This group of men and women are carrying on the strong management tradition by leading one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, one of the industry’s largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity and the largest nuclear fleet in the United States.
Exelon Corporate Officers
John W. Rowe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Corporation
Doyle Beneby, Senior Vice President, Exelon Power
Frank M. Clark, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ComEd
Kenneth W. Cornew, Senior Vice President, Exelon Corporation; President, Exelon Power Team
Christopher M. Crane, President and Chief Operating Officer, Exelon Corporation; President, Exelon Generation
Ruth Ann M. Gillis, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Exelon Corporation; President, Exelon Business Services Company
Matthew F. Hilzinger, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Exelon Corporation
Ian P. McLean, Executive Vice President, Exelon Corporation; CEO, Exelon Transmisssion Company
Elizabeth A. Moler, Executive Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Exelon Corporation
Denis P. O'Brien, Executive Vice President, Exelon Corporation; President and CEO, PECO
Anne R. Pramaggiore, President and Chief Operating Officer, ComEd
William A. Von Hoene, Jr., Executive Vice President, Finance and Legal, Exelon Corporation
Andrea L. Zopp, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Exelon Corporation
John W. Rowe
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Exelon Corporation
John W. Rowe, 64, is the chairman and chief executive officer of Exelon Corporation, a utility holding company headquartered in Chicago. Exelon has the largest market capitalization in the electric utility industry. Its retail affiliates serve 5.4 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and its generation affiliate operates the largest fleet of nuclear power plants in the nation.
Rowe is the senior chief executive in the utility industry, having served in such positions since 1984. Rowe has led Exelon since its formation in 2000 through the merger of PECO Energy and the parent of Commonwealth Edison. Rowe previously held chief executive officer positions at the New England Electric System and Central Maine Power Company, served as general counsel of Consolidated Rail Corporation, and was a partner in the law firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale. Rowe serves on the board and executive committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute and is the past chairman of NEI and the Edison Electric Institute. He is also co-chairman of the National Commission on Energy Policy, an industry and environmental organization dealing with climate change. He is a member of the boards of directors of Sunoco and the Northern Trust Company. In both 2008 and 2009, Institutional Investor named Rowe the best electric utilities CEO in America.
Rowe is committed to a wide variety of civic and charitable activities, with a focus on education, science, history and diversity. He serves as chairman of the Illinois Institute of Technology and President of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. He is the former chairman of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the Chicago History Museum. He is a member of the boards of the Field Museum, the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, and the Morgridge Institute for Research. Along with his wife, Jeanne, and son, William, he established the Rowe Family Charitable Trust. The Rowes and the Family Trust have founded the Rowe Professorship of Architecture and the Rowe Family Endowed Chair in Sustainable Energy at IIT, the Rowe Professorship of Byzantine History and the Rowe Family Professorship in Greek History at the University of Wisconsin, and the Curator of Evolutionary Biology at the Field Museum. The Trust also co-founded the Rowe-Clark Math and Science Academy in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood. The Rowes serve as patrons of the Pope John Paul II parochial school on Chicago’s southwest side and the Rowe Elementary School.
Rowe has been widely recognized for his civic and professional leadership. Recent awards include the Edison Electric Institute Distinguished Leadership Award (2009), election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2009), the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Global Leadership Award (2009), the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce’s Daniel H. Burnham Award for Business and Civic Leadership (2008), induction into the Junior Achievement’s Chicago Business Hall of Fame (2008), Illinois Holocaust Museum’s Humanitarian award (2008), Civic Federation of Chicago’s Lyman Gage Award for Outstanding Civic Leadership (2008), the National Latino Education Institute Corporate Leadership Award (2008), University of Arizona’s Executive of the Year Award (2007), the Union League of Philadelphia’s Founder’s Award for Business Leadership (2005), the American Jewish Committee’s Civic Leadership Award (2004), El Valor’s Corporate Visionary Award (2003), the City Club of Chicago’s Citizen of the Year Award (2002), and the Anti-Defamation League's World of Difference Award (2000).
Rowe holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif. He has also received that university’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Rowe holds honorary doctorates from the University of Wisconsin, DePaul University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Drexel University, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Bryant College and Thomas College.
