RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of
directors of Dominion (NYSE: D) has elected two new directors,
Joseph M. Rigby and Susan N. Story, effective immediately. The
elections bring the size of Dominion's board to 13.
Thomas F. Farrell II, chairman,
president and chief executive officer, said:
"Dominion welcomes Joe Rigby and
Susan Story to its board of
directors. The company and its shareholders will certainly benefit
from these individuals' nearly seven decades of collective
experience, leadership and customer service in the utility
sector."
Rigby, 60, is the retired chairman, president and chief
executive officer of Pepco Holdings, Inc., whose subsidiaries
provided natural gas and electric utility service to about 2
million customers. He served in that capacity from 2009 until 2016.
He joined the company, in a predecessor form as Atlantic City
Electric, in 1979, rising through the ranks with stints as vice
president/general manager of Gas Delivery, vice president/general
manager of Electric Delivery, and senior vice president, chief
financial officer and chief operating officer.
Rigby has been a director of Dominion Midstream GP, LLC, since
2014. He serves on the boards of South Jersey Industries, Inc., and
Energy Insurance Mutual. He is a member of the board of governors
of his alma mater, Rutgers University;
and immediate past chair of the United Way of the National Capital
Area; and has served on the boards of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, the Edison Electric Institute, the Federal
City Council, the Greater Washington Initiative and the Economic
Club of Washington.
Rigby earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Rutgers and an MBA from Monmouth University.
Story, 56, has been president and chief executive officer of
American Water – which provides service to more than 15 million
people in 47 states and Ontario,
Canada – since 2014. She joined the company in 2013 as chief
financial officer, after 31 years at Southern Company. Story began
her career at Southern Company as a nuclear power plant engineer.
Her subsequent roles included, among others, president and chief
executive officer of Southern Company Services, executive vice
president of Southern Company Engineering and Construction
Services, and president and chief executive officer of Gulf Power
Company.
Story is the independent lead director of Raymond James
Financial. Her community and industry involvement includes her
service on the board of directors of the U.S. Water Alliance, the
Alliance to Save Energy and the Bipartisan Policy Center. She also
serves on the board of advisors of the Electric Power Research
Institute and the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, and
on the board of the United Way of Greater
Philadelphia and Southern New
Jersey.
Story earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from
Auburn University and an MBA from the
University of Alabama at
Birmingham.
Dominion is one of the nation's largest producers and
transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 26,000
megawatts of generation, 14,400 miles of natural gas transmission,
gathering and storage pipeline, and 6,500 miles of electric
transmission lines. Dominion operates one of the nation's largest
natural gas storage systems with 1 trillion cubic feet of storage
capacity and serves more than 6 million utility and retail energy
customers. For more information about Dominion, visit the company's
website at www.dom.com.
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