
Thames Water has appointed a new chief executive with military experience to lead the fight for financial survival at London’s 15-million customer utility giant.
Chris Weston, the former boss of FTSE 250 power firm Aggreko, was in the Royal Artillery in the 1980s. He was also a senior executive at Centrica and has experience of the UK and Australian telecoms sector at One Tel and Cable and Wireless. He will take up the new job in January.