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Placing customer service at the heart of water companies - Q & A

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  • Session
  • Tuesday, 17 May 2016
  • 14:17 - 14:17
  • Duration: 20 mins
  • Publication date: 26 May 2016
  • Location: Water theatre, Hall 12, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility Week Live

About the session

Over the past few years, the improvement of customer experience in other sectors has increased expectations of monopoly service providers. As utilities seek to maintain legitimacy, customer experience is key. This seminar will explore what the future holds for customer trust and confidence and how companies can embedded new thinking and processes.

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  • customer service
  • customers
  • e-billing
  • water

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    Matthew Beech

    Associate Insights Editor

    Mathew joined Utility Week in the Summer of 2012 as a news reporter with a focus on the retail side of energy. Since then he has also reported on the water sector, before becoming Associate Insights Editor in October 2015.
  • Georgina  Mills

    Georgina Mills

    Ofwat, Delivery Director

    Georgina is a Delivery Director at Ofwat. She currently leads the customer engagement and outcomes project, which forms part of the Water 2020 programme.Since joining the Government Economic Service (GES) in 2003, Georgina has focused on the application of regulatory and competition economics in a variety of different roles including at: The Office of Fair Trading (now Competition and Markets Authority); the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS); and the Department for Transport (DfT). Georgina joined Ofwat towards the end of 2012 and was responsible for a portfolio of 6 companies during the PR14 price review.
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    Tony Smith

    Consumer Council for Water

    Tony joined the Consumer Council for Water in December 2005 as Chief Executive.Since it was set up, CCWater has tried to encourage water companies, their regulators and government to make sure that the industry and the way it is regulated is fully focused on customers and their needs.His early career was in strategy and marketing, implementing business turnarounds in oil, aerospace, automotive and fast moving consumer goods businesses.Later Tony joined the utility sector where he has worked at senior level in electricity and as a director in the water industry and the rail sector. During his career in the utilities, he has led corporate strategy, corporate services and stakeholder relations, customer service, investment programme and PFI procurement and delivery and competitive market business development.His last job was with Ofwat, as Director of Competition and Consumer Affairs, where he was responsible for consumer issues in the lead up to and through the 2004 price review.
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    Fiona Bailey

    United Utilities, Head of Sales and Cash Collections

    Fiona joined United Utilities (water and waste water provider in the NW of England) in 2010 as Head of Income for the Domestic Retail Division. She has previously held senior roles in customer billing, collections and customer services at Virgin Media, British Gas, Telewest and Littlewoods. A key part of her success in all of these roles has been to put customers at the heart of the businesses and deliver customer transformation through a people centric approach. Currently, as part of the Customer Leadership Team at United Utilities, she is helping deliver the next phase of customer experience transformation.
  • Grant  Stevens

    Grant Stevens

    Expolink, Head of Sales

    Grant has more than 25 years’ sales and operational management experience in both B2B and B2C markets, including the highly-regulated Financial Services arena. He has spent the past 15 years involved with the development and distribution of technology services that support customer acquisition and retention.Prior to joining Expolink in 2015, Grant worked closely with the likes of EE, TalkTalk and Virgin Media to create optimised customer journeys for corporate-scale omni-channel contact centres.Grant oversees the Sales, Marketing and Client Services teams at Expolink.
  • Grant  Stevens

    Grant Stevens

    Expolink, Head of Sales

    Grant has more than 25 years’ sales and operational management experience in both B2B and B2C markets, including the highly-regulated Financial Services arena. He has spent the past 15 years involved with the development and distribution of technology services that support customer acquisition and retention.Prior to joining Expolink in 2015, Grant worked closely with the likes of EE, TalkTalk and Virgin Media to create optimised customer journeys for corporate-scale omni-channel contact centres.Grant oversees the Sales, Marketing and Client Services teams at Expolink.
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