Ilona Simpson Email Address

Head of Cross Functional Services Information Technology

Innogy is a leading integrated UK energy company created in October 2000 from the demerger of the domestic UK energy business of the former National Power. In 2001, Innogy acquired the electricity supply businesses of Yorkshire Electricity and Northern Electric to become the largest UK electricity supplier and the second largest UK gas supplier.

Since starting my career in technology 18 years ago, I have built, refocused, turned around and span off IT capabilities to enable and to drive achievement of business objectives. I worked for companies like Accenture, Porsche, DHL and Aston Martin; served on two ExComs and run IT as a P&L.I also built operations of a tech start-up, growing the business (team from 6 to 24 in less than 6 months), negotiated major partnerships and joint venture contracts and experienced the process of going through VC due diligence first hand. My belief that the future is best when is co-created between corporates and start ups brought me to a leading VC firm who introduced the Ecosystem Economics(R) approach as a systematic way for corporates to engage with start ups as digital enablers. I put my money where my mouth is and am a tech start up investor myself.