Our annual Spring luncheon is coming up soon on Monday, May 13 at “The Club”. This year we are delighted to have Tom Fanning, Chairman, President and CEO of Southern Company as our speaker who will give us an executive update on the latest happenings within Southern Company and the electric power industry.

Reservations and a reservation fee per person are required. Invitations were recently mailed and should be received by all retirees very soon. Please submit your reservation form and fee to Dora Brandt by April 30, 2019. If you have any questions or do not receive an invitation, please call Dora at 205-956-0502 or send her an E-mail at [email protected]. Cancellations will be accepted up to May 3 by calling Dora.

Schedule:

• Check-in/social time: 10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
• Lunch Seating: 11:45 a.m. – 12:00 noon
• Invocation/Lunch: 12:00 noon – 12:45 p.m.
• Speaker’s presentation and Q&A: 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
• Door prizes and adjourn: 1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Meeting location: “The Club” atop Red Mountain in Homewood, in the Ballroom.  The address is:  1 Robert S. Smith Drive, Birmingham AL 35209.

Tom Fanning’s Biography: Tom Fanning has been chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company since July 2010. With more than 38 years of experience at Southern Company, Tom has worked in areas with many of our retirees. Tom served as Chief Information Officer 1995-1997.  He served as chief operating officer 2007-2010, where he was responsible for Southern Company’s generation and transmission, engineering and construction services, research and environmental affairs, system planning and competitive generation business units. He also was responsible for leading Southern Company’s efforts on business strategy and served as a director of Southern Nuclear, Southern Company’s nuclear plant operating company.

Prior to assuming the role of Southern Co chief financial officer in 2003, Tom was president and CEO of Gulf Power 2002-2003. Tom serves as co-chair of the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council, which serves as the principal liaison between the federal government and the electric power sector to protect the electric grid from threats that could impact national security, including cyber and physical terrorism as well as natural disasters.

Tom is an internationally respected voice on topics that range from energy innovation and economic growth, to cybersecurity.  His leadership in the cybersecurity area was recognized by the U.S. Senate in 2019 with an appointment to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a group developing a protection strategy for the cyberspace interests of the United States.

Tom holds senior positions in a number of business and public policy organizations. He earned bachelors and master’s degrees in industrial management from Georgia Tech.