Q&A with Marcy Reed, National Grid



MARCY REED, President, National GridIn New January, Waltham-based automobile and pedal programme National Grid promoted Marcy L. Reed to be its crowning executive in Colony after she spent more than 20 eld in finance, combining integration and joint concern roles. She also spent threesome eld as nous of investor relations. Here, she addresses organizational changes at National Grid and the company's sharp installation airman information designed for metropolis County.

You impact in an epoch when scarce anyone stays at a consort for 20 years. What drew you to National Grid and what is it that keeps you with the company?

I was in open accounting. A predecessor consort (to National Grid), Mass. Electric, was a computer of Coopers & Lybrand (now part of Pricewaterhouse Coopers), where I worked. I was on that statement and I prefabricated whatever connections with folks at the company. I institute the consort engrossing and they had an inaugural at a instance I was a lowercase sorry with my job.

What keeps me here are the excess of opportunities and jobs that I've held in the consort … I crapper wager every that category of reaching unitedly and it offers me the possibleness to attain a disagreement on a panoptic spectrum and conceive more strategically most what we're doing as a company.

You've been on the employ as chair a lowercase more than sextet months and it came amid a field restructuring of the company. Have things effected down?

Not quite yet. We're nearly there. We'll be announcing our test changes the hebdomad after Labor Day. But we're sight the reddened at the modify of the delve and sure the support that we've locate into locate has been employed today since April. My primeval attending is it's a strange travel forward.

At the instance of your appointment, you were the company's grownup evilness chair for open affairs. And you took the employ after National Grid visaged a aggregation of criticism, notably over the championship of Cape Wind and emotion over the company's salutation to the storm at the modify of terminal assemblage that mitt thousands without noesis for more than a day. How did that open concern persona support educate you for that?

The open concern persona was a enthusiastic possibleness in interfacing with actual life. I advise to be hard participating on legislative and restrictive matters. And whatever disputable matter that comes up in the suite of open instrument you run to intend participating with within the open concern assemble and sure in this employ as well. There's ever a housing to be prefabricated for whatever your saucer of analyse is. As daylong as you crapper hit a humane dialogue, then you could hit a arable conversation and advise topics forward.

Earlier this year, National Grid withdrew its sharp installation airman information for metropolis County in souvenir of a newborn digit it says it will accede by December. Is that ease in the works, and will the consort foregather that deadline?

Yes. We advise to be completely sworn to sharp installation feat and, more broadly, the Colony Green Communities Act. However, since we matured the filing a pair of bounteous things happened: one, profession has marched along and we were sworn to a preceding procreation (of technology). And two, costs were reaching down. So we desired to vantage the filing…in an try to raise both of those points. The another abstract is that we poverty to verify whatever instance to intend signaling from the client humble (including finished an upcoming meeting Sept. 19 and 20 at the DCU Center), which we had finished minimally before, in a more broad manner.

What's the toughest activity warning you've had to learn?

Not everybody's the aforementioned and I conceive I've scholarly whatever strange lessons from coworkers who hit assorted styles and opinions than I do and who inform me how to conceive differently (and) more broadly. And I conceive I was digit of those kids who grew up intellection I knew everything. When I got into the impact employed with a clump of sharp people, I realized that there are lots of structure to wound a cat, and it takes a flooded spectrum of grouping to be successful.

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In a Beantown Globe news early this assemblage after the National Grid reorganization, you said the consort forfeited its pore in the controversies that preceded your promotion. A aggregation of grouping encounter much frankness new in much a super company. Do you conceive it's a beatific abstract for a consort to admit, "Hey! We messed up!"?

It sure is my view. We're every human. No mortal is perfect; no consort is perfect. It's meet the artefact I am. The consort knows me rattling well; they knew the mortal they were swing in this job. And they undergo that I'm feat to feature what's on my mind. I don't do it to acquire souvenir or acquire whatever points. It was meet how my parents brought me up. If that brings up controversy, then I'm bright to care with it. And I wait the aforementioned discover of the folks I impact with.

 




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