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<\/a><\/p>\nKim shared her experience with us spanning from her education in engineering science & mechanics at the Univ. of Tenn, Knoxville \u00a0to advanced degrees in biomedical engineering at UAB and Business Administration at Samford University. \u00a0Kim Green\u2019s biography reads like a \u201cWho\u2019s Who of Young Executives\u201d already on the rise.\u00a0 She\u2019s a wife to a Southern Company pilot and mother of two children who has deep family roots in Knoxville, Tennessee but calls Birmingham her professional home.\u00a0 Kim chose to begin her career with SCS-Birmingham in engineering, advancing through operations and finance.\u00a0 During eight years at Southern Energy, Inc. she progressed in finance, structuring, trading and asset management.<\/p>\n
In 2007 Kim was offered and accepted the CFO and Chief Risk Officer position with TVA in Knoxville.\u00a0 This was a tough professional decision, but Kim placed a higher priority on her family\u2019s happiness and well-being than her own. \u00a0After about 5 years with TVA she decided to return to her professional home. \u00a0Kim\u2019s time with Southern was positive because of the high caliber and character of employees she worked with, and she enthusiastically remembered several of them in the audience.<\/p>\n
From Kim\u2019s tour of TVA\u2019s unfinished Bellefonte Plant, to the new technology plants Southern Company is building in Kemper Co. Mississippi and Augusta, Georgia–each illustrated the history and future of of electric energy production in America.\u00a0 One is where cost overruns and adaptations to government regulations caused other utilities to back down before completion of new plants–later to wish they had gone ahead and completed them.\u00a0\u00a0 The other is where Southern has the foresight, perseverance, and skill to push difficult projects to completion.<\/p>\n
Kim covered details from the generation mix, fuel prices, advances in wind power, and stock prices (the year to date trend for Southern stock was higher than the S&P and the DOW).\u00a0 \u00a0She also shared some photos of Vogtle\u2019s Unit 3 & 4 progress in Waynesboro, Georgia.<\/p>\n
We all enjoyed Kim’s presentation and are proud to have such leadership in charge of the company.<\/p>\n
The food was great too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our annual Spring luncheon meeting was held\u00a0on Monday, May 5, 2014 at the Pelham Civic Center.\u00a0 Our featured guest speaker was\u00a0Kimberly (Kim) Greene, former President and CEO of Southern Company Services who was recently appointed Chief Operating Officer and Executive … Continue reading