Our executive leadership team brings experience and expertise from energy, government, telecoms and industry. They are passionate about delivering the best outcomes for our customers, colleagues and country.
The Board
Board members
Richard McCarthy
Richard joined Capita's Local Government, Health and Property Division as Executive Director for Central Government in February 2012. Prior to this, he was the Director General, Neighbourhoods, at the Department for Communities and Local Government and their lead official for housing, planning, regeneration, local economies, climate change, building standards and the European Regional Development Fund.
Angus Flett
Angus joined DCC as CEO in March 2017 and has an extensive telecoms background. Most recently Angus was a Senior Vice President for Global Enterprise Products at Vodafone and, until 2013, the Managing Director of Customer Services and CRM at BT. Previously he has held senior positions within Cable & Wireless and Ciena. Angus is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Jersey Telecom.
Barbara Anderson
Barbara is an experienced Non-Executive Director who has worked extensively with SMEs, PLCs in regulated sectors, international private companies and venture capital specialists. Barbara is currently a Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit & Risk at Sovereign Housing Association, NED for BSC2 VCT and Chair at Altido. Her expertise includes innovation, growth and sustainability, strategic planning, start-up acceleration, business transformation, deal preparation and corporate governance.
Ian McCaig
Ian is Chairman of Festicket Ltd, Board Member and Chair of the Operating Committee at M-Kopa Ltd, Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Seedrs Ltd, Trustee Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at English Heritage and Board Member at Wesleyan Assurance. In his executive career, he was most recently CEO of First Utility, the largest independent energy provider in the UK and a pioneer in smart-metering technology and energy analytics, which was acquired by Shell at the end of 2017. Prior to that, he was CEO of lastminute.com. His early career was in the IT industry at ICL before moving into telecommunications and spending a number of years at Nokia.
Sarah Eccleston
Sarah joined the DCC Board in September 2022 in her first Non-Executive role after a 30-year career in IT Networking. Most recently, she was a Global Vice President for Cisco. Originally a software engineer, Sarah has wide-ranging experience in the industry, gained in variety of engineering, sales, and leadership positions with global technology vendors and service providers including Nortel Networks and Verizon. At Cisco, Sarah led the Internet of Things (IOT) and Networking practices for UK and Ireland; for Cisco globally, she was Chief Technology Officer for the Small and Mid-Size business sectors.
The Executive Committee
ExCo members
Angus Flett
Angus joined DCC as CEO in March 2017 and has an extensive telecoms background. Most recently Angus was a Senior Vice President for Global Enterprise Products at Vodafone and, until 2013, the Managing Director of Customer Services and CRM at BT. Previously he has held senior positions within Cable & Wireless and Ciena. Angus is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Jersey Telecom.
Gaynor Fisher
Gaynor has over 20 years’ experience in leading People Teams, predominantly in the telecoms and retail industry. Previous employers include Vodafone, Telefonica O2, Dixons Carphone and Kingfisher Group where she had responsibility for Board-level Business Partnering, People Strategy and Programmes, People Transformation Leadership and Talent strategy. Most recently, Gaynor has excelled in HR consulting roles within the Public sector and Financial Services most recently working with Legal & General.
Karin Meurk-Harvey
Karin has an international background in engineering, technology and telecoms spanning over 30 years. She joined DCC from Vodafone, where she spent five years as their Global Vice President of Commercial for IoT, Cloud and Security. Karin was appointed to the Rotork plc board in 2021, adding commercial expertise particularly in high-growth markets. Between 1996 and 2013, Karin held a number pf senior roles with Ericsson and has also served as a Non-Executive Director of Korala Associates Ltd, a privately-owned ATM software business.
Stève Hervouet
Stève has over 20 years’ experience in the regulated water industry, both overseas and in the UK. His last position was Director of Strategy and Regulation for Affinity Water.
Mike Hewitt
Mike leads our Technology Function, and sets our direction with DCC service providers on all system enhancements. Mike has 35 years in the technology sector across telecom, internet and large scale global technology infrastructure projects. Prior to DCC, as the CTO for a rail technology business he was responsible for driving solution integration across rail telecom projects, delivering enhanced track to train connectivity. He believes that connectivity enables innovation and as DCC is connecting every home in Britain we are a real enabler for the future. Mike brings a broad understanding across fixed and wireless networks and underlying infrastructure, to drive an enduring smart meter platform.
Ed Hurford
Ed is leading a programme that will transform DCC from a single programme project to a business that reliably delivers multiple programmes while supporting a resilient service with millions of end users. Ed previously spent 13 years at British Gas in a variety of leadership roles. Most recently he was Director of Smart Metering Infrastructure. Ed was involved in the British Gas smart metering programme from start-up to volume deployment of SMETS1, and was responsible for the British Gas SMETS2 programme as well as implementing commercial metering contracts and developing the future smart metering operating model. Ed also has previous experience in management consulting, and in upstream oilfield services with Schlumberger.
Penny Brown
Before joining DCC in 2018, Penny held a number of senior roles at British Telecom. Her career and experience spans more than 20 years in telecoms, focused on successfully leading large operational teams through complex transformation and growth. More recently, amongst other responsibilities, Penny has led DCC’s work to migrate millions of first-generation (SMETS1) smart meters.
Gary Glennard
Gary joined DCC in June 2020. Prior to that he has 40 years of experience specialising in all aspects of Change Management including Programme Delivery, Operations, and IT Transformations, 30 years of which was spent in senior roles at Lloyds Banking Group. He also held roles in the public sector, the food industry, and working for a ‘software house’ delivering insurance policy admin systems. Since joining DCC, amongst other things Gary was responsible for the delivery of the final operating cohort within the SMETS 1 estate. His current biggest challenges include completing the delivery of transition of smart meters to 4G technology and following that, the rebuild of the DCC’s core, the DSP.
Siobhan Stanger
Siobhan leads DCC’s work to support the renewal of DCC’s licence to operate. The new licence will define the scope of DCC’s work and set out the regulatory framework in which it will operate. Prior to leading this programme, Siobhan led the strategy and regulatory affairs team in DCC. Before joining DCC in December 2018, Siobhan worked in the civil service for 16 years in a number of different Departments including the Department for Energy and Climate Change and the Department for International Development. She has experience of designing multi million pound government programmes, strategy development, stakeholder engagement and delivering legislative change.
Ian Speller
Ian joined the Smart DCC Security team in 2018 and assumed the role of Director of Security in 2019. Before joining Smart DCC he spent many years in IT, specialising in security for the past 17 years. During that period he has gained extensive experience in security management working for a range of large organisations operating a variety of sectors including Service, Insurance, Manufacturing and Telecommunications.
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