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Dana Waldo is president and chief operating officer for Appalachian Power, serving approximately 1 million customers in West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee. He has authority for distribution operations and a wide range of customer and regulatory relationships.
Waldo was previously president and CEO of the West Virginia Roundtable, a private, non-profit, non-partisan association whose members include the chief executive officers of West Virginia's leading business, education and economic development organizations.
Prior to joining the Roundtable, Waldo was AEP’s state president in West Virginia. In that capacity, he was responsible for AEP's external affairs and public policy activities in West Virginia, including liaison with customers, regulators, legislators and members of the public. With AEP for 25 years, Waldo held various accounting, financial forecasting and operational positions, including vice president of Appalachian Power and president and COO of Wheeling Power Co., an AEP public utility subsidiary.
Waldo has served on the board of directors of Advantage Valley, the Business and Industrial Development Corporation of Kanawha Valley, the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, the West Virginia Manufacturers Association and the West Virginia Roundtable. He also served as a trustee of the University of Charleston and as a member of the visiting committee of the College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. In 1998, Governor Underwood appointed him to the West Virginia Council for Community and Economic Development.
Waldo received a bachelor’s of science in Business Administration with a major in accounting from Franklin University and a master’s of business administration from Ohio University. He also attended management development programs at the Ohio State University and the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
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