Profile: Charles Naylor, Centrica - Looking at PR from outside/Charles Naylor is poised to take a refreshing approach to his role at Centrica

When Centrica announced the appointment of its new corporate affairs director Charles Naylor last week, it made much of the fact that he has spent the past 11 years in the energy industry. While it mentioned his Cambridge degree and his MBA, Centrica’s press release left a nine-year gap in 42-year-old Naylor’s CV. ’The only reason there’s a blank is because I did something completely different. I was an opera singer, so it wasn’t completely relevant for the CV for the Centrica press release,’ Naylor says without batting an eyelid.