Ed Day - President and CEO
Ed Day became Mississippi Power's 11th president on August 13, 2010.
Day came to his new position from Southern Company Generation, where he was executive vice president, responsible for Southern Company's Engineering and Construction. His responsibilities at Southern Company Generation included engineering, procurement and construction of new generation (gas, coal gasification, biomass and nuclear construction oversight), environmental and retrofit projects across the Southern Company fleet of fossil and hydro generating plants and various technical support functions.
Day joined Southern Company Services in 1983 as an engineer in the Hatch Nuclear Support Project. He progressed through positions of increasing responsibility before being named engineering group supervisor, Mechanical Design, in 1990. He was named assistant to the executive vice president, Engineering, in 1992. Four years later, he was named wholesale business development manager for Southern Wholesale Energy. In 1998, he was promoted to director, Business Development and to vice president, Business Development, in 2001. He assumed his role as executive vice president, Southern Company Generation, in May 2003.
Day holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama and an MBA from Samford University. He is a 2004 graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. Day currently serves on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Central Alabama and United Way of Central Alabama.
Donald R. Horsley
Vice President, Customer Services & Retail Marketing
Johnny W. Atherton
Vice President, External Affairs
Moses Feagin
Vice President, Treasurer & Chief Financial Officer
R. Allen Reaves
Vice President, Generation & Senior Production Officer
Ed Day - President and CEO
