A team of experts here for you
A team of experts here for you
A team of experts here for you
Meet the Board
Led by our Chair, Hannah Nixon, our Board of Non-Executive Directors provides strong governance and independent oversight. Together, they’re committed to guiding RECCo as we shape a retail energy market that is fair, innovative, and fit for the future.
Hannah Nixon Chair
Hannah Nixon Chair
Hannah is an experienced leader in economics and regulation, with roles across energy, utilities, and financial services. She is Chair of the Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO), and a Non-Executive Director (NED) at the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), Worldpay UK, and National Energy System Operator (NESO).
She was the first CEO of the Payment Systems Regulator and previously a senior partner at Ofgem. She has also served on the Jersey and Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authorities boards.
Roshan Awatar Non-Executive Director
Roshan Awatar Non Executive Director
Roshan has spent his entire career in data and technology. Focused on strategy, design and delivery across data and analytics, he has built and led teams through significant transformation and regulatory initiatives across UK and Europe. Roshan is currently Group Director of Strategy at Sky Data. Prior to Sky he was Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Lloyds Banking Group.
Helen Charlton Non-Executive Director
Helen Charlton Non Executive Director
Helen is an experienced non-executive with expertise in regulation, and consumer advocacy, bringing a consumer perspective to the RECCo Board. A former solicitor and partner specialising in competition, EU law, and utilities regulation, she went on to hold senior roles across energy, financial services, debt relief, and grant-making.
Her leadership track record includes chairing the FCA’s Financial Services Consumer Panel and the British Gas Energy Trust, as well as serving as an independent member of a water company’s Customer Challenge Group. Helen has advised Ofgem on vulnerability policy, contributed to expert panels in the water sector, and spoken internationally on consumer protection, including at the 2025 Responsible Finance Forum alongside G20 partners.
Isabelle Haigh Non-Executive Director
Isabelle Haigh Non Executive Director
Isabelle has over 30 years of experience at National Grid, working across both Electricity and Gas Transmission in leadership and Executive roles. She brings extensive knowledge of networks and the broader energy industry, alongside expertise in building high-performing teams.
A qualified executive coach, Isabelle has led teams of more than 650 operational staff across the UK and headed up National Control, the 24/7 operation responsible for ‘keeping the lights on’ for the System Operator. She’s also been a Women’s Champion for Gas Transmission.
Isabelle is an advisor on the EirGrid Monitoring Committee and a member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET). She chairs Physics Partners, a charity that improves young people’s life chances through the teaching of physics, and also chairs a peer advisory board for CEOs and MDs in her local area.
Isabelle lives in Warwickshire with her husband, their two (almost independent) children, three cats, eleven chickens, and a collection of tropical fish!
Paul Hallas Non-Executive Director
Paul Hallas Non Executive Director
Paul Hallas is an experienced energy leader with a career spanning strategy, regulation, and commercial roles at Centrica and across the supply side of the market.
He also serves on the Manchester Energy Network HoldCo and Community Energy London Boards and advises Gasuna Technologies and the GreenCrowd Impact Fund.
Paul has a keen personal interest in driving innovation and supporting the energy sector’s transition to net zero.
Rosa Rotko Non-Executive Director
Rosa Rotko Non Executive Director
Rosa is the Board-level sponsor for net zero, sustainability, policy, and regulation. She draws on extensive experience as a Senior Civil Servant in the Department of Energy & Climate Change and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, where she was Deputy Director for Clean Growth & Carbon Budgets.
A solicitor by background, Rosa has advised Ministers on setting the UK’s net zero target and established the International Powering Past Coal Alliance to accelerate the global phase-out of coal.
Rosa is registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority, a member of the Energy Institute, and a Non-Executive Director at the Conservative Environment Network. She also regularly speaks and writes on energy transformation and decarbonisation for large energy users including data centres, water companies, airports, and ports.
Rosa is also a keen runner and recently completed the Marathon des Châteaux du Médoc, a wine marathon in Bordeaux, France!
David Wylie Non-Executive Director
David Wylie Non Executive Director
David has over 20 years of experience working in Commercial and Procurement roles in the UK and globally across transport, retail and utility sectors. He has worked with organisations to build the capability and delivery of their teams in industries where customers are central, and high performing suppliers and supply chains critical to successful delivery. David is currently Director of Commercial and Procurement at Thames Water and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.
David is also a Board Member/ Treasurer at the Thames Estuary Partnership
In their words
Five of our Non-Executive Directors share what inspired them to join and how they see the Board helping to shape a retail energy market that truly serves people and the future.
Board Committees
- Governance Committee
Helps define governance policies, oversees Board effectiveness and succession planning.
- Nominations Committee
- Finance & Audit Committee
- Remuneration Committee
- Risk Committee
- Ethics Committee
Members are appointed onto Committees, drawing on their knowledge and experience and their roles and responsibilities beyond RECCo. Our committee membership as of 1 May 2024.
Each Director has also been nominated as Board ‘lead’ on key aspects of the RECCo mission:
We will facilitate the efficient and effective running of the retail energy market, including its systems and processes. We’ll do this through promoting innovation, competition and delivering positive consumer outcomes.
There are, then, Board ‘leads’ to address issues related to our stakeholders in industry (suppliers and networks) and consumers; there are also ‘leads’ on key issues for the retail energy market such as innovations in data and digital, and policy initiatives related to the net-zero agenda. Procurement of key services is fundamental to the way in which RECCo operates and there is a Board ‘lead’ to provide advice on best practice in this important area.