Management Council
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ART P. BEATTIE
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Beattie, 61, joined the company in 1976 as a junior accountant with Alabama Power. He has held his current position since August 2010. Beattie is responsible for the company’s accounting, finance, tax, investor relations, treasury and risk management functions. He also serves as chief risk officer. Previously, Beattie served in several executive accounting and finance positions at Alabama Power, including chief financial officer, treasurer and comptroller.
W. PAUL BOWERS
Executive Vice President
Chairman, President and CEO
Georgia Power
Georgia Power
Bowers, 58, joined the company as a residential sales representative with Gulf Power in 1979. He has held his current position since January 2011. Previously, Bowers served as chief financial officer for Southern Company. He also served as president of Southern Company Generation, president and CEO of Southern Power, president and CEO of Southern Company’s former United Kingdom subsidiary and senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Southern Company.
STANLEY W. CONNALLY, JR.
Chairman, President and CEO
Gulf Power
Gulf Power
Connally, 46, joined the company in 1989 as a co-op student at Georgia Power. He has held his current position since July 2012. Previously, he served as senior vice president and senior production officer for Georgia Power. He has served as plant manager at plants Watson, Daniel and Barry. He has also worked in customer operations and sales and marketing.
MARK A. CROSSWHITE
Executive Vice President
Chairman, President and CEO
Alabama Power
Alabama Power
Crosswhite, 53, joined the company in 2004 as senior vice president and general counsel for Southern Company Generation. He has held his current position since March 2014. He was previously executive vice president and chief operating officer for Southern Company, president and CEO of Gulf Power and executive vice president of external affairs and senior vice president and general counsel at Alabama Power. Prior to joining the company, he was a partner in the law firm of Balch & Bingham LLP in Birmingham, Alabama, where he practiced for 17 years.
THOMAS A. FANNING
Chairman, President and CEO
Fanning, 59, joined the company as a financial analyst in 1980. He has held his current position since December 2010. Previously, Fanning served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for Southern Company, president and CEO of Gulf Power and chief financial officer for Southern Company, Georgia Power and Mississippi Power.
KIMBERLY S. GREENE
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Greene, 49, has held her current role since March 2014. Previously, she was president and CEO of Southern Company Services. Prior to that, she was employed by TVA, where she served as chief financial officer, group president of strategy and external relations and chief generation officer. Prior to her time at TVA, she served as senior vice president of finance and treasurer for Southern Company and has held various positions with Mirant, including chief commercial officer, South Region.
G. EDISON HOLLAND, JR.
Chairman, Mississippi Power
(Effective January 1, 2016, no longer serving on the management council)
Holland, 63, joined the company as vice president and corporate counsel for Gulf Power in 1992. He has served as chairman of Mississippi Power since May 2013 and was named president and CEO of Southern Company Holdings and executive vice president of Southern Company Services in January 2016. Previously, he was executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Southern Company, president and CEO of Savannah Electric and vice president of power generation and transmission at Gulf Power.
JAMES Y. KERR II
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Kerr, 52, assumed his current role in March 2014. Previously, he was a partner with McGuireWoods LLP and a senior advisor at McGuireWoods Consulting LLC. He also served as co-chairman of McGuireWoods’ energy industry team with focus in the areas of energy transactions and finance, energy regulation, energy policy and energy litigation. Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Kerr served as a commissioner on the North Carolina Utilities Commission and was the former president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
STEPHEN E. KUCZYNSKI
Chairman, President and CEO
Southern Nuclear
Southern Nuclear
Kuczynski, 53, joined the company in July 2011 as chairman, president and CEO of Southern Nuclear. Previously, he was senior vice president of engineering and technical services for Exelon Nuclear. He also served as senior vice president of Exelon Nuclear’s Midwest operations, senior vice president of operations support and plant manager and later site vice president of Exelon’s Byron Nuclear Station.
MARK S. LANTRIP
Executive Vice President
Chairman, President and CEO
Southern Company Services, Inc.
Southern Company Services, Inc.
Lantrip, 61, joined the company in 1981 as an analyst in Gulf Power’s corporate planning department. He assumed his current position in March 2014. Previously, Lantrip was executive vice president of finance and treasurer of Southern Company Services and treasurer of Southern Company, with responsibility for financial planning and analysis, enterprise risk management, trust finance, capital markets and treasury.
ANTHONY WILSON
President and CEO
Mississippi Power
Mississippi Power
Wilson, 53, joined the company in 1984 as an engineering co-op student. Since 2002, he served in a variety of officer roles at Georgia Power, including distribution vice president, transmission vice president and customer service and operations executive vice president. Wilson was appointed president of Mississippi Power in October 2015 and assumed the CEO role in January 2016.
CHRISTOPHER C. WOMACK
Executive Vice President and President
External Affairs
External Affairs
Womack, 58, joined the company in 1988 as a governmental affairs representative for Alabama Power. He has held his current position since January 2009. Previously, Womack was executive vice president of external affairs for Georgia Power. He has also served as senior vice president of human resources and chief people officer for Southern Company as well as senior vice president and senior production officer for Southern Company Generation.
