Dean and I were colleagues in the management team at Blue NRG from 2019 thru 2021 and I'm delighted to provide a quick reference. Dean's leadership of the wider operations and technology team was exceptional, and I'm particularly grateful for the quality and volume of development projects that were in the pricing workstream during this period of time. On joining Blue NRG, the pricing systems were mostly manual and resource intensive, and within six months Dean had worked with external vendors to automate most analytical and pricing tasks. Sales ran at a double digit CAGR growth rate for the first 12 months of our collaboration, a large part of the growth attributable to intensive development in relation to channels integration and software that enabled bespoke pricing and self service production of rate cards. Dean's leadership style was at all times dynamic, collaborative, strategic and empowering, and set Blue NRG up to survive and prosper during a time when other retailers of a similar size went to the wall during COVID and the recent global energy crisis. I can recommend Dean to any organization, Fortune 500 or other, who is seeking a leader to improve organisational performance now, and at the same time would like to future proof their organisation. At a personal level, working in a small electricity retailer is not for everyone, and Dean's commitment to staying in the trenches to hit non negotiable price change deadlines, including assisting through Christmas and New Years holidays year in year out during our peak pricing period, was a level of 'above and beyond' commitment from a colleague that I've only experienced once or twice during my career.

Dean and I were colleagues in the management team at Blue NRG from 2019 thru 2021 and I'm delighted to provide a quick reference. Dean's leadership of the wider operations and technology team was exceptional, and I'm particularly grateful for the quality and volume of development projects that were in the pricing workstream during this period of time. On joining Blue NRG, the pricing systems were mostly manual and resource intensive, and within six months Dean had worked with external vendors to automate most analytical and pricing tasks. Sales ran at a double digit CAGR growth rate for the first 12 months of our collaboration, a large part of the growth attributable to intensive development in relation to channels integration and software that enabled bespoke pricing and self service production of rate cards. Dean's leadership style was at all times dynamic, collaborative, strategic and empowering, and set Blue NRG up to survive and prosper during a time when other retailers of a similar size went to the wall during COVID and the recent global energy crisis. I can recommend Dean to any organization, Fortune 500 or other, who is seeking a leader to improve organisational performance now, and at the same time would like to future proof their organisation. At a personal level, working in a small electricity retailer is not for everyone, and Dean's commitment to staying in the trenches to hit non negotiable price change deadlines, including assisting through Christmas and New Years holidays year in year out during our peak pricing period, was a level of 'above and beyond' commitment from a colleague that I've only experienced once or twice during my career.

Dean and I were colleagues in the management team at Blue NRG from 2019 thru 2021 and I'm delighted to provide a quick reference. Dean's leadership of the wider operations and technology team was exceptional, and I'm particularly grateful for the quality and volume of development projects that were in the pricing workstream during this period of time. On joining Blue NRG, the pricing systems were mostly manual and resource intensive, and within six months Dean had worked with external vendors to automate most analytical and pricing tasks. Sales ran at a double digit CAGR growth rate for the first 12 months of our collaboration, a large part of the growth attributable to intensive development in relation to channels integration and software that enabled bespoke pricing and self service production of rate cards. Dean's leadership style was at all times dynamic, collaborative, strategic and empowering, and set Blue NRG up to survive and prosper during a time when other retailers of a similar size went to the wall during COVID and the recent global energy crisis. I can recommend Dean to any organization, Fortune 500 or other, who is seeking a leader to improve organisational performance now, and at the same time would like to future proof their organisation. At a personal level, working in a small electricity retailer is not for everyone, and Dean's commitment to staying in the trenches to hit non negotiable price change deadlines, including assisting through Christmas and New Years holidays year in year out during our peak pricing period, was a level of 'above and beyond' commitment from a colleague that I've only experienced once or twice during my career.