Joe has 15 years’ experience as an academic, water company employee and consultant. He has worked in all areas of clean water networks, with a focus on leakage and asset management, and has used his experience to help companies with their strategic and operational challenges. Joe previously held a number of positions at Affinity Water and Artesia, where he focused on network asset management and leakage operations. He is a chartered engineer and water and environmental manager, and is a Fellow of CIWEM and their Water Resources panel.

Peter has been Chief Executive of Anglian Water Group since October 2013. His previous roles include Managing Director of Anglian Water from January 2010 and Chief Operating Officer from 2004. After completing an MSc in Analytical Chemistry at the University of East Anglia, Peter joined Anglian Water as one of its first graduate management trainees. Since then he has remained with the company, with spells working in America, Europe and Asia. As a founding member, and now co-chair, of the UK Corporate Leaders Group, he has championed business action on climate change over many years. He is also an active supporter of Business in the Community (BiTC), which focuses on the positive difference business can make to communities. He currently chairs BiTC’s East of England Leadership Team and is a trustee of international water charity WaterAid. He is a past president of the Institute of Water and a former chair of Water UK. Peter holds an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a chartered water and environmental manager, a chartered scientist and a chartered environmentalist. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society of the Environment and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.

A biology graduate, Doug joined Anglian Water in 1991 as a lab technician and moved on to innovation, where he worked on process optimisation and control. In 1996, he joined operational water quality as a network scientist. After gaining his MSc, and managing strategic science and AMP 3 plumbosolvency programmes, Doug moved to leakage in 2006 – initially as West Engineer then to the central management team delivering consumption monitoring and customer leakage programmes. In 2016, he joined metering as project manager for Smart AMI and is now Head of Smart Metering. Doug is a former member and chair of the CIWEM Scientific Group Committee.

Having spent 25 years in information technology and information systems, Clive has been delivering and deploying operational solutions within Northumbrian Water for the last 14 years, most notably in the geospatial field. Clive has been a driving force in progressing a national underground asset register, established England’s first moss tree, and has pioneered a number of initiatives to improve positional accuracy of buried assets. Partnership and collaboration have been at the heart of his work. Today, Clive helps colleagues win external innovation funding to turn their ideas into reality.

Bob is currently Chief Executive Officer of Portsmouth Water. Portsmouth Water has a 160-year history of providing water services on the south coast of the UK, today serving a population of around 800,000. The company has a well-established reputation as one of the consistently best performers in the sector at lowest price and has embarked on the first major reservoir project to be built in the UK since privatisation. Prior to this, Bob was Operations Director – Drinking Water Services for South West Water, part of the FTSE-listed Pennon Group.

Steve has a background in physics research and specialises in the analysis, management, regulation and economics of water loss and leakage. He has worked for a number of research and engineering organisations in the UK water industry for the last 30 years. His work at Invenio Systems is driven by a fascination with what ‘background leakage’ really is – a fascination that led him to work on new ways of detecting leaks and quantifying customer use. He is a chartered scientist, and a member of CIWEM and the IWA Water Loss Specialist Group.

Stuart has worked in the UK water industry for nearly 50 years, most of have seen him directly involved with leakage management from all perspectives. He has managed leakage data and leak detection teams as a water company manager, has owned and managed a company specialising in ELL estimation, pressure management and leak detection, and has been a director of two pressure management companies, and two mains rehabilitation companies. He has undertaken regulatory and strategy reviews for several UK water companies. He was Ofwat reporter for Anglian Water and has been the Leakage Reviewer for WICS and Scottish Water since 2009. Stuart is currently a director of Invenio Systems and, as a consultant, has been assisting Welsh Water and Irish Water develop their leakage reduction strategies.

Frank is a chartered environmentalist with a MSc in rural engineering from Cranfield University. He has 25 years’ experience in water management, primarily in the areas of clean water networks and asset management, and has a long-standing interest in leakage management. Between 1998 and 2021, he worked for Bristol Water in various roles, including (as a consultant) a number of non-revenue water projects in Central and South-East Asia for Bristol Water Services. At Bristol Water, he had a key role in developing and implementing leakage management initiatives, cumulating in UK industry-leading performance by the company in recent years. Frank joined Stantec UK in November 2021 as a principal consultant in the asset management team, and has worked  with several UK clients on clean water network risk and resilience projects.

Grace began her career in the water industry in 2017, when she was a water connections customer advisor within Development Services at Anglian Water. More than five years later, Grace is still working at Anglian, having moved on to technical and analytical roles. In 2021, she secured a support engineer’s role within Water Optimisation. She uses statistical and modelling tools to identify and prioritise solutions, while carrying out in-depth investigations of the current water network by interrogating and obtaining information from corporate data systems. She was awarded 2022 Rising Star Award from the Institute of Water – a programme that identified her as one of eight young people in the UK with the potential and appetite to progress within the water industry.