Meet Your Team
Account Leadership
Clay van Doren
Your Atos Executive Sponsor
Atos Deputy CEO and Group Chief Growth Officer is the proud sponsor of the Atos and National Grid relationship. Clay’s focus is on driving digital outcomes that exceed expectations for our customer’s customer. As a results-focused global business leader, Clay brings a passion and vision for the role of innovation to solve complex business problems. He’s previously held COO and CIO roles within BT, and was founder and CEO of Veritel Corporation.
Ajeya Shanbhogue
VP – Global Client Executive Partner, US
Ajeya is an Atos Vice President and holds overall responsibility for the relationship between National Grid and Atos. He’s been servicing the global utilities industry for over 18 years, and has held senior strategic roles in number of leading consulting firms. Ajeya has worked in partnership with some of the world foremost utilities businesses. He’s passionate about the role of digital transformation in creating a cleaner, more efficient and future-ready utilities industry.
Ash Hardman
Client Executive Partner, UK
As a dynamic IT leader with over a decade’s experience in client-facing roles, Ash specialises in delivery, operations and executive management. Ash’s passion for forging strong client relationships is matched by his dedication to creating innovative technology solutions that accelerate digital transformation and achieve strategic goals. Enhancing the end customer experience is one of his top priorities, and he strives to build partnerships that drive meaningful change for our clients and their customers.
Operations
Sharon Warren
Global Services Executive
Sharon’s role is to manage and oversee the delivery of Atos IT services to National Grid customers and internal stakeholders. Sharon has worked in a number of technical and service delivery roles within the Energy sector for over 20 years supporting both global and in country industry leading companies. She has a passion for digital transformation and automation with the key focus being on improving the end user experience.
Tim Weldishofer
Global Delivery Executive
Tim, is a senior client delivery executive with Atos and is responsible for the delivery of all Atos services provided to National Grid. Tim has been with Atos for over 25 years leading global teams across a variety of industries and sectors. He is passionate about developing strong client relationships and delivering high quality digital workplace services that drive successful business outcomes.
Chris Moore
Chief Technical Officer
Chris collaborates with the management teams at National Grid and Atos to ensure our technology is optimising customer experiences and driving deep efficiencies. Chris is dedicated to fostering automation and innovation, ensuring that Atos' personnel, technology, and processes are finely tuned to provide an exceptional end-user experience. Additionally, Chris spearheads the Atos Nexthink team, aiming to enhance proactive solutions that address root issues before they affect users.
Digital, Technology and Sustainability
Kavi Pelpola
Chief Digital Officer
Kavi has a wealth of experience from working in Tier One consultancies and systems integrators, where he’s helped develop transformational digital applications. He’s an expert in creating and operating technologies that drive complex, large scale transformation programmes. These initiatives deliver business outcomes that make a visible impact in our customers’ markets. A deep understanding of the complexities involved in enterprise-scale change programs means Kavi is adept at managing successful cultural, technical and operational change.
Paul Da Cruz
Global Head of E&U Industry Consulting and Marketing
Paul is our global Energy & Utilities (E&U) expert, with over 35 years’ experience of working with major public and private sector E&U providers. Paul has worked across the E&U chain, including power generation (nuclear, fossil, renewables), transmission, distribution, trading, retail and oil & gas upstream, midstream and downstream. He’s owned board- and director-level relationships with major utilities companies around the world, and holds numerous high profile advisory and leadership roles within industry associations.
Ray Knight
Sustainability Program Manager
Ray Knight is an IEMA-certified sustainability leader in Atos. He was one of the first Atos employees to focus on client sustainability services following its inception into the business in 2020. He delivers strategically important programs across the business and leads client engagements to ensure programs drive both business and environmental value. He is deeply convinced that technology has a huge role in reaching net zero and firmly believes that strong collaboration with clients and partners is crucial to accelerating progress.
Client Management
Vivian Chan
Account Director, US
As a Utility Digital Strategist and Account Director for National Grid, Vivian’s role centres on delivering technical solutions for transformation and innovation projects. He maintains a strong focus on supporting clients by providing high quality resources, and by overseeing the successful implementation of projects.
Derek Procter
Account Director, UK
A senior leader with over 20 years’ experience within the Energy & Utilities Sector, including seven years working for an IT partner at National Grid (US/UK). Derek has worked with a number of leading energy, water, aerospace and defence clients within the UK. His focus is on driving value through aligning clients’ business problem statements and visions to digital transformation readiness – for both the existing RIIO T2 period, leading into T3.
Sophie Harrison
Account Manager, UK
Sophie is passionate about addressing your questions or concerns quickly and effectively. She strives to maintain a strong and rewarding relationship between our two businesses. This is based on thoroughly understanding your objectives, needs and priorities, so she can provide the right skilled resources and coordinate project CORs.
Guy Morley
Professional Services Lead, UK
Guy is responsible for helping establish new professional services engagements with Atos customers. He initiates and manages the delivery of all project resources. Guy is experienced in building expert delivery teams for E&U customers in the private and public sectors, across disciplines including digital technology, data, change and cyber.
Sabah Anarwala
Client Partner Apprentice, UK
Sabha is a Client Partner Apprentice who supports on the National Grid account. She divides her time between project and client management, sales and delivery. She’s eager to extend her already-impressive skills and expertise, and to develop her knowledge of best practices and strategies to better support customers such as National Grid.
Richard Watson
Technology Services Account Lead, UK
Richard is a sales overlay in Atos’s Technology Services organisation, where he focuses on working with E&U customers. Richard supports our account teams in a variety of ways, including getting involved in sales and marketing initiatives to educate Atos customers on the range of our Technology Services offers.