Gale E. Klappa

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
  Wisconsin Energy Corporation
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
  We Energies

Since May 2004, Gale Klappa has served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Energy Corporation, one of the nation’s premier energy companies. He also holds the same positions with Wisconsin Energy’s principal utility, We Energies.

Mr. Klappa joined Wisconsin Energy Corporation in April 2003 as president. He was elected to the company’s board of directors in December 2003.

Prior to joining Wisconsin Energy, he served as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Southern Company in Atlanta, Ga. Previously in his career, Mr. Klappa was 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 -- Southern Company’s electric distribution utility in the United Kingdom. Before his assignment in the U.K., he was senior vice president of marketing for Georgia Power Company, a subsidiary of Southern Company.

Mr. Klappa is a 1972 graduate cum laude of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), with a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications.

Mr. Klappa serves as a director of the Edison Electric Institute and the Electric Power Research Institute. He is a member of the board of directors of Badger Meter, Inc., and Joy Global Inc. He also serves on the executive committee of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, the board of trustees of the Medical College of Wisconsin, the UWM School of Business Advisory Council, and the board of directors of the United Performing Arts Fund. Currently the vice chairman of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC), he was MMAC chairman from 2007 to 2009. Also, from 2006 to 2010, Mr. Klappa served on the board of directors of United Way of Greater Milwaukee. He is the immediate past chairman of Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited.

In 2011, Mr. Klappa received an honorary Doctor of Commercial Science degree from UWM in recognition of his support for UWM’s growth initiative; his leadership in helping to shape the economic future of southeast Wisconsin through the launch of the Milwaukee 7, a regional economic development initiative; and his extensive community involvement.

Service Date: 04/14/03