Meet the Water Team

ESP Water

Over 1.1 Million Connections.
Your Trusted Partner, Guiding Your Future Utility Solutions

With over 25 years of experience and 1.1 million multi-utility connections adopted, ESP Utilities is your trusted partner for future-ready infrastructure adoption across electricity, water, gas, EV and district heating networks.

Our ESP Water division delivers innovative, sustainable networks, powered by over 200 years of combined expertise.

We offer tailored support to our clients, from planning through to NAV adoption, as well as ensuring maximum added value opportunities and environmental incentives.

Meet The Team

Our 10-strong team are focussed on unlocking the full potential of NAV adoption for our clients, and we’re proud of our unique and varied in-house expertise & knowledge at ESP Water.

Mike Connell

Head of Water

Mike proudly holds 20 years’ experience in the industry, formerly serving as Developer Services Manager at Yorkshire Water, where he was responsible for all development activity across the region. Mike has extensive experience in design and construction of water and sewer networks.

Catherine Fearon

Head of Regulations

Catherine is Head of Regulations at ESP and is responsible for compliance, ensuring the regulatory requirements associated with operating our water, gas and electricity appointments and licences are met. Catherine has a MSc Water Science and Technology and is a Chartered Environmentalist, Chartered Scientist and Fellow of the Institute of Water. She joined ESP in April 2021 from Anglian Water Services (AWS) following 25 years in the water industry. Currently Past Chair, Catherine was appointed National Chair of the Institute of Water, in September 2021 a position she held until September 2023.

Ryan O’Sullivan

Wastewater Network Manager

Ryan is ESPs Wastewater Network Manager and is responsible for setting the standards for construction of wastewater assets to be adopted by the company.

He is also responsible for the technical and commercial aspects of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) design, adoption and operation. Ryan supports our commercial teams on opportunities to support developers where water neutrality or nutrient neutrality schemes may be required.

Ryan joined ESPUG from Southern Water in October 2021.

He is a Chartered Geographer (GIS) and a member of CIWEM.

Jamie Turner

Water Network Manager

Jamie has recently joined ESP and brings 19 years’ experience in the water industry, formerly NAV Operations Manager at STW, responsible for full E2E NAV customer offering. He has extensive experience in Field Operations and Customer Service, inc. Repair & Maintenance, Leakage and Asset Optimisation.

Peter Golightly

Water Engineer

Peter brings over 25 years of experience in the Water Industry, formerly serving as Pre Development Manager at Yorkshire Water. He has extensive experience in technical, regulatory, legislative and planning matters relating to water and sewer networks for new.

Amraj Reehal

Water Quality Manager

Amraj is Water Quality Manager at ESP, responsible for ensuring compliance with the Water Quality regulations set out by the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI), ensuring public health is protected. He manages Drinking Water Safety Planning, sampling programmes, and water quality investigations, and liaises with regulators, sub-contractors, operational teams and other water companies. He has over 9 years’ experience in the industry, having previously worked at Severn Trent and is also a Registered Scientist (RSci).

Parvathy Ashok

Water Programme Planner

Parvathy has 5 years of project management experience and leads the delivery and management of the Ofwat licensing process for all ESP Water projects.

Kevin Leaver

Network Design

Kevin is a civil engineer with 40 years sector experience gained at Barnsley Council and Yorkshire Water together with Technical/Engineering Manager roles at Keepmoat, Vistry, and Taylor Wimpey Homes.

Michael Oster

Water Fittings Inspector

Michael was previously at Anglian Water and brings 36 years’ experience to ESP Water in this integral role.

Meet the ESP Water Team