{"136291":{"#nid":"136291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumnus, Stan Connally, Named Gulf Power President","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGulf Power Company is getting a new president.\u0026nbsp; Stan Connally (BSME \u002793 and Woodruff School Executive Advisory Board member), a senior vice president at Georgia Power, will be the company\u2019s 16\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E president, succeeding Mark Crosswhite who has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Southern Company, Gulf Power\u2019s parent firm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConnally, who has headed up Georgia Power\u2019s fossil and hydro generation operations since 2010, began his career with Southern Company in 1989 as a co-op student at Georgia Power\u2019s Plant Yates. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in various areas, including Customer Operations, Sales and Marketing, and Power Generation at Georgia Power, Alabama Power, and Mississippi Power.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGulf Power has a reputation in the utility industry of great employees, great customer service and innovative programs,\u201d Connally said.\u0026nbsp;\u201cI look forward to joining the team and my family and I are excited about living in Northwest Florida.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA native of Newnan, Ga., Connally graduated in 1993 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He completed the Goizueta Executive Education Program at Emory University in 2004 and the Southern Company Senior Leadership Development Program in 2009. He has served on the boards of the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport and United Way of Jackson\/George counties in Mississippi.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead More from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.southerncompany.com\/news\/iframe_pressroom.aspx\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 data-cke-saved-href=\u0022http:\/\/www.southerncompany.com\/news\/iframe_pressroom.aspx\u0022\u003ESouthern Company Pressroom\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStan Connally, alumnus and Woodruff School Executive Advisory Board member, will be Gulf Power\u0027s 16th president, succeeding Mark Crosswhite who has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Southern Company, Gulf Power\u2019s parent firm.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Stan Connally, alumnus and Woodruff School Executive Advisory Board member, will be Gulf Power\u0027s 16th president, succeeding Mark Crosswhite who has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Southern Company, Gulf Power\u2019s pare"}],"uid":"27620","created_gmt":"2012-06-19 10:36:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:26","author":"Melissa Zbeeb","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"136301":{"id":"136301","type":"image","title":"Stan Connally","body":null,"created":"1449178685","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:38:05","changed":"1475894766","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:06","alt":"Stan Connally","file":{"fid":"194821","name":"stanconnally_alumeab.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/stanconnally_alumeab_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/stanconnally_alumeab_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4944,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/stanconnally_alumeab_0.jpg?itok=D9awuhOe"}}},"media_ids":["136301"],"groups":[{"id":"108731","name":"School of Mechanical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"32791","name":"ME Alumni"},{"id":"169510","name":"stan connally"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:\/\/communications@me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EME Communications Office\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}