SOUTHERN (SO)
Sector: Utilities
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Utilities
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Director information for SO
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SO | Senior Advisor, Blackstone Inc. and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Protective Life Corporation; Senior Advisor at Blackstone Inc. | 74 | ["public company CEO experience", "financial expertise", "capital allocation experience", "risk management experience", "legal background as former general counsel of large energy public holding company", "served on Board of Directors of Alabama Power"] | ["Finance (Chair)", "Nominating", "Governance and Corporate Responsibility"] | 2026 |
Companies shown below are based on exact name match for the selected Director
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RF | [] | [] | 2024 | ||
| GPC | Senior Advisor to Blackstone, Inc. | 72 | ["Former Chairman of DLI North America Inc.","Former CEO of Protective Life from 2002 to 2017","Experience as General Counsel of Sonat Inc.","Diverse experience in large life insurance company management","Current board member of The Southern Company and Regions Financial Corporation"] | ["Executive","Compensation and Human Capital"] | 2024 |
| PL | Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Protective | 62 | ["Chief Operating Officer","Director of Alabama Power Company","Director of Regions Financial Corporation","Director of Genuine Parts Company","Former director of Alabama National BanCorporation","Former director of John H. Harland Company","Former director of National Bank of Commerce of Birmingham"] | [] | 2014 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Senior Advisor at Blackstone Inc. (Blackstone) and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Protective Life Corporation (Protective Life) Age: 74 Director since: February 2015 Board committees: Finance (Chair); Nominating, Governance and Corporate Responsibility Other public company directorships: None Director Highlights Mr. Johns qualifications include public company CEO experience, financial expertise, capital allocation experience and risk management experience in a highly-regulated industry. His legal background as the former general counsel of a large energy public holding company that included natural gas operations and his prior service for over a decade on the Board of Directors of Alabama Power are also of significant value to the Board. 4 Mr. Johns has served as a Senior Advisor at Blackstone, an investment firm, since April 2022. 4 He retired in 2020 as Chairman, DLI North America Inc., the oversight company for Protective Life, a provider of financial services through insurance and investment products. Mr. Johns served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Protective Life from 2002 to 2017 and President from 2002 to January 2016. He joined Protective Life in 1993 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. 4 Before his tenure at Protective Life, he served as general counsel of Sonat, Inc., a diversified energy company. Prior to joining Sonat, he was a founding partner of the law firm Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C. 4 Mr. Johns previously served on the Board of Alabama Power from 2004 to 2015 where he was a member of the Nominating and Executive Committees. 4 He served on the Board of Genuine Parts Company, where he was Lead Independent Director and a member of the Compensation and Human Capital and Executive Committees, until 2025. He served on the Board of Regions Financial Corporation until 2024. 4 Mr. Johns served on the Executive Committee of the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C. and is a past chairman of the American Council of Life Insurers. He has also served as Chairman of the Business Council of Alabama, the Birmingham Business Alliance, the Greater Alabama Council of Scouting America and Innovation Depot, Alabama s leading business and technology incubator.