Mr. Klappa is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Wisconsin Energy Corporation and its principal utility subsidiary, We Energies. Prior to joining Wisconsin Energy in 2003, he served as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of The Southern Company in Atlanta, Georgia. Previously in his career, Mr. Klappa was The Southern Company's chief strategic officer, the North American group president of Southern Energy Inc. (now Mirant) and president and CEO of South Western Electricity, The Southern Company's electric distribution utility in the United Kingdom. Mr. Klappa is a 1972 graduate cum laude of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, holding a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications. |