Rowe and his wife, Jeanne, reside in Chicago, as does their son, William, an associate with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom.
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Doyle Beneby
Senior Vice President, Exelon Power
Doyle Beneby is senior vice president of Exelon Power, a position he assumed in March 2009. Beneby oversees the following functions: fossil and hydro generation operations, outage and work management, engineering and technical support, Exelon New England holdings, and operational oversight of co-owned facilities and purchased power contracts.
Before assuming his latest role, Beneby served as vice president of operations for Exelon Power. He oversaw the daily operation, including maintenance, outages and work management, at Exelon’s fossil and hydroelectric facilities in Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Texas. Beneby rejoined Exelon Power from PECO, where he served as vice president of construction and maintenance. Previously with Exelon Power, Beneby was general manager for the Exelon Power fleet of peak demand power plants, based in Philadelphia.
Before joining Exelon, he worked for Consumers Energy in Michigan, serving as site general manager at the Karn/Weadock Electric Generating Complex. Beneby joined Consumers Energy in 2001 following 17 years at Florida Power & Light in positions of increasing responsibility, including general manager of the Turkey Point and Cutler fossil power plants, director of distribution operations, director of customer billing, transmission and distribution superintendent, labor relations manager and distribution new construction manager.
Beneby is a board member for the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce in Delaware County, Pa., and the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition. He also serves as the executive sponsor of EAAMA East, Exelon African American Members Association. EAAMA provides a forum for employees to show pride in their heritage and celebrate one another's successes.
Beneby and his wife, Christine, live in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.
Beneby earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Montana Technical College and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Miami.
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Frank M. Clark
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ComEd
Frank Clark, 63 is the chairman and chief executive officer of ComEd, which provides service to approximately 3.8 million customers across Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population. Clark also serves on the ComEd board of directors. ComEd is the largest electric utility in Illinois and a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation.
Prior to his appointment as chairman and chief executive officer of ComEd, Clark served as president of ComEd, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the company, and executive vice president and chief of staff of Exelon. Since joining ComEd in 1966, Clark rose steadily through the ranks, holding various positions in both corporate support and line functions. During his 42-year career at ComEd, he held key leadership positions at a number of business-critical functions across the company, including: customer service operations; marketing and sales; regulatory, governmental and community affairs; information technology; communications; human resources; labor relations; and distribution services.
Clark serves as co-chairman of the DuSable Capital Campaign, a $24 million initiative to expand the DuSable Museum, the nation’s first museum devoted to African-American arts and culture.
Clark serves on the board of trustees of the Museum of Science and Industry, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, DePaul University, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and University of Chicago Medical Center. He also is on the board of directors of Metropolitan Family Services, Illinois Manufacturers Association, Big Shoulders Fund, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation and the executive committee of The Chicago Community Trust.
Clark sits on the governing board of the Illinois Council on Economic Education and is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Economic Club of Chicago, The Commercial Club of Chicago, and the Executives’ Club of Chicago.
Clark serves on the board of directors for Waste Management, Inc., Harris Financial Corporation and Aetna Inc.
Clark received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Governors State University in 2005 and an honorary doctorate of law from DePaul University in 2004. Among the numerous awards he has received are the National Humanitarian Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice, the Man of the Year Award from the Rich Township Business Association and the Rerum Novarum Award, bestowed by St. Joseph’s Seminary of Loyola University. In 2002, he was a recipient of the prestigious HistoryMakers Award.
In 2008, U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology Magazine named Clark to its annual list of the 100 Most Important Blacks in Technology. Clark also was ranked among the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America by Fortune magazine in 2002.
Clark received his bachelor’s and law degrees from DePaul University.
Clark and his wife, Vera, have two sons, Frank III and Steve.
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Kenneth W. Cornew
Senior Vice President, Exelon Corporation; President, Exelon Power Team
A 21-year veteran of the electric utility industry, Kenneth W. Cornew, 44, heads one of the nation’s largest, most diversified generation portfolios, consisting of assets in the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, Southeast and Texas with a total revenue of over $10 billion in 2007. He also heads the growing retail business of Exelon Energy that serves electric and gas retail customers in Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. As president of Power Team, Cornew is responsible for ensuring the optimization of Exelon’s commodity portfolios and for creating the maximum value for the Company and its shareholders.
