Lynn Good

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Lynn J. Good
Alma mater Miami University
Occupation(s)Chair, president and CEO of Duke Energy
Years activeCEO of Duke Energy on July 1, 2013
Board member ofDuke Energy
Boeing
SpouseBrian [1]
Children3

Lynn J. Good is chair, president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy, a Fortune 500 company. Good is an Ohio native and graduated from Miami University where she earned a BS in Systems Analysis and Accounting (1981). [1] In 2023, she ranked 65th in Forbes list of "World's 100 most powerful women". [2] She was ranked 31st on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023. [3]

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Early life and education

Good grew up in Fairfield, Ohio. Her father was a math teacher who later became a high school principal. She earned degrees in accounting and systems analysis from Miami University of Ohio. [4]

Career

Early career

Good became an auditor at the Cincinnati branch of Arthur Andersen & Co. While at Andersen, Good broke the barrier to females playing major roles in auditing when she participated in the audit of Andersen's most prestigious account, Cincinnati Gas & Electric. [5] Good rose to supervise that audit, and in 1992 she became one of Andersen's few women partners. [4] In 2002 she became a partner at Deloitte. [6] [7]

Cinergy

Following the collapse of Arthur Andersen in 2002, Good joined Cinergy Corp. as senior vice president of accounting and finance. In 2005, Good was named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Cinergy. In 2006, following the merger of Cinergy into Duke Energy, Good was named senior vice president and treasurer of Duke in the company's Charlotte, North Carolina, headquarters. She went on to head the unregulated commercial business. Good was named Duke's executive vice president and chief financial officer as of July 2009. [7] She began to make large investments in renewable energy such as wind and solar facilities that sell their power to utilities and towns. [4]

Duke Energy

In 2011 Duke of Charlotte and Progress Energy of Raleigh agreed to merge. The deal stipulated that Progress CEO Bill Johnson was to replace Duke CEO Jim Rogers. But in June 2012, on the day that the deal closed, the board fired Johnson and re-hired Rogers instead. North Carolina regulators, following an investigation, reached an agreement with Duke in which the company was required to choose a new CEO by the middle of 2013. Good was selected by a board composed of both Duke and Progress members. [4] Lynn Good became CEO of Duke Energy on July 1, 2013. [4] Good was also elected to the Duke board. In 2016, she was elected chairman of the board. In 2018, Duke Energy awarded Good just under $14 million in total compensation. [8]

Energy policy positions

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) held a wide-ranging interview with Good on June 21, 2018; among the topics were carbon capture and sequestration. [9] Carbon capture and storage technology can capture up to 90 percent of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions made from a fossil fuels electricity generation plant, thus releasing much less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. [10] Good told CSIS that the carbon capture and sequestration process was not quite ready for general use, even though it has the potential to keep fossil fuels in the power-generation mix. According to Daily Energy Insider, "On paper, a gas or coal plant that does not release carbon dioxide into the air would be a logical asset to fill in any lags in purely green power production”, but Good indicated that while Duke was still collaborating on various research projects involving carbon capture, the big breakthroughs necessary to launch a commercially viable carbon-capture plant were not yet in sight." [9]

Other affiliations

Good was a member of the board of the Cincinnati Ballet for about eight years, from the 1990s, [7] and has been a member of the board of directors at Boeing since 2015. [11] She is on the board of directors of the Business Roundtable and has served as chair of its Smart Regulation Committee since 2020. [12]

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  2. ↑ "The World's Most Powerful Women 2023". Forbes.
  3. ↑ "Most Powerful Women". Fortune .
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Tully, Shawn (8 November 2014). "Is Lynn Good the smartest (new) CEO in the energy industry?". Fortune. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  5. ↑ Tully, Shawn (8 November 2014). "Is Lynn Good the smartest (new) CEO in the energy industry?". Fortune. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  6. ↑ "Carley, eight other Andersen employees join Deloitte". www.bizjournals.com. 3 June 2002. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  7. 1 2 3 Tweh, Bowdeya (18 June 2013). "Duke Energy names new CEO". USA Today. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  8. ↑ Downey, John (2019-03-21). "Why Duke Energy's CEO saw a big drop in compensation last year". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
  9. 1 2 Anderson, Hil (2018-06-22). "Duke Energy CEO sees carbon sequestration worth pursuing". Daily Energy Insider. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  10. ↑ "What is CCS? – The Carbon Capture & Storage Association (CCSA)". www.ccsassociation.org. Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  11. ↑ "Boeing: Corporate Governance". www.boeing.com. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  12. ↑ Downey, John (10 January 2023). "Duke Energy's Lynn Good, Honeywell's Darius Adamczyk named to Business Roundtable's board of directors". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
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