Amanda Rome, executive vice president, chief legal officer (CLO) and chief compliance officer (CCO) at Nasdaq-listed Xcel Energy, has been appointed executive vice president, group president of utilities and chief customer officer at the company.
Xcel Energy’s four operating company presidents and customer organization leaders now report to Rome in her new position.
According to the company, Rome has filled the position vacated by Brett Carter, who is leaving Xcel Energy ‘to pursue other opportunities’. The company says Carter will remain available for the leadership transition until the end of the year. He did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Ryan Long, vice president and deputy general counsel, is stepping in as general counsel and will oversee the company’s legal and corporate compliance group on an interim basis.
Rome joined Xcel Energy in 2015 as the lead regulatory attorney for the firm’s northern jurisdictions and was promoted to general counsel in 2020 before becoming CLO and CCO in 2021. Before joining the company, she was a litigator at Faegre Baker Daniels in Minneapolis and Winston & Strawn in Chicago.
In his position as deputy general counsel, Long has managed Xcel Energy’s legal teams responsible for federal and state regulatory, environmental and real estate matters. Before joining the company in 2015, he worked as a litigator for Faegre Baker Daniels in Minneapolis and Cravath Swaine & Moore in New York City.
Bob Frenzel, Xcel Energy’s chair, president and CEO, says in a statement: ‘Xcel Energy has extraordinary opportunities in the next decade to lead the clean energy transition, and I’m excited by the team we have assembled to deliver on our business and customer strategy. Our workers are committed to providing a reliable, safe energy service while keeping bills low for customers as we achieve our ambitious clean energy goals.’
Ben Maiden
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