Anthony Earley - Southern Independent Director

Mr. Anthony F. Earley, Jr., is Independent Director of the company, Effective January 02, 2019. Mr. Earleys qualifications include senior leadership experience, energy industry expertise including regulation, nuclear generation, technology, environmental matters and major capital projects. His experience as the president and chief executive officer of energy companies and his involvement in electric industrywide research and development programs are valuable to the Board. On December 11, 2018, we announced that the Board elected Mr. Earley as an independent Director, effective January 2, 2019. Mr. Earley served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of PGE Corporation from 2011 until February 2017, when he became Executive Chairman. He served as Executive Chairman until his retirement from PGE in December 2017. On January 29, 2019, PGE Corporation and its subsidiary Pacific Gas and Electric Company filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. Before joining PGE Corporationrationration, he served in several executive leadership roles during 17 years at DTE Energy, including Executive Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer. He served in various executive roles at Long Island Lighting Company, including President and Chief Operating Officer. He was also a partner at the Hunton Williams LLP law firm as a member of the energy and environmental team, where he participated in the licensing of both nuclear and nonnuclear generating plants and represented nuclear utilities in rulemaking actions before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Prior to beginning his lengthy career in the utility industry, Mr. Earley earned a degree in physics and served in the U.S. Navy as the chief engineer officer of the nuclear submarine, USS Hawkbill. Mr since 2019.