Iain Conn

Iain Cameron Conn (born 22 October 1962) is a British businessman. He was the chief executive (CEO) of Centrica from 2015 to 2019. Early life Iain Cameron Conn was born in October 1962 in Edinburgh and grew up in Galashiels. The elder of two sons, his father died when Conn was 12. He graduated in 1985 from Imperial College London, where he studied chemical engineering and management. Career Conn served as chief executive downstream, of BP from 2007 until 2014 and was a main board director from 2004 to 2014. BP's Downstream division comprised all of BP's customer facing, manufacturing and supply businesses in over 70 countries mainly under the BP, Castrol and Aral brands. In addition to leading Downstream, Conn also had group regional responsibility for Europe, Asia and Southern Africa. Previously he served as the group executive officer for strategic resources of BP from 2004 to 2007, responsible for most of BP's functions and regional co-ordination, and was chief executive of BP's petrochemical division from 2002 to 2004. Conn spent 29 years at BP, with leadership roles in oil trading, marketing, refining and petrochemicals, and E&P. From 1 January 2015 until 2020, Conn served as the CEO of Centrica, replacing Sam Laidlaw. In this role Conn had responsibility for Centrica and had been leading the repositioning of the company for the next phase both strategically and in response to the low oil and gas price environment. However, as he stepped down, Centrica's share price had reached a historic low. The company 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.,