MILWAUKEE, Oct. 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Warner Baxter, the retired
executive chairman and chief executive officer of Ameren Corp., and
John Lange, the retired global head
of the Energy and Industrials Groups for Barclays PLC, have been
appointed to the board of directors of WEC Energy Group (NYSE:
WEC). Their appointments are effective Jan.
1, 2025.
"We're very pleased that Warner and John have agreed to join our
board," said Gale Klappa, chairman.
"With their extensive experience in the energy sector, they will
add significant depth and expertise to a highly engaged and
effective board of directors."
Warner Baxter
Baxter spent more than 28 years at Ameren Corp., a Fortune 500
energy company that serves millions of electric and natural gas
customers in Illinois and
Missouri. He retired last year as
executive chairman. He also served as chairman, president and CEO
from 2014 to 2021, and previously served as Ameren's president of
Ameren Missouri, executive vice president and chief financial
officer, and vice president and controller.
Baxter serves on the boards of directors of U.S. Bancorp, Quanta
Services, Inc. and several non-profit organizations.
Baxter is past chair of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and
currently serves on the Edison Foundation Board. He also served as
chair of the board and on the Executive Committee of the Electric
Power Research Institute (EPRI).
Baxter earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from
the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL). In 2024, Baxter also
received an honorary doctorate in business administration from
UMSL.
John Lange
Lange retired earlier this year as global head of the Energy and
Industrials Groups for Barclays PLC after more than 28 years in
investment banking. During his tenure at Barclays, Lange also
served on the Investment Banking Management Committee. Before his
role at Barclays, Lange led the Global Power M&A Group at
Lehman Brothers.
During his career, Lange worked on numerous strategic advisory,
M&A, equity, debt and project financing assignments for
domestic and international clients across the utility, natural
resources and industrial sectors.
Lange received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University and his MBA from the Fuqua
School of Business at Duke University.
Lange served on the EPRI Advisory Council and was co-chair of the
Wall Street Advisory Group for EEI.
WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC), based in Milwaukee, is one of the nation's premier
energy companies, serving 4.7 million customers in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota.
The company's principal utilities are We Energies, Wisconsin
Public Service, Peoples Gas, North Shore Gas, Michigan Gas
Utilities, Minnesota Energy Resources and Upper Michigan Energy
Resources. Another major subsidiary, We Power, designs, builds and
owns electric generating plants. In addition, WEC Infrastructure
LLC owns a growing fleet of renewable generation facilities in
states ranging from South Dakota
to Texas.
WEC Energy Group (wecenergygroup.com) is a Fortune 500
company and a component of the S&P 500. The company has
approximately 34,000 stockholders of record, 7,000 employees and
more than $45 billion of
assets.
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