Phil Bentley
Phillip Keague Bentley (born 14 January 1959) is a British businessman. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Mitie, and formerly the CEO of Cable & Wireless Communications. and the managing director of British Gas, the British retail arm of the energy company Centrica. Early and personal life Bentley was brought up in Bradford, and attended Woodhouse Grove School in Apperley Bridge. He holds a master's degree from Pembroke College, Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Bentley is married and has two children. Career Bentley joined BP's graduate recruitment scheme in 1982, training as a management accountant. He worked in China from 1983 to 1985, and then Egypt and the US, before returning to the UK as head of capital markets. He joined Grand Metropolitan in 1995, which became Diageo in 1997; from 1 July 1999 until 2000 he was finance director of UDV Guinness. Centrica Bentley was group finance director of Centrica from 2000 to February 2007. and was also managing director, Europe from July 2004 to September 2006. On 19 September 2006 it was announced that Bentley would become the managing director of British Gas,