After 5 years, Mullins is making big switch and leaving Bord Gáis

The man who led the ‘Big Switch’ campaign in the Irish electricity market is about to make a massive change in his own working life — John Mullins, the chief executive of Bord Gáis, leaves the company this month.

The 44-year-old thought he was leaving his desk yesterday, but then Bord Gáis chairman Rose Hynes rang him just before lunch to tell him he would be needed until the end of the month. He’s happy to oblige.

Hynes will be sorry to see Mullins go. He has brought revenues to €1.6bn, adding €400m in sales in his five years with the company, and increased the value of the firm’s assets to €4.5bn from €3.2bn when he started as a 39-year-old.