ST. LOUIS, Feb. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of
directors of Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE) announced today that
J. Edward Coleman, retired chairman
and chief executive officer of Unisys Corporation, has been elected
to the Ameren board of directors effective Feb. 16. Coleman spent six years leading Unisys
(NYSE: UIS), a publicly-traded global information technology
company that employs approximately 22,000 people worldwide.
"Ed Coleman's decades of
successful leadership in the information technology sector will be
a valuable asset to our company and our board of directors," said
Warner L. Baxter, Ameren's chairman,
president and chief executive officer. "That background,
coupled with his extensive experience serving on public company
boards of directors, will help guide us as we seek to continue to
deliver superior value to our customers and our shareholders."
Coleman became chief executive officer of Gateway, Inc. in 2006,
and he remained with the company until 2008. Coleman joined Gateway
from Arrow Electronics Inc., a global distributor of products and
services to industrial and commercial users of electric components
and computer parts. While at Arrow, Coleman served as senior vice
president and president of enterprise computing solutions from 2005
to 2006.
Before joining Arrow in 2005, Coleman served as chief executive
officer of CompuCom Systems, Inc. from 1999 to 2004 and as business
development executive and director of marketing for Computer
Sciences Corporation from 1995 until 1999. Coleman also spent 17
years with IBM Corporation, where he held various executive
positions.
Coleman has been a member of several public company boards,
including Unisys. He currently serves on the Lexmark
International, Inc. board of directors.
Coleman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the
College of William & Mary and a
Master of Business Administration degree from Indiana University.
Coleman's election increases the size of the Ameren board of
directors from 11 members to 12.
St. Louis-based Ameren
Corporation powers the quality of life for 2.4 million electric
customers and more than 900,000 natural gas customers in a
64,000-square-mile area through its Ameren Missouri and Ameren
Illinois rate-regulated utility subsidiaries. Ameren Illinois
provides electric delivery and transmission service as well as
natural gas delivery service while Ameren Missouri provides
vertically integrated electric service, with generating capacity of
10,300 megawatts, and natural gas delivery service. Ameren
Transmission Company of Illinois
develops regional electric transmission projects. Follow the
company on Twitter @AmerenCorp. For more information, visit
Ameren.com.
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