As the present CEO of National Grid, Steve Holliday is the motivator behind the company’s projects and continual growth.
Steve Holliday’s main duties presently involve driving the direction of the parent company, but in earlier positions within National Grid he was in charge of certain parts of the company. In 2001 his original role was to oversee European and the United Kingdom areas as a Board Director. During the transition time of the merger between the Lattice Group plc and the National Grid plc, his authority was expanded to comprise the corporation’s services for electricity and gas transmissions.
The subsequent position for Holliday was the business’s Group Director, ensuring the company’s services and gas distribution performed well, with a particular focus on England’s area. This then resulted in his role as CEO at National Grid, which he assumed in January of 2007.
Around the United Kingdom, Steve Holliday is also an active board member of several top groups aside from his role at National Grid. One of the most successful is his ten year position as a Non-Executive Director of Marks & Spencer plc, and his former position as the Prince’s National Ambassador also earned recognition.
Holliday also holds noticeable positions at a number of other reputable organizations, such as Chairman of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy; Chairman of Crisis UK; and the Chairman of the Technician Council. He is also the Vice Chair of Business in the Community, and Chair of the Energy and Efficiency Industrial Partnership.
At Exxon, Steve Holliday filled senior roles handling the company’s shipping, logistics and refining of oil, starting off his career as a key business figure. Holliday was ultimately in charge of the most crucial refinery in Exxon’s portfolio, which was situated in Fawley. As he advanced within Exxon, he established his intention on the American market; for 4 years in the early Nineties, he became the person responsible for the international gas business across the Far East and Asia.
Holliday then held a role as a board member of the British Borneo Oil and Gas company. In 1998, he acquired recognition for his aid in the organization’s merger with Hardy Oil & Gas, and the growth of the organization to additional countries further away such as in Australia, Brazil and West Africa.
