John M. Butler is senior vice president of human resources and administrative
services for CMS Energy and its principal subsidiary Consumers Energy.
He was elected to this position in 2006.
Butler is responsible for overseeing CMS Energy's human resources strategy
and the key human resources activities for the company including employee
benefi ts compensation organization and work force development diversity
equal employment opportunity safety and health business operations work
force relations labor relations and all human resources services for more than
8 600 CMS Energy and Consumers Energy employees. His responsibilities for
administrative services include managing supply chain purchasing real estate
fl eet services security asset protection aviation services and corporate travel.
Before joining CMS Energy Butler was the global human resources director
for manufacturing and engineering at The Dow Chemical Company in Midland
Mich. He held a series of increasingly responsible management positions with
both domestic and global responsibility in the United States and Europe during
his 15-year tenure with Dow. In these positions Butler is credited with effectively
linking human resources plans to business strategy.
Butler earned a master's degree in business administration in 1991 from Indiana
University with a focus on human resources and fi nance. Prior to graduate
school he had a successful sales career in the transportation industry working
for Emory Worldwide. Butler earned a bachelor's degree in business in 1986
from the University of Tennessee with a major in marketing and logistics.
Butler his wife and daughter live in Okemos Mich. |