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Since May 2004, Gale Klappa has served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Energy Corporation, one of the nation’s premier energy companies. He also holds the same positions with Wisconsin Energy’s principal utility subsidiary, We Energies.
Mr. Klappa joined Wisconsin Energy Corporation in April 2003 as president. He was elected to the company’s board of directors in December 2003.
Prior to joining Wisconsin Energy, he served as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Southern Company in Atlanta, Ga. Previously in his career, Mr. Klappa was Southern Company’s chief strategic officer, the North American group president of Southern Energy Inc. (now Mirant) and president and CEO of South Western Electricity, Southern Company’s electric distribution utility in the United Kingdom. Before his assignment in the UK, he was senior vice president of marketing for Georgia Power Company, a subsidiary of Southern Company.
Mr. Klappa is a 1972 graduate cum laude of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, holding a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications.
Mr. Klappa serves as chairman of the finance committee and vice chairman of the board of directors of Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited and as a director of the Edison Electric Institute and the American Gas Association. He is a member of the board and the executive committee of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, a director of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce and the United Way of Greater Milwaukee, a member of the Advisory Council of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Business, and a member of the board of trustees of the Medical College of Wisconsin.
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