duke energy corp (DUK:New York)

Executive Profile*

Background*

Mr. James E. Rogers, Jr., Jim serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Carolina Power & Light Company. Mr. Rogers has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Duke Energy Corporation since April 2006 and its Executive Chairman since January 2007. Mr. Rogers serves as Chief Executive Officer of Progress Energy Inc. He has more than 20 years of experience as the Chief Executive Officer in the electric utility industry. He served as Chief Executive Officer and ... President of Specialty Coatings international Inc. He served as a Consulting Partner of Colonnade Capital LLC. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Hooker Furniture Corp. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Duke Energy following the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006. Before the merger, Mr. Rogers served as Cinergy Corp.’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for more than 11 years. He joined PSI Energy in 1988 as the company’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. He served as Deputy General Counsel for litigation and enforcement for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); Executive Vice President of Interstate Pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group; and as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Prior to those appointments, he served as assistant to the chief trial counsel at FERC; as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky; and as assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he acted as intervener on behalf of state consumers in gas, electric and telephone rate cases. He was also a reporter for the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader. In the course of his career, Mr. Rogers has served more than 40 cumulative years on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Rogers serves as the Chairman of the Edison Foundation and co-chair of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency and the Alliance to Save Energy. He serves as the Chairman of the Institute for Electric Efficiency. He was Chairman of the Edison Electric Institute. He has been a Director of Cigna Corp. since February 26, 2007. He has been a Director of Applied Materials Inc., since April 28, 2008. He has been Director of Advanced Energy Economy since February 2012. He serves as a Director of Energy Systems Network and Carolina Power & Light Company. He serves as a Director Emeritus of Fifth Third Bancorp. He serves as a Member of the board of directors at the Nuclear Energy Institute He served as a Director at Fifth Third Bancorp since 1995. He served as a Director of Duke Realty Corporation, Cinergy Corp., PSI Energy, Bankers Life Holding Corporation, Irkutskenergo AO and Indiana National Bank. He is a Board Member of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO). Mr. Rogers also serves on the boards of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the National Coal Council, the National Petroleum Council, and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. He serves on the board of directors of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He is also a Member of the Honorary Committee of the Joint U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE). He has testified 21 times on energy and environmental policies before congressional committees. In 2009, Mr. Rogers was honored with EnergyBiz magazine’s Chief Executive Officer of the Year EnergyBiz KITE Award (Knowledge, Innovation, Technology, Excellence). In 2007, he was named the energy industry’s Chief Executive Officer of the Year by Platts and Business Person of the Year by the Charlotte Business Journal. Mr. Rogers also serves on numerous civic boards and has published numerous articles on energy and environmental issues. He is a Board Member of Foundation For The Carolinas and co-chair of an Arts & Science Council (ASC) initiative to enrich cultural resources in the Charlotte area. He served as a Director of American Gas Association. He was named to the Hall of Fame at the Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics and the Hall of Fame of the College of Law, both of the University of Kentucky. He has been honored with various awards and recognition: The Jan. 5, 2009, edition of Newsweek named Rogers to The Global Elite list, “The 50 Most Powerful People in the World,“ saying ”The Chief Executive Officer of Duke Energy could make dreams of renewable power a reality.“ He received the 1996 Energy Daily Corporate Leadership Award; the 1998 Hebrew Union College Cincinnati Associates Tribute Honoree; the 2004 National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) Distinguished Service Citation; the 2005 Keystone Center Leadership in Industry Award; the 2005 Ronald McDonald House Lifetime Achievement Award; the 2006 Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee, Cincinnati Chapter; and the 2007 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Mr. Rogers attended Emory University and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Kentucky, where he was a Member of the Kentucky Law Journal and Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society. Mr. Rogers holds an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree from Indiana State University, an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration Degree from Marian College in Indianapolis, Ind., and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree from Queens University of Charlotte. He received his MBA from the University of Virginia and is a graduate of Virginia Military Institute.

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