Mike Fuge
Chief Executive Officer, Contact Energy
Mike Fuge assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Contact Energy in February 2020. This was preceded by an extensive international career in the energy sector with Chief Executive roles at New Zealand Refining Ltd (2018 to 2020) and the Australian renewable energy company Pacific Hydro Ltd (2014 to 2018) as well as Chief Operating Officer at Genesis Energy (2011 to 2014)
Prior to this Mike had an extensive international career with Shell International primarily in upstream oil, gas, and LNG with assignments in New Zealand. UK, Middle East, and Southeast Asia focused on both development and Operating Units.
Since joining Contact Energy Mike has led the company in its pivot from status quo to growth, launching the $800 mln renewable Tauhara Geothermal project, accelerating the development of the remainder of the high-quality geothermal pipeline, renewing its wind development pipeline, and growing its retail business both in core energy connections and new adjacencies such as broadband. At the same time the baseline performance of the core operations has improved markedly with core underlying EBITDAF growing some 15% with flat OPEX in the midst of COVID.