Dutch GasTerra Appoints Gasunie Exec as CEO

Dutch gas marketer GasTerra has appointed Annie Krist as a permanent successor to Gertjan Lankhorst who left January 1.

Krist has been CEO of Gasunie Transport Services (GTS) and so she is exchanging the challenges of running a gas transmission system with lower throughput and revenue, for managing execution of existing long-term contracts and a dwindling supply portfolio as Groningen output falls.

Krist started her career in 1987 in Gasunie's marketing department in 1987, at which point it was an integrated, unbundled gas transmission and supply business. She was in charge of the account management teams responsible for Dutch and foreign utilities and industrial undertakings. Among the supply contracts signed would have been those with Italian supplier Eni and French supplier Engie, against which GasTerra is now battling in the courts.

When Gasunie unbundled in 2005, Krist joined state-owned pipeline operator Gasunie, which has just had its tariffs cut and asset base devalued.

GasTerra's new CEO Annie Krist

(Credit: GasTerra)

From 2008 to 2011, she was the director for strategy and participations at Gasunie. On 1 July 2011, she was appointed as CEO of GTS. She is also a member of the board of Netbeheer Nederland and represents GTS in European National Transmission System Operators-Gas. She has been a member of Gasunie's Board of Directors since 1 May 2016.

With effect from February 28, Gasunie group CFO Rene Oudejans will temporarily assume her GTS responsibilities whilst retaining his own.

Robert van Rede has served as acting GasTerra CEO for the past two months; he is the company's commercial director.

William Powell