Gregory Knight

I am an enterprise operator, board director, and advisor with experience leading and advising transformation, innovation, and earnings growth across complex businesses and industries. A consistent thread throughout my career has been translating deep customer and market insight into business results using customer experience, marketing, human-centered design, product innovation, and technology to help organizations create value, differentiate, and grow.Today, I serve as a Senior Advisor to Boston Consulting Group, supporting digital transformation and business performance optimization. I also advise on private equity opportunities, bringing an operator’s lens to growth, technology, product, commercial, and operational value creation.I serve as an independent director of Pentair plc and Fortis Inc. and as President and CEO of the National Sports Association of Wellness and Mental Fitness, advancing wellness, mental fitness, and leadership development in sports.My work increasingly focuses on the intersection of AI, technology, cybersecurity, organizational capability, and leadership. I am currently immersed in AI and technology study through the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and recently completed Emory University’s Executive Coaching program, deepening my focus on how leaders and organizations adapt, make better decisions, manage emerging risks, and perform through change.Previously, I held senior executive and C-suite roles at National Grid and CenterPoint Energy. As Executive Vice President and Division President at CenterPoint, I led IT/OT, supply chain, marketing, sales, customer experience, and economic development, while also leading commercial businesses with P&L responsibility for two competitive services businesses generating approximately $500 million in combined annual revenue. I also served as President and CEO of Energy Systems Group, LLC. Earlier, as Chief Customer Officer at National Grid USA, I led customer and commercial strategy, applying customer and market insight to transformation, growth, and performance.I also serve as a guest lecturer at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, sharing practical perspectives on leadership, customer strategy, transformation, and enterprise performance.I am a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder and have completed executive education and professional development through Harvard Business School, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Rice University, and Emory University.