Background
Drummond, Colin was born on February 22, 1951 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Son of William Balfour Drummond and Annie Rebecca Roy.
Businessman Chief Executive of Viridor
Drummond, Colin was born on February 22, 1951 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Son of William Balfour Drummond and Annie Rebecca Roy.
Licentiate, Trinity College Music, London, 1969. Bachelor, Oxford University, England, 1973. Master of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1977.
He is the Chief Executive of Viridor and joint Chief Executive Officer of Pennon Group plc, a British water utility and waste management company. Drummond has been a Director of Pennon Group plc since 1 April 1992. He has previously served as Divisional Chief Executive of Coats Viyella plc and served as Corporate Development Director of Renold plc, a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.
He has also served as Master of the Worshipful Company of Water Conservators.
Drummond serves as the Chairman of the Government’s Environmental Sector Advisory Group and is the Chairman of the Environmental Knowledge Transfer Network, and Senior Visiting Research Fellow in Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. In 2010, he appeared on the Channel 4 television series Undercover Boss.
On 5 August 2013 Viridor announced the appointment of Ian McAulay as Chief Executive of Viridor and Executive Director of Pennon Group taking effect from 9 September 2013, with Colin Drummond retiring as Chief Executive and taking up the position of Non-executive Chairman of Viridor.
Trustee Calvert Trust, Exmoor, England, since 1997. Warden Worshipful Company of Water Conservators, London, since 1997. Freeman City of London, since 1999.
Organist, choirmaster. Member of Chartered Management Institute (companion 2002).
Married Georgina Lloyd, June 30, 1975. Children: Colin Hugh Lloyd, Alexander George Balfour.