AES Ohio adds to
AES Ohio, a subsidiary of The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES), recently announced the addition of two senior leaders, including the first ever chief customer officer and smart grid leader.
Wendy Mehringer will serve as chief customer offi- cer and lead and accelerate efforts for the customer service team as they focus on new solutions to help customers achieve their most important objectives of reli- ability, affordability and sustainability. Mehringer will manage and improve customer interactions and advo- cate as the voice of the cus- tomer. Mehringer has built her career on bringing customer, and other stakeholder and community needs, to the forefront in organizational transformations, first as an executive at Indiana Blood Center then leading the newly created customer experience team at Roche Diagnostics. She is a graduate of Ball State University and received her MBA from Purdue University.
Kathy Storm will serve as vice president, U.S. Smart Grid and Ohio T&D Opera- tions. As smart grid leader for AES’ U.S. utilities, Storm will lead grid modernization efforts to meet the future energy needs of customers. AES Ohio has future mod- ernization plans including upgrades to provide distri- bution network self-healing capabilities, upgrading and replacing aging infrastruc- ture, and other grid resil- iency capabilities Storm previously led the U.S. Utilities Transmission and Distribu- tion Asset Management team and Operations for Metering Services and Safety. Storm has been with AES for 14 years and is a is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
AES Ohio also promoted company veteran Mark Vest. Serving as senior director of T&D Operations for AES Ohio, Vest will manage a team of 600 employees and contractors performing engineering,
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