Roy Feltham

Roy is a chartered gas engineer with 30 years experience of operational management and strategy development in the UK gas industry. He has a track record of business improvement, service delivery, innovation, change management and industry and team leadership. Roy held senior management positions in the nationalised and privatised British Gas up to 1994. Examples of achievements include the leadership of an eight year programme of work that resulted in a fundamental and comprehensive transformation of design criteria and practice for gas distribution systems, the introduction of innovative pipe technologies and construction methods to achieve significant expansion of the network to new customers and the replacement, upgrading and operation of telecommunications infrastructure to provide business critical telephony, data communications, telemetry, private mobile radio and grid control systems. In 1994 he assisted the Managing Director to formulate proposals for the creation of a new Transco organisation as the monopoly gas transportation company. He then led a number of significant changes that were necessary for the privatisation of the company and the liberalisation of the industry. These included the rationalisation of the system control organisation and infrastructure, the implementation of commercial arrangements for balancing the gas grid and the design and implementation of a technical governance framework to enable Transco to satisfy its statutory obligations in respect of system integrity, public safety and occupational safety. Since 1985, he has led significant programmes of organisational and cultural change as part of the transformation from a large integrated state monopoly to a commercially focussed and regulated public gas transportation company. From 1995 he has successfully applied MAC Systems Leadership Modelling to develop coherent organisations that have delivered effective business performance. Roy left Transco in 2000. In 1997, Roy was elected by industry peers from all employment sectors of the onshore gas industry, to be the founding chairman of the Gas Industry National Training Organisation. This was one of a network of NTO’s, appointed by Government to develop the occupational standards and address the skills needed by the industry to sustain a competitive gas industry. In 1991, the remit was extended to include the water industry and will be extended further in 2003 when a new Sector Skills Council will be formed for the Energy, Utility and Waste Management Industries. In addition to this role, and his role as a MAC Associate, Roy has a personal engineering consultancy portfolio.