined Southern Water as CEO in January 2017 and was appointed to the Board from 1 February. Ian has more than 30 years of global water and environmental experience and a significant record of achievement operating in both publicly quoted FTSE 100/250 companies and privately held enterprises. Ian holds an honours degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and is a Chartered Member of the ICE, CIWEM. Throughout his career he has managed major utility, construction and consulting businesses in the UK, Belgium, India and the USA. He has enhanced this practical experience with professional executive education, most notably at Harvard Business School. He has extensive experience in the UK regulated utility, construction and environmental services sectors, holding board positions across a broad range of commercial and statutory organisations. In his previous role he served as an executive director of the Pennon Group plc and chief executive of its subsidiary company, Viridor, one of the largest renewable energy and recycling companies in the UK. In a non-executive capacity, he serves as an independently appointed member of Greater Manchester Authorities Low Carbon Hub Board and Scottish Government’s 2020 Climate Change Board. He has also provided expert input to Government Review Groups and Industry Partnerships with particular emphasis on the UK skills agenda and development of future smarter regulation and environmental policy. FIRM PROFILE Each day we supply 541 million litres of drinking water from our 83 water treatment works along 13,905 kilometres of water mains to our customers’ taps. We take nearly 70% of the water from underground sources, called aquifers, 23% from rivers and seven per cent from storage reservoirs. Each day we also treat and recycle 743 million litres of wastewater at 365 treatment works after it is pumped through a network of 3,321 pumping stations and 39,729 kilometres of sewers. We are owned by Greensands Investments Limited, a consortium made up of pension and infrastructure funds. www.southernwater.co.uk