Atlanta, Ga., USA - November 15, 2010, Atlanta, Ga., USA - Southern Company, an energy company, announced that Susan N. Story has been named president and CEO of Southern Company Services and that it has named Mark A. Crosswhite as president and CEO of Gulf Power, effective January 1, 2011.
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Ms. Story is currently president and CEO of the company's Gulf Power subsidiary. Since Ms. Story joined Southern Company in 1982 as a nuclear power plant engineer, she has served in numerous capacities with increasing responsibilities, including executive vice president, engineering and construction services, and vice president, supply chain management, at Southern Company, and vice president, real estate and corporate services at Alabama Power. She was named Gulf Power CEO in 2003.
Ms. Story currently is on the Florida Board of Education, chairs the Florida Council of 100 and is immediate past chair of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, as well as past vice-chair of Enterprise Florida and chair of the Enterprise Florida Strategic Council. She serves on the boards of Raymond James Financial, Inc., James Madison Institute and the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, as well as on the Florida Judicial Nomination Commission.
Ms. Story has an industrial engineering degree from Auburn University and an MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also has completed executive education programs at Duke University and Oxford University, along with international business studies at Cambridge University and leadership studies at Harvard University.
Mr. Crosswhite will succeed Ms. Story as president and CEO of Gulf Power, based in Pensacola, Fla.
Mr. Crosswhite is currently executive vice president, external affairs, for Southern Company's Alabama Power subsidiary. Mr. joined Southern Company in 2004 as senior vice president and general counsel for the company's generation organization. He later was named senior vice president and general counsel for Alabama Power before moving into his current executive role in external affairs.
Prior to joining Southern Company, Mr. Crosswhite was a partner with the Balch & Bingham law firm in Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Crosswhite serves on the board of directors for the Baptist Health Foundation, the University of Alabama School of Law Foundation and the Birmingham Business Alliance, as well as the board of the Laps for CF Foundation. He also is a vice chair of the Electricity Committee of the Public Utility, Communications and Transportation section of the American Bar Association. ■