Peter Martin-Simon

Peter is currently Chief Commercial Officer at insurance provider, esure group. Previously, he ran British Gas residential and small business energy supply at Centrica, including the set-up of its new energy platform business and brands. Prior to this, Peter was responsible for Centrica Home Solutions, focusing on growing the Hive brand of smarthome products.

Before Centrica, Peter worked at Barclays across its retail, corporate and wealth businesses in a range of roles, including leading a turnaround of its unsecured lending business, before becoming Managing Director for Marketing, Analytics and Innovation. He has also worked across strategy, transformation and commercial diligence projects at PwC and Deloitte. Peter has held non-executive director roles at Jersey Electricity and SmartEnergy GB.

Peter holds an MA in Physics & Philosophy from Oxford University and an MBA (distinction) from the London Business School. He lives in south London with his wife, four children and two dogs – all of whom regularly beat him on Saturday morning parkruns.