Ovo Energy
Ovo Energy is a UK based energy supplier with offices in Bristol and London. It was founded by former financial trader Stephen Fitzpatrick and began trading in 2009.
Ovo was set up as a rival to the 'Big Six' energy companies (Centrica-owned BG Group, EDF Energy, npower, E.ON, Scottish Power, and SSE), who Fitzpatrick believed had grown too expensive.[1] In October 2013 Fitzpatrick spoke to the Energy and Climate Change Committee and criticised the Big Six for their rising prices, saying the wholesale cost had in fact got cheaper.[2]
People
- Stephen Fitzpatrick, founder and CEO. Former vice president of JP Morgan and Societe Generale.[3]
- Richard Kanareck, chief communications officer[4]
- Georgia Berry, former energy adviser to British PM Theresa May and former [{Centrica]] executive.
- Rob Jeffrey, head of government affairs at Ovo, former senior account manager at Edelman.
Former
- Guy Newey, head of policy. Now a special adviser to the energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd.[5]
Investment
In August 2014 it was announced that former US vice-president turned investor, Al Gore, had invested £8 million in Ovo through his sustainable investment fund Generation Investment Management.[6]
Lobbying firms and consultants
Former
- Bell Pottinger, December 2012-May 2013.[7][8]
- Weber Shandwick, December 2013-February 2014.[9]
- Edelman, March 2014-August 2014.[10][11]
Notes
- ↑ Will Smale Stephen Fitzpatrick: Taking on the big six energy firms, BBC News, 28 April 2014, accessed 10 June 2015.
- ↑ BBC News Ovo Energy boss 'confused' by larger firms' price rises, 29 October 2013, accessed 10 June 2015.
- ↑ Linkedin Stephen Fitzpatrick, accessed 10 June 2015.
- ↑ Anna Reynolds Ex-Fleishman UK MD Richard Kanareck resurfaces as OVO Energy comms chief PR Week, 9 June 2015, accessed 10 June 2015.
- ↑ Jillian Ambrose, Ovo’s head of policy made special advisor to Amber Rudd, Utility Week, 29 May 2015, accessed 4 June 2015
- ↑ Rebecca Burn-Callander Al Gore invests in OVO Energy ahead of stock market listing Telegraph, 23 August 2014, accessed 10 June 2015.
- ↑ PRCA Consultancies – December 2012 to February 2013, accessed 10 June 2015.
- ↑ PRCA Consultancies – March to May 2013, accessed 10 June 2015.
- ↑ APPC Register for 1st December 2013 - 28th February 2014, accessed 10 June 2014.
- ↑ PRCA Register for 1st March 2014 - 31st May 2014, accessed 10 June 2015.
- ↑ APPC Register 1st June 2014 - 31st August 2014, accessed 10 June 2015.