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John W. Rowe, 62, is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Exelon Corporation - one of the nation's largest electric utilities, with 5.4 million customers and revenues of more than $15 billion. Forbes ranked Exelon as the number one utility company on its 2005 list of The Best Managed Companies in America and ranked Exelon as the number one utility company in the United States on its 2004 list of The World’s 2000 Leading Companies.
Rowe has led electric utilities since 1984, consecutively serving as chief executive officer of Central Maine Power Company, the New England Electric System and Unicom Corporation (one of Exelon's predecessors). Rowe is a lawyer, and was general counsel of Consolidated Rail Corporation and a partner in the firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale. Rowe's business activities have been marked by his attention to balance sheet strength, earnings consistency, service reliability and environmental performance.
Rowe is a member of the boards of directors of Sunoco and the Northern Trust Company. He has previously served on the boards of UnumProvident, Fleet Boston Financial Corporation, Wisconsin Central Transportation Company and MidSouth Corporation. His civic and professional commitments emphasize historical education and diversity, and include serving as chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, chairman of the Chicago History Museum, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Illinois Institute of Technology, vice chairman of The Commercial Club of Chicago and as a member of the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory, the Chicago Urban League, the Field Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, the Edison Electric Institute, the Chicago Club and the visiting committees of the Oriental Institute and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. He has previously been chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, president of the USS Constitution Museum, and chairman of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable.
Rowe is also a member of the board of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, WiCell Research and has received the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award. He holds honorary doctorates from DePaul University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Drexel University, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Thomas College and Bryant College. He was named the University of Arizona’s 2007 Executive of the Year, received the Founder’s Award for Business Leadership from The Union League of Philadelphia in 2005, a Civic Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee in 2004, the City Club of Chicago's Citizen of the Year award in 2002, the Corporate Leadership Award from the Spanish Coalition for Jobs in 2002 and the Anti-Defamation League's World of Difference award in 2000. He has chaired fund raising events for the Urban League of Chicago, the Spanish Coalition For Jobs, El Valor, the Merit School of Music, and the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce.
Rowe holds a bachelor’s and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Wisconsin and its law school, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif and is the founder of the Rowe Professorship in Byzantine history.
Rowe is married to Jeanne M. Rowe and has one son, William. | 