AGL Energy Limited (AGL) today confirmed the appointment of its new Chief Information Officer (CIO), following the restructure of the company’s Executive Team announced in April this year.

Reporting to Chief Financial Officer Brett Redman, who leads the Finance and Information Technology group, Simon Moorfield will join AGL on 11 January 2016 to take up the CIO position.

Mr Moorfield joins AGL from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he was General Manager Products & Process and Acting CIO for the Retail Division. He has global experience, including time spent in Asia and the United States of America, and brings to AGL first-rate business transformation capabilities.

“AGL’s world-class customer and technology platforms will be in very experienced hands and I am confident that Mr Moorfield has the expertise to position AGL successfully in the rapidly changing digital environment,” said Mr Redman.

About AGL
AGL is one of Australia’s leading integrated energy companies. It is taking action to responsibly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions while providing secure and affordable energy to its customers. Drawing on over 175 years of experience, AGL serves its customers throughout eastern Australia with meeting their energy requirements, including gas, electricity, solar PV and related products and services. AGL has a diverse power generation portfolio including base, peaking and intermediate generation plants, spread across traditional thermal generation as well as renewable sources including hydro, wind, solar, landfill gas and biomass.