Barry O’Regan to become CFO on 1st December Barry O'Regan will be appointed as CFO and as an Executive Director of SSE, effective 1st December 2023. Barry will also join SSE's Group Executive Committee from the same date. SSE’s 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. Barry is currently Finance Director of SSE Renewables as well as having responsibility for corporate finance across the whole of SSE Plc. He trained as a chartered accountant with PWC in Dublin before joining Airtricity in 2005, and subsequently the SSE Group in 2008. He has experience across financial control, corporate finance and M&A, treasury, reporting and operational finance, and of working with SSE's credit rating agencies. He has also led the execution of many acquisitions and divestments, including SSE's international expansion. As part of the transition, Gregor's current responsibilities for SSE's IT and General Counsel teams will be transferred to the CEO, with procurement transferred to the CCO. We wish Gregor well Gregor Alexander joined SSE at its inception in 1998 and has been Finance Director since 2002. He 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 joint venture with Infracapital Partners. We wish him well in his future endeavours.