Group Operating Board
Six Divisional Managing Directors who together form the eaga Operating Board lead eaga’s six Divisions.
Paul Varley, Divisional Managing Director - Managed Services
Paul has a proven track record of delivering success and managing rapid growth in contract management
businesses and has extensive experience in business process reengineering whilst maintaining a strong customer focus.
Paul joined eaga in 2006 from LogicaCMG where he was the UK Business Development Director responsible for outsourcing strategy. Previous to that he was an Operations Director with Siemens UK.
Paul started his career as an accountant with Procter & Gamble where he progressed through the organisation working alongside production, marketing and sales teams and finally into general management as Associate Director Accounting and Finance, Global Business Services for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
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Ashley Guise, Group Development Director
Ashley joined eaga as Associate Director Group Strategic Development in April 2006. Prior to joining Eaga, Ashley was Head of Business Process and an executive board member for Fulcrum Connections, part of National Grid Transco.
He started his working life as an apprentice technician in British Gas and then worked his way up through engineering, sales, marketing, business development, account management and general management roles.
In 2001 Ashley was involved in setting up and managing the £1 billion ‘Affordable Warmth’ programme in close liaison with government fuel poverty experts and raised £500 million of EU funding. Ashley was responsible for the delivery of all gas connection activities across the UK for National Grid covering over 160,000 connections and in excess of £250 million turnover, supporting National Grid’s licence condition requirements.
Paul Bowens, Divisional Managing Director - Specialist Business Services
Paul started his career as a retail sales trainee with North Eastern Electricity Board (Northern Electric) working his way up to store management roles then senior management positions in area management, business development manager and as commercial controller.
He was seconded to Northern’s energy supply business to set up and run the product development team and oversee the launch of new energy and home related products and services. Paul returned to the company's retail business as Business Development Director when Mid American sold Northern Electric's supply business to Npower.
Paul joined eaga in 2002 to support Commercial Director, Drew Johnson in managing commercial and development activity for the company. He was appointed as Director of Commercial Development in 2004.
Michael McMahon, Divisional Managing Director - Installation Services
Michael joined eaga after spending 13 years working for the construction giant, Tulloch Group holding positions from Quantity Surveyor through to Managing Director of the Tulloch Service Division.
He joined eaga in May 2006 following the company’s acquisition of various parts of the Tulloch Group and was appointed divisional Commercial Director in November 2006.
In June 2008 Michael was appointed Divisional Managing Director of eaga Installation overseeing activity across the domestic insulation and heating markets.
With responsibility for over 2,800 people, Michael oversees a broad service division including electrical services, energy solutions, eaga heating and eaga insulations.
With an BSC (Hons) degree from Glasgow and a MBA from Edinburgh, Michael is committed to developing one of eaga’s fastest growing sections of the business and expanding the products, services and sectors within it.
Keith Ballantyne, Director of HR and Risk Management
Keith joined eaga in September 2007 as Group HR Director and subsequently was appointed Director of HR and Risk Management.
In this dual role Keith has responsibility for managing the company’s people policies and performance, in respect of employee resourcing, partner relations, and engagement, as well as risk management and HSE reporting.
Keith joined eaga having held several senior HR and change management roles in oil & gas, automotive, FMCG and engineering organisations.
Richard Rogers, Director and Managed Services Biographies
Richard Rogers is Divisional Managing Director responsible for the eaga businesses in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and also in India and Canada.
Prior to joining eaga, Richard was Business Development Director with Belfast-based Phoenix Natural Gas, the company licensed to transport and supply natural gas to the Greater Belfast area. During his tenure there, he was instrumental in helping to develop the company’s customer base from zero to 120,000 delivering an annual turnover in excess of £75million.
Giles Sharp, Director of Investor Relations
Giles joined eaga in May 2005 as Group Financial Controller and subsequently was appointed Director of Financial Planning in which role he played a key role in IPO of eaga on the main list of the London Stock Exchange in June 2007.
Giles was appointed Director of Investor Relations in April 2008 and has responsibility for managing the company’s relationships with the investment community.
Giles joined eaga from PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was a senior manager in the Transaction Services team, advising clients on a wide variety of complex M&A transactions.