Derrick Dickens was named BGE’s new chief operating officer and senior vice president, over-seeing the day-to-day operations of the company. Dickens returns to BGE from his position as senior vice president of customer operations and chief customer officer at Exelon-owned Pepco Holdings. David Ralph has been named BGE’s general counsel, responsible for providing legal counsel across all aspects of the company’s operations, including representing the company in its external legal matters, regulatory rate reviews, and other administrative and legal proceedings.
Duke Energy named Cameron McDonald chief diversity and inclusion officer and vice president, talent agility and acquisition. McDonald was previously Duke Energy’s vice president, human resources, where she led the company’s talent acquisition, workforce agility and HR business partner functions. She succeeds Joni Davis, who retired after a 34-year career with the company. McDonald reports to Ron Reising, chief human resources officer.
Exelon Corp. announced the senior leadership of the transmission and distribution utility business and the competitive power generation and retail energy business that will result from the planned separation of the companies. Christopher Crane, Exelon president and CEO, will continue as CEO of the regulated utility business, which will be called Exelon, and Joseph Dominguez, former CEO of ComEd, has been named CEO of Exelon Generation and incoming CEO of the competitive energy business, which will be called Constellation. Gil C. Quiniones, former president and CEO of the New York Power Authority, has been named CEO of ComEd. The company also announced that Joseph Nigro, Exelon chief financial officer, will continue as CFO of Exelon, and Daniel Eggers, currently senior vice president of corporate finance for Exelon, has been named CFO of Exelon Generation and incoming CFO of Constellation. Dominguez and Eggers will move into their new roles immediately, and Crane and Nigro will remain in their current roles. The separation remains on track to close in the first quarter of 2022.
Southern Company Gas named Fredie Carmichael vice president of corporate communications, leading public and media relations; employee and customer communications; and creative, digital and social media initiatives for the business’s four natural gas distribution companies and its nonutility holdings.