Thames Water appoints Chris Weston as boss with up to £2.3m package
by Kalyeena Makortoff and Alex Lawson from Environment | The Guardian on (#6H4P7)
Former British Gas executive tasked with leading turnaround in face of debts and controversy over sewage
Thames Water has appointed a former British Gas executive as its new boss with a pay package of up to 2.3m a year and a brief to turn around the heavily indebted utility.
Chris Weston takes up the role on 8 January and replaces Sarah Bentley, who resigned with immediate effect in June after three years in post amid a backlash over the company's dumping of sewage in British waterways.
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