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Sean Trauschke is vice president of investor relations for Duke Energy. He is responsible for monitoring changes and trends in investment markets, as well as developing, maintaining and enhancing key relationships and communications with retail and institutional investors, financial analysts and financial institutions.
Previously, Trauschke served as vice president of risk management, chief risk officer and chief credit officer for Duke Energy. He led risk management and insurance. He was also responsible for overseeing market and credit risk management across Duke Energy.
He began his career working in the company’s commercial and industrial marketing department in 1989 while still a student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He joined full-time in the purchasing department in 1990; and after a series of promotions, he was named a manager of purchasing at Oconee Nuclear Station in Seneca, S.C., in 1996. He returned to purchasing in Charlotte in 1997 as manager of strategic sourcing. From 1998 to 2004, Trauschke worked for Duke Energy’s treasury department with increasing levels of responsibility and was named general manager of business unit finance in February 2004. He was named vice president of corporate risk management, chief risk officer and chief credit officer in June 2004. He was named to his current position in October 2006.
Trauschke serves on the board of directors of the North Carolina Zoological Society and is a member of the board of the Athletic Foundation for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Trauschke earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of South Carolina.
Trauschke was born in 1967. He is married to the former Jill Collins and they have two daughters and a son.
Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers. The company has nearly 37,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Midwest and the Carolinas, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky. In addition, Duke Energy has more than 4,000 megawatts of electric generation in Latin America, and is a joint-venture partner in a U.S. real estate company. | 