Cornew has been a leader of Power Team since its inception when the group was created to sell into the wholesale power market the output of Exelon generation and to grow the wholesale energy portfolio. He continues to play an instrumental role in the evolution of disciplined operational processes and innovation that are a hallmark of Power Team’s success.
Cornew has developed and strategically organized Power Team’s trading operation -- including short and long term power transactions, generation scheduling and generation dispatch – which serves wholesale and retail load obligations and proprietary trading functions. He has been and continues to be a leader in regulatory advocacy for the industry helping to shape the wholesale market evolution in the various regions of the country where Exelon has generation assets.
Cornew also has heavily supported merger and acquisition activities and corporate strategy for Exelon Corporation. Cornew performed an active role in the creation of Exelon by leading the integration of Unicom’s and PECO Energy’s power marketing groups as well as their generation and load portfolios. He was also an instrumental member of a team that evaluated the AmerGen nuclear generation asset acquisition which resulted in the purchase of ownership interest in Oyster Creek Generating Station in New Jersey, Clinton Power Station in Illinois and Three Mile Island Generating Station in Pennsylvania.
Early in his career, Cornew worked in PECO Energy’s regulated retail business as a large industrial account manager in southeastern Pennsylvania. He was also an engineer in the PJM Interconnection L.L.C. where he scheduled generation and power interchange as well as evaluated the performance of PJM’s generation dispatch and transmission scheduling operations.
Cornew obtained a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University and a master’s degree in business administration from Drexel University.
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Christopher M. Crane
President and Chief Operating Officer, Exelon Corporation; President, Exelon Generation
Christopher Crane is President and Chief Operating Officer of Exelon Corporation and President of Exelon Generation. Exelon is a utility holding company with the largest market capitalization in the electric utility industry. Exelon Generation constitutes one of the industry’s largest portfolios of electric generating capacity, with a multi-regional reach. It operates the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear power plants, and through its generation and trading organizations, controls more than 31,000 megawatts of electric supply. Exelon’s retail affiliates serve 5.4 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Crane is one of the leading executives in the power industry. Exelon Generation has substantial coal, hydro-electric, natural gas, oil, solar, wind and landfill gas generating capacity, but its foundation and competitive advantage is the nation’s largest and consistently best performing nuclear generation fleet.
Crane has worked in the nuclear industry in progressively more responsible positions for 30 years. He joined Exelon (then ComEd) in 1998, and was named Chief Nuclear Officer in 2004. He was a key player in the dramatic turnaround of ComEd nuclear performance, and the development of Exelon’s proprietary Nuclear Management Model, a codification of industry-leading operational, safety, management, regulatory, workforce and financial practices. The Model is the key to Exelon Nuclear’s sustained excellence in production, cost and overall effectiveness.
Crane assumed responsibility for Exelon’s fossil, hydro and renewables facilities, in addition to the nuclear fleet, in 2007. He has directed a broad range of generation and business development initiatives, including new nuclear development, nuclear operating services, development of the nation’s largest urban solar project, innovative decommissioning strategies, and asset optimization. He was instrumental in establishing corporate citizenship and public outreach as a plant priority.
Prior to joining Exelon, Crane served as Browns Ferry Nuclear site vice president for the Tennessee Valley Authority, and worked in new plant start-up at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant in Texas and Palo Verde Nuclear Plant in Arizona
Crane is an acknowledged leader in both the U.S. and international nuclear industry. He is a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the industry organization promoting the highest levels of safety and reliability in nuclear plant operation. He is a member of the executive committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nation’s nuclear industry trade association, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee, and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee, and the Materials Initiative Group. He is vice chairman of the World Nuclear Association, promoting the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear energy. He is on the board of the Foundation for Nuclear Studies.
Crane studied at New Hampshire Technical College, and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He has held a senior reactor operator certification.
