Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

The man who could sell the British public on fracking

Plus: The French catastrophe, One North and your bankers’ oaths

Centricas new boss: Iain Conn Photo: Getty 
issue 09 August 2014
Iain Conn, who will succeed Sam Laidlaw as chief executive of Centrica, would have been a dead cert for the top job at his current employer, BP, were it not for the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. The subsequent PR fiasco terminated the BP career of the then chief executive Tony Hayward — who seemed crushed by the episode, but recovered to make a double fortune at Genel Energy and Glencore.
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