Peter Hollins (businessman)


Peter Thomas Hollins is a British businessman, and a former chief executive of British Energy, which ran most of Britain's nuclear power stations, and was part of the FTSE 100 Index.

Early life

He was born in Hendon, Middlesex. He attended East Barnet Grammar School. He attended Hertford College, Oxford from 1966–70, gaining a degree in Chemistry.

Career

British Oxygen

He joined BOC in 1970.

ICI

He joined ICI in 1973, working with ICI Chemicals and Polymers. In the late 1980s, he worked with halomethanes, then moving in 1987 to ICI Soda Ash Products. From 1989-92 he was General Manager of ICI Resins BV. He then worked for a joint venture of ICI and Enichem, of Italy, called European Vinyls Corporation, as Chief Operating Officer until 1998. The company was floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 1994. It was the world's biggest producer of PVC.

British Energy

He became chief executive of British Energy in 1998. Nuclear Electric had become British Energy in 1996. On 7 June 2001 he resigned as chief executive. From 2000-01 he earned £330,000.

British Heart Foundation

He became director general of the British Heart Foundation in 2003.

NHS

In April 2016 he became chairman of the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

Personal life

He is fluent in Dutch, German and French. He married Linda Pitchford in 1973 in Barnet, they have two daughters, and live in Brockenhurst in south Hampshire. He has previously lived in Edinburgh.