Susan Story
Susan Story is president and CEO of Southern Company Services. In that role, she is responsible for overseeing the company’s information technology, human resources, supply chain management, marketing services, as well as SouthernLINC Wireless, Southern Company’s wireless telecommunications provider, and Southern Telecom, the company’s wholesale fiber optic network provider.
Story also leads Southern Company’s efforts to coordinate activities related to “smart” technology investment and deployment, including smart grid, smart meters, and emerging technologies involving energy efficiency and customer energy choices.
From 2003-2010, Story served as president and CEO of Gulf Power, where several environmental projects were completed under her leadership, including the installation of a state-of-the-art scrubber system at the company’s largest generation facility, the design and construction of Southern Company’s first landfill gas generation facility, and the launch of the Mercury Research Center located at Gulf Power’s Plant Crist which has hosted research projects from around the world.
Story joined Southern Company in 1982 as a nuclear power plant engineer. She has served in numerous capacities with increasing responsibilities, including executive vice president, engineering and construction services, and vice president, supply chain management, at Southern Company, and vice president, real estate and corporate services at Alabama Power.
Story serves on the Edison Foundation’s Institute for Electric Efficiency Strategy Committee, the National Center for Energy Workforce Development board, and is a member of the Committee of 200, a national businesswomen’s leadership organization. She also serves on the board of directors of Raymond James Financial, Inc., and the Board of Advisors of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. Story was inducted into the State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame in 2010 and was recognized as the 2010 Woman of the Year by the Girl Scout Council of the Florida Panhandle. She has received the Leaders and Legends Award for Environmental Leadership, the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce Business Leader of the Year, and the International Women’s Day Award from the World Trade Center Miami.
Story has an industrial engineering degree from Auburn University where she was recognized with the Distinguished Auburn Engineer Award and the Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award. She received an MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and has completed executive education programs at Duke University and Oxford University, along with international business studies at Cambridge University and leadership studies at Harvard University.