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Ruth Ann M. Gillis
Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Exelon Corporation
President, Exelon Business Services Company
As president, Exelon Business Services Company (BSC), Gillis, 55, is responsible for providing oversight for transactional and corporate services to the Exelon operating companies. BSC encompasses information technology, supply chain, real estate and human resources, as well as other advisory, professional, technical and support services. As chief diversity officer, Gillis oversees all Exelon diversity initiatives including the company’s employee-focused Diversity & Inclusion strategy and the supplier-focused Diverse Business Enablement initiative. Gillis is also a member of Exelon’s executive, pension investment, and corporate risk management committees as well as a member of the Exelon Foundation board of directors.
Prior to her current position, Gillis was responsible for areas including field operations, customer satisfaction, public/external affairs, and real estate and property management for ComEd as executive vice president, ComEd. From Exelon’s inception in October 2000 until October 2002, Gillis served as chief financial officer of Exelon Corporation. Prior to the merger, she was CFO of Unicom Corporation. In addition, she was senior vice president of competitive operations, which included customer service operations, marketing and sales and new business development, all residing in ComEd. Gillis also was responsible for the unregulated businesses residing in Unicom Enterprises, Inc., and Unicom Resources. She joined the company in 1997 as vice president and treasurer of Unicom Corporation. As treasurer, Gillis was responsible for the corporation’s financing activities, cash management, financial risk management and treasury functions.
Before joining Unicom, Gillis was CFO, treasurer and vice president of the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System. Her responsibilities included oversight of all aspects of corporate finance and treasury for a $600 million health care system anchored by the University of Chicago Hospitals.
From 1977 through 1995, Gillis worked for First Chicago Corporation (now JPMorgan Chase & Co.), where she held a variety of lending and staff positions.
Gillis donates her time to various community organizations. She has been an active member of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation Women’s Board since 1986, and is the president of the foundation’s Board of Trustees. She serves as a trustee of the Goodman Theatre Board and is a board member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Gillis is a member of the Chicago Network, Economic Club of Chicago and The Commercial Club of Chicago.
Gillis serves on the board of directors for Potlatch Corporation (NYSE: PCH).
Gillis received her bachelor’s degree in economics from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She was distinguished as Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude with high honors in 1977. In 1980, she graduated with a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, with a concentration in finance.
Gillis and her husband reside in Chicago and have two sons.
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Matthew F. Hilzinger
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Exelon Corporation
Matthew F. Hilzinger, 46, joined Exelon Corporation as vice President and corporate controller in April 2002. He was appointed to his current position in January 2008.
Hilzinger’s career spans more than twenty years of financial and operating experience in a variety of international and domestic operations. Prior to joining Exelon, Hilzinger was chief financial officer for Credit Acceptance Corporation in Southfield, Michigan. Prior to Credit Acceptance Corporation, Hilzinger was with Kmart Corporation in Troy, Michigan where he held a number of financial positions including vice president, controller, assistant treasurer and divisional vice president, logistics finance and planning. Prior to Kmart, Hilzinger held various financial and operating positions at Handleman Company, also in Troy, Michigan. Hilzinger began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co. in Detroit, with his final position as audit manager.
Hilzinger received his bachelor’s of business administration degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received his certification as a certified public accountant in 1987.
Hilzinger and his wife, Shirley, have two sons, Jake and Tom.
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Ian P. McLean
Executive Vice President, Exelon Corporation; CEO, Exelon Transmission Company
As Executive Vice President, Exelon and CEO, Exelon Transmission Company, McLean, 60, directs a newly formed transmission business. McLean is actively leading the exploration of opportunities that Exelon will have in the transmission build-out in the U.S., and is crafting the strategy for the company that will allow shareholders to reap maximum benefit from these new opportunities.
Prior to his current role, McLean was executive vice president of Finance and Markets, where he oversaw Exelon’s finance organization, corporate development, and power marketing group. McLean was responsible for focusing on strategic direction, enhancing efficiencies and coordination to maximize shareholder value and creating a positive message to our investment community.
