Georgia Power Taps Womack to Succeed Bowers as Chairman, President, CEO
October 29 2020 - 9:26AM
Dow Jones News
By Robb M. Stewart
Southern Co.'s Georgia Power subsidiary said Thursday it elected
Chris Womack to succeed Paul Bowers as chairman, president and
chief executive.
Mr. Womack, Southern's executive vice president and president of
external affairs since 2009, will serve as president of Georgia
Power, effective Nov. 1. He will assume the other roles with Mr.
Bowers' retirement, which is scheduled to coincide with fuel load
at the new Vogtle Unit 3 nuclear unit, expected in April.
Mr. Womack joined Southern in 1988 and has held several
leadership positions, including executive vice president of
external affairs at Georgia Power and senior vice president and
senior production officer of Southern Company Generation, where he
was responsible for coal, gas and hydro generation for Georgia
Power and Savannah Electric.
Mr. Bowers joined Southern in 1979 at Gulf Power and has served
as Georgia Power's chairman, president and CEO for the last 11
years. Georgia Power is the largest electric subsidiary of
Southern.
Write to Robb M. Stewart at robb.stewart@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 29, 2020 09:11 ET (13:11 GMT)
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