SSE Renewables’ chief financial officer Barry O’Regan has been promoted to the same role within SSE plc and becomes an executive director from 1 December 2023.
He will also join SSE’s group executive committee from the same date.
Outgoing incumbent finance director Gregor Alexander will step down from the board on the same date, before retiring and leaving SSE at the end of March 2024 after an orderly transition.
Alexander, who joined SSE at its inception in 1998 and has been finance director since 2002, will continue in his positions as chair of SSE Transmission’s Board and as a director on the board of Neos Networks Limited, SSE’s JV with Infracapital Partners.
Alistair Phillips-Davies, SSE chief executive, said: “In Barry we have secured a hugely capable successor who has been instrumental in our strategic realignment in the last decade, both corporately and in SSE Renewables.
“Barry has all the financial capabilities and energy value chain knowledge to help propel SSE to new heights as we take forward our Net Zero Acceleration Programme and continue to grow the Group, I look forward to working with him more closely on the delivery of the vision for SSE.”