McLean was also the president of the power marketing group called Exelon Power Team, handling one of the nation’s largest most diversified generation portfolios. He had responsibility for creating maximum value for the company and its shareholders as he managed the generation portfolio optimization, fuels, wholesale power marketing, and Exelon Energy. McLean and his team protected the corporation’s earnings for two years ahead through the development of a hedging program that was in place well in advance of the recent economic downturn. Exelon Energy is the company’s growing unregulated retail electricity and natural gas marketing entity in the Midwest. McLean was instrumental in instilling a disciplined process culture and in harnessing the creativity of the talent within Exelon Power Team, which are now the foundational cornerstones of the organization’s success. During his tenure, Exelon Power Team has been on the cutting edge of development of proprietary systems that provide for seamless load management, scheduling, dispatch, communication and reconciliation. In addition, McLean cultivated a depth of skill sets within the organization to include a variety of analytical roles geared toward managing risk from a variety of perspectives. The depth of talent that has been developed in his organization has, and will continue to benefit the leadership of the corporation for many years to come.
From 1999 – 2007 as president, Exelon Power Team, the portfolio grew from 10,000 MW to 32,000MW (220 percent increase) while revenues have increased from $4 Billion to $10 billion for the same period. McLean led Power Team to be successful through several years where the volatility in the industry had a dramatically negative effect on many other companies in the industry.
Prior to joining Exelon, McLean was group vice president of industrial commodities management for Engelhard Corporation, where he was responsible for global trading, refining and recycling businesses with sites around the world. Engelhard Corporation, now incorporated into BASF, is a leading supplier of catalysts used in the petroleum, chemical, and food industries. An unusually diversified company, Engelhard also produces a variety of industrial products such as paper coating agents, color pigments, temperature sensing devices, and precious metal-coated anodes, as well as materials for consumer goods such as cosmetics and automotive paints.
McLean’s professional accomplishments are complemented by his active engagement in the community. He is a board member of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross. McLean also serves on the Lerner College of Business Advisory Board for the University of Delaware. Additionally, McLean has been a leading supporter of the Granville Academy in Trenton, New Jersey.
McLean received his Bachelor of Science degree, with honors, in mathematics from Teesside University, located in Northern England.
McLean and his wife, Kathryn, have four children and two grandchildren.
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Elizabeth Anne (“Betsy”) Moler
Executive Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Exelon Corporation
Moler, 60, joined Exelon Corporation (formerly Unicom) in January 2000. She heads the company’s Washington, D.C. office, and serves as a member of Exelon’s Executive Committee. Moler is responsible for all aspects of Exelon’s federal government affairs initiatives.
Moler had a long career in government service before joining Exelon. She was a staff member on Capitol Hill for 20 years. She served as counsel and senior counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1976 to 1988 under Senators Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson and J. Bennett Johnston. In 1988, she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, and confirmed by the United States Senate, to serve as a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton reappointed her. In 1993, she was designated by President Clinton to serve as the Commission’s chair. Under her leadership FERC adopted a landmark initiative (Order Nos. 888 and 889) to require utilities to open their transmission lines on an equal access basis to their competitors, paving the way for robust wholesale competitive electricity markets. She continued to serve as the Commission’s chair until June 1997, when she was appointed by the President, and confirmed by the Senate, to serve as the Deputy Secretary of Energy. She resigned her duties in governmental service in October 1998. During 1999 she was a partner in the law firm of Vinson & Elkins and a member of the Unicom board of directors.
Moler is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, American Bar Association and serves on the board of directors for the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.
Moler has been a recipient of the National Energy Resources Organization Distinguished Service Award, the Energy Daily Annual Public Policy Leadership Award, and the Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment, Woman of the Year Award. She was recognized by The Hill newspaper as a “Top Corporate Lobbyist” in Washington annually since 2003, and she is listed in the Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in American Law and The Energy Who’s Who Directory.
Moler received her bachelor’s degree in 1971 from The American University and Juris Doctor degree from The George Washington University in 1977, both in Washington, D.C. Moler also completed graduate study courses at Johns Hopkins University.
Moler is married to Thomas B. Williams and has two children, Blake and Eleanor.
