Iain Conn

Iain Cameron Conn (born 22 October 1962) is a British businessman. He was the chief executive (CEO) of Centrica from 2015 to 2020.

Early life Iain Cameron Conn was born in October 1962 in Edinburgh and grew up in Galashiels. The elder of two sons, his father died when Conn was 12. He graduated in 1985 from Imperial College London, where he studied chemical engineering and management.

Career Conn served as chief executive downstream, of BP from 2007 until 2014 and was a main board director from 2004 to 2014. In this role Conn had responsibility for Centrica and led the repositioning of the company back towards the customer, reducing costs, shifting the culture, building new capabilities and re-positioning the portfolio for the next phase of the energy transition and in response to the low oil and gas price environment. The company shifted its portfolio emphasis more towards the customer in the areas of energy supply, services, distributed energy and power, and energy marketing and trading. During his tenure he had to contend with the CMA investigation into the UK energy market, and the subsequent introduction of a price cap in retail energy, something Conn opposed because of its effect on competition.

Conn was a director of BP from 2004 to 2014, and Rolls-Royce Holdings from 2005 to 2014, latterly as senior independent director.