Severn Trent Plc. (SVT.L) announced the changes to Director and Executive Committee responsibilities. Andy Smith, Executive Director, will move from being responsible for Water Services to take on a new role as Managing Director, Business Services, encompassing the Severn Trent Services businesses, a new Retail for Non Households Water Services organisation and our renewable energy business.
The company stated that Martin Kane, Executive Director and current CEO of Severn Trent Services, will take on the new role of Chief Engineer covering engineering design standards, quality assurance, R&D and innovation for the Group and all health and safety aspects of operations.
Reflecting Andy Smith's new responsibilities Simon Cocks, who is currently responsible for Waste Water Services and is a member of the Severn Trent Executive Committee, will take on responsibility for the newly created Wholesale Operations business, which is a merger of the Water and Waste Water teams, as our new Managing Director, Wholesale Operations.
In addition, two new Executive Committee roles have been established: a Chief Customer Officer responsible for Customer Care, Transformation and Information Services; and a Group Commercial Director responsible for procurement, transport, supply chain and contract management.
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