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Denis P. O’Brien
Executive Vice President, Exelon Corporation; President and CEO, PECO
O’Brien is responsible for leadership of PECO’s operations and overall performance associated with service reliability, customer satisfaction, financial management, and regulatory and external affairs. Based in Philadelphia, PECO is Pennsylvania’s largest electric and natural gas utility. PECO employs about 2,400 people, owns $9 billion in assets, and generates approximately $5.6 billion in annual revenues. PECO serves 1.6 million electric and 485,000 gas customers in southeastern Pennsylvania. PECO is a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation, one of the nation’s leading energy services companies. Exelon is headquartered in Chicago and trades on the NYSE under the ticker EXC.
O’Brien was appointed to the top leadership position for PECO in 2003 and was named president and CEO in 2007. He has more than 25 years of utility experience in engineering, operations, strategic planning and executive management. Previously, he served as executive vice president and as vice president for operations with responsibility for engineering, construction, maintenance and emergency response for the company’s natural gas and electric distribution systems. His special assignments have included strategic planning on mergers and acquisitions, development of the company’s deregulation strategy and organizational redesigns to improve performance. PECO has been highly recognized for leading employee safety, diversity, economic development and environmental programs.
O’Brien serves on numerous civic and industry boards, including the Energy Association of Pennsylvania, American Gas Association, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), as well as the Pennsylvania Business Council, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, The CEO Council for Growth, The Franklin Institute, WHYY, Inc., and the Drexel University board of trustees. He also has previously served on the board of directors for the Pennsylvania Economy League and the YMCA of Greater Philadelphia.
O’Brien holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Rutgers University and earned a master’s degree in business from Drexel University.
O’Brien and his wife, Carolyn, have three children.
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Anne R. Pramaggiore
Anne Pramaggiore, president and COO of ComEd, is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the company, which delivers electric service to customers throughout northern Illinois. ComEd has 5,900 employees and revenues of approximately $6.1 billion.
ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation. ComEd delivers electricity to approximately 3.8 million residential and business customers across northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population.
Exelon Corporation is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities with approximately $19 billion in annual revenues. The company has one of the industry’s largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity, with a nationwide reach and strong positions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Exelon distributes electricity to approximately 5.4 million customers in northern Illinois and Pennsylvania and natural gas to approximately 485,000 customers in the Philadelphia area. Exelon is headquartered in Chicago and trades on the NYSE under the ticker EXC.
Trained as a lawyer, Pramaggiore joined ComEd’s legal team in 1998, recognizing the opportunity to make an impact in what was essentially the last regulated industry to undergo restructuring. She then received a promotion into ComEd’s regulatory area, where she ultimately became responsible for directing the company’s successful transition into an open and competitive electricity market. In 2007, after months of debate and negotiation, Pramaggiore helped strike an accord that provided Illinois residents with $1 billion in rate relief, while preserving the state’s competitive electricity market and protecting ComEd from a potential bankruptcy.
Prior to her current position, Pramaggiore served as executive vice president of customer operations, regulatory, and external affairs. In that role, Pramaggiore oversaw distribution and transmission rate making, customer operations, and state regulatory affairs and strategy for ComEd. Additional responsibilities included the administration of environmental stewardship activities designed to promote customer satisfaction.
Pramaggiore was promoted to her current position in May 2009. Pramaggiore is the first female to hold the post of president and the highest-ranking woman at the electric utility.
Pramaggiore serves as a member of the board of the Lookingglass Theatre, the Financial Research Institute, and the Lincoln Park Zoo, and is a member of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Committee on Conservation and Committee on Museum Education.
Pramaggiore is a 1989 graduate of DePaul University School of Law and served as editor-in-chief of the school’s Law Review. She has a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Theater from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
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William A. Von Hoene, Jr.
Executive Vice President, Finance and Legal, Exelon Corporation
William A. Von Hoene, Jr., 55, has responsibility at Exelon for the departments of finance, legal, communications and public affairs, audit and controls, and strategy. Von Hoene joined Exelon, one of the nation’s largest public utilities and the owner of the largest fleet of nuclear plants in the country, in February 2002, as vice president and deputy general counsel in charge of the company’s litigation. In March 2004, he was promoted to senior vice president, in January 2005 to acting general counsel, in February 2006 to general counsel, and in February 2008 to executive vice president. In June 2009, he assumed his current position.
