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Tony Woods is PPA Energy’s Chief Financial Officer.  He joined the company in April 2008.  Prior to this he was for three years the Commercial Director of Cre8 Innovation Solutions Ltd, having previously worked since the early 1970's for EDF Energy and its predecessor companies – particularly London Electricity. Tony is a professional management accountant who has spent his working life dealing with the commercial and financial aspects of the electricity industry - with extensive experience of UK practice in the management of electricity networks and the energy sector generally. He has managed the commercial and financial teams for a major UK distribution business - having previously held a wide range of senior commercial and financial posts in a large utility. During this time he led a team charged with implementing the separation of distribution and supply businesses and was involved in asset valuation in the purchase of Eastern Electricity and SEEBOARD networks businesses. He has a wide range of practical knowledge of pricing policy, formulation of use of system charges, associated billing and data-gathering issues, and commercial and contractual relationships. He also has extensive experience of the development of incentive strategies for driving cost reductions with power distribution assets.

He brings specific expertise in the issues surrounding price formulation for power systems, and also in designing and implementing commercial change programmes for loss reduction, management of billing and commercial data gathering and settlement in electricity markets.

Tony is a visiting professor at Imperial College, London, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He is also a non executive director of Electralink Ltd - the Company which provides the data transfer network to the competitive electricity supply market in the UK and a range of other data management related and governance services.

Contact tony.woods@ppaenergy.co.uk