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Career: Cordi is responsible for the safe and reliable operation of the UK’s largest electricity distribution network, serving more than eight million customers across the East and West Midlands, South West and South Wales. As President, Cordi is accountable for National Grid’s £6bn investment programme that will be delivered between 2023-28, keeping clean, fair, affordable power flowing to homes and businesses across our region.

Previously Cordi was President of National Grid Ventures, where she led the development, financing, construction and operation of large-scale energy assets; such as electricity interconnectors, LNG storage and regasification, onshore wind and solar generation.

Cordi also served as Chief Operating Officer at National Grid’s US Gas Business and before that she ran the UK System Operator for National Grid, where she oversaw the strategy, planning and operation of over 14,000 miles of gas and electricity networks in Great Britain.

In her time at National Grid, Cordi has been a strong advocate for innovative solutions to a decarbonised energy market, believing clean technology solutions and new demand response initiatives can help to deliver Government targets for net zero.

Cordi became a fellow of the UK Energy Institute in 2016, acknowledging her significant experience in UK and European energy markets and networks. She was awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to the energy industry.

Skills and competencies: Cordi has more than 20 years’ experience in the energy industry, managing key relationships with government officials, regulators and customers. She has overseen transformation efforts to improve the customer experience across the National Grid businesses in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Cordi has a track record of fostering diverse and inclusive organisations and is the sponsor of our Women in National Grid (WiNG) employee resource group.

Prior to joining National Grid, Cordi worked for Centrica, the largest UK energy retailer, in a variety of commercial and operational roles; including serving 11 million customer accounts in the United Kingdom.

External appointments:

Board of Directors, WindEurope
Board of Directors, Energy Networks Association
Member of the Roundtable for Europe's Energy Future (REEF)
Trustee, Faraday Institution

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Cathy has 25 years’ experience in the electricity industry. In the first part of her career, she worked for a number of energy companies in the UK, France and the Netherlands, specialising in modelling and analysis for trading, risk management, strategy and investment. Cathy then joined National Grid System Operator as Head of Commercial where she was responsible for opening up the ancillary service markets to new sources of flexibility, such as demand side response and batteries.

Most recently, Cathy has been Director of Flexibility at ENOWA, the energy company of NEOM. NEOM is focused on developing sustainable living in the desert in the North West of Saudi Arabia, powered by a fully-renewable energy system. Cathy was responsible for ensuring that everything was in place to be able to balance and control the fully-renewable energy system, including the design and implementation of the flexibility market. In addition, Cathy led the teams developing the physical flexible assets needed to balance the system, including a 2.1GW, 23 GWh pumped storage station in the desert.

Cathy is an electrical engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Emma has joined us from German Manufacturing Company, Miele, where she has spent the last four years as the North West Europe Service Director. Prior to this Emma worked for BT where she held numerous leadership positions in Product Management, Commercial and Customer Service.

Emma has a passion for delivering Customer Excellence. Over the years she’s developed strategies and supported businesses through change and transformation to help deliver positive results.

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Graham is the Director of Field Operations and Safety for National Grid Electricity Distribution. He has responsibility for managing the distribution of electricity to eight million customers across the largest distribution network in the UK.

He joined National Grid ELectricity Distribution (then SWEB, followed by WPD) in 1983 as an apprentice. Graham has undertaken numerous operational and senior management roles within the business. The most recent being Network Services Manager DSO, responsible for the company’s transition from a Distribution Network Operator (DNO) to Distribution System Operator (DSO), dealing with internal business system change and external engagement with Ofgem, BEIS and the wider industry. In 2021 Graham assisted with the transition from WPD to National Grid Electricity Distribution.

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Paul is a chartered engineer with over 25 years’ experience in the utilities sector across a range of engineering, finance, policy and regulation roles.

He was appointed as Director of Regulation at National Grid Electricity Distribution (‘NGED’) in 2023. In this role he leads regulatory strategy and developing our business plan proposals associated with NGED’s £7.5bn investment programme keeping clean, fair, affordable power flowing to over 8 million homes and businesses across the East and West Midlands, South West and South Wales. Paul is also responsible for NGED’s billing processes and evolving industry and code arrangements to facilitate faster switching for customers.

Prior to joining NGED, Paul was Associate Partner in Ofgem’s Networks Division. He led on a range of network regulation and price control activities, including the RIIO price controls for both gas and electricity distribution, leading on policy design, incentive design, and cost assessment, working with UK government and a wide range of stakeholders. Paul previously headed up Ofgem’s Gas Policy team engaging on both UK and EU energy matters.

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Phillipa has been central to solving engineering challenges of the energy transition, from life-extending power plants to early life challenges in offshore wind. In the last 20 years she has progressed from technical excellence and project delivery roles across the UK and Europe, to global industry-shaping leadership in offshore wind.

Phillipa has delivered several industry firsts in innovation and is a strong advocate for the energy industry and field of engineering learning. A role model for many, Phillipa is passionate about developing the next generation of engineers, particularly on fostering diversity within engineering and the offshore industry.

Since joining National Grid, Phillipa has set about delivering transformational change in the Asset and Commercial Management arenas, developing a centralised, strategic approach to both asset and contract management.to drive significant performance improvements.

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Tanya Sharma qualified as a banking lawyer at Linklaters and spent a number of years advising on financial transactions in both London and Singapore. Tanya joined National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) as General Counsel in 2023 and has particular expertise in heavily regulated sectors, having worked at Barclays and HSBC and for a number of energy supply, oil, gas and mining companies.

Tanya's career is marked by her leadership on complex legal and regulatory projects and strategic crisis management (she supported on the administration of Lehman Brothers and on the special administration of Bulb Energy). She also maintains a commitment to mentoring and fostering diversity in the workplace. Tanya is responsible for legal, risk and compliance at NGED.

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