Prior to joining Exelon, Von Hoene was a senior partner at Jenner & Block, specializing in complex civil and white-collar criminal litigation. While at Jenner & Block, he served on the management committee and, at various times, as hiring partner and chairperson of the firm’s pro bono and diversity committees.
Von Hoene has served on numerous civic and public interest boards of directors. He is past president of the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc., and past general counsel to the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities. He currently serves on the boards of directors of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Foundation, and has previously served on the boards of directors of the Chicago Legal Clinic, the Chicago Bar Foundation and the Joffrey Ballet. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.
While Von Hoene served as general counsel, the Exelon Legal department received the 2007 Association of Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Award, which recognizes the most outstanding corporate pro bono program in the country, and in 2009 was named one of three finalists for Corporate Counsel magazine’s best legal department. Von Hoene received the 2008 Vanguard Award from the Chicago Bar Association, recognizing outstanding contributions in making the legal profession more accessible and reflective of the community at large. In 2009, he received the Spirit of Excellence award from the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, and was named by the National Law Journal as one of the twenty most influential general counsel in the country.
Von Hoene is a 1980 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he served on the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif, and a 1976 graduate of Yale University.
Von Hoene is married to Nikki Zollar and has three children, William L. Von Hoene, Branden Zollar and Grant Sanders.
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Andrea L. Zopp
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Exelon Corporation
As general counsel, Andrea Zopp, 52, has responsibility for all of Exelon’s legal affairs and corporate governance functions. She is a member of the company’s executive committee.
Zopp joined Exelon in 2006 as Senior Vice President, Human Resources. In January 2008, she was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. In this role, she led the company’s human resources, diversity, labor and employee relations and security functions.
Prior to joining Exelon, Zopp was senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Sears Holding Corporation, a $50 billion retail company formed by the merger of Sears Roebuck and Company and Kmart. In this position she had responsibility for legal affairs, governance, public relations, government affairs, and compliance.
Before joining Sears, Zopp was vice president, deputy general counsel in the law department at Sara Lee Corporation. There she managed senior attorneys at the operating divisions, risk management, environmental services and safety. She also supervised litigation and provided counseling on strategic issues. Prior to Sara Lee, Zopp was a partner in the litigation department of the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, specializing in the areas of commercial, employment and white-collar criminal litigation. Zopp was also the First Assistant State’s Attorney in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office where she was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the nation’s second largest prosecutor’s office.
From 2005-2007, Zopp served as a director of Andrew Corporation, a publicly traded $2 billion, international manufacturer and supplier of telecommunication systems, components and solutions, where she served on the compensation and nominating and governance committees.
Zopp serves as chairman of the board of directors of the Chicago Area Project, a community-based delinquency prevention program. She is also president of the board of directors of Leadership Greater Chicago and a member of the Harvard Alumni Association board of directors. Zopp also serves on the board of trustees of the National Urban League and the Black Ensemble Theater. She is a member and chair of the Human Resources Committee of the Cook County Health and Hospitals Systems board. Zopp is a member of the Black Women Lawyer’s Association, The Chicago Network, and The Economic Club. Zopp is a member and former president of the Chicago Inn of Court and is active in the American Bar Association, where she served as a member of the Section of Litigation Council. She is also a former member of the board of managers of the Chicago Bar Association. In March 2000, she was named by Illinois Governor George Ryan to serve on the Commission to Review the Illinois Death Penalty Process. In May 2003, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley named her as co-chair of a panel reviewing the City’s building and safety code enforcement in the wake of the E-2 Nightclub tragedy. In September 2004, she became chair of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Magnet and Selective Enrollment School Admissions for the Chicago Public Schools. Zopp is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Zopp received the Woman of Achievement Award from the Anti-Defamation League (2008), Visionary Award from the Black Women Lawyer’s Association (2004), the Luminary Award from the Girl Scouts of Chicago (2005) and she was named one of Chicago United’s 2005 Business Leaders of Color from Chicago United.
Zopp received a bachelor’s degree in history and science and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard University. She began her legal career as a law clerk to United States District Judge George N. Leighton in the Northern District of Illinois. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Harvard Law School, Northwestern University and the University of Chicago School of Law.
Zopp and her husband, Bill, have three children, Alyssa, Kelsey and Will.
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