We have to step up as a company in terms of the whole green agenda and carbon reductions and climate change

Mike Quinn admits that trust in Irish Water was ‘on the floor’ after the water charges furore. But as the head of Ervia, the state company that owns both it and the gas network, he is optimistic about its future and has big plans to use farm slurry to roll out new power plants targets

Mike Quinn Pic: Fergal Phillips

CV: Mike Quinn

Role: chief executive of Ervia

Age:50

Lives: Castletroy, Co Limerick

Family: married to Gill, with five children

Favourite book: Winning by Jack Welch

Favourite film: Avengers: Infinity War

Hobbies: playing football and watching rugby

Ervia chief executive Mike Quinn is happy to confirm that he found his way back to Ireland thanks to The Sunday Business Post.

He had been working in the USA for ten years but picked up ...