W. Paul Bowers

W. Paul Bowers serves as a member of the board of directors of BrandSafway.

Mr. Bowers has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Georgia Power since 2011 and also served as President of Georgia Power from 2011 to 2020. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Southern Company and has held executive leadership positions at multiple subsidiaries in the Southern Company system since joining Gulf Power in 1979, including serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of South Western Electricity LLC, which he later transformed into Western Power Distributor, President of Southern Company Generation and Chief Executive Officer of Southern Power.

Mr. Bowers serves on the boards of the Nuclear Energy Institute, AFLAC (lead director), Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta Committee for Progress, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Research Alliance, Lieutenant Governor’s Georgia Innovates Task Force, and the Georgia Ports Authority. He is curator for the Georgia Historical Society, and previously was a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Energy Policy Counsel, the Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd. (past Chairman), and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.