Governance and Leadership 

Paul Floyd is Chief Executive of Waitī Waters, with fifteen years of senior international executive experience across energy and water utility companies. An engineer by training, his career spans infrastructure, asset management and project delivery in New Zealand, Australia, the Middle East and North Africa, including senior positions with Contact Energy in New Zealand and Sumitomo Corporation’s global power business.

Most recently he was Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Shamal Az-Zour Al-Oula in Kuwait, a publicly listed company operating the country’s first privately-owned combined cycle power and water desalination plant, supplying around 10% of Kuwait’s power and 20% of its fresh water. As an adviser to Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water, he established the department responsible for delivering the country’s public-private power and water programme.

Paul has returned home to the Wairarapa, where his family is based in Greytown.