Helping Lead EPRI
Chair Stan Connally is executive vice president of operations at Southern Company and chair, president and CEO of Southern Company Services. EPRI Board First Vice Chair Maria Pope is president and CEO of Portland General Electric. EPRI Board Second Vice Chair Lisa Barton is executive vice president and COO of American Electric Power. EPRI Board Director Brian Savoy is executive vice president and chief strategy and commercial officer for Duke Energy. EPRI Board Director Matthew Ketschke is president of Con Edison of New York.
Stan Connally is executive vice president of operations at Southern Company and chair, president and CEO of Southern Company Services. Maria Pope is president and CEO of Portland General Electric. Lisa Barton is executive vice president and COO of American Electric Power. Matthew Ketschke is president of Con Edison of New York. And Brian Savoy is executive vice president and chief strategy and commercial officer for Duke Energy.
Connally, Pope, Barton, Ketschke, and Savoy are evidently very busy individuals. Their day jobs are some of the most important within the country's electric utilities industry. Yet they are pitching in to help lead the world's premier electric research institution. Indeed, they have just been elected to its highest leadership positions.
So, the Public Utilities Fortnightly team asked them, why? What is motivating them to devote the time and energy necessary to play a big role in setting the course at EPRI? What they told us follows.
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