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Ed Staton was named to his current position in 2011. He has more than 28 years' experience in the electric and gas utility industry.
Staton began his career with Kentucky Utilities Company as a student laborer in Substation Construction. He subsequently held positions in the Transmission Engineering, Line Construction, and Service departments, and management positions at the company's Eddyville and Elizabethtown offices. He served in senior management roles in Distribution Operations and Transmission before being named to his current position.
In his current role, Staton leads the people, strategic planning and activities necessary to support LG&E and KU's electric transmission systems and to effectively meet evolving operational and regulatory demands. He oversees the direction of line and substation engineering and construction, system planning and operations, policy and tariff administration, and reliability compliance. Staton also is responsible for establishing and implementing strategic objectives and long- and short-range investment planning for his business. He currently serves on the SERC board of directors and is a member of both the Board Executive and the Human Resource Compensation Committees.
Staton holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Southern Indiana and a master's degree in business administration from the Gordon Ford School of Business, Western Kentucky University. He has also completed the Executive Management Program in Innovation and Corporate Strategy at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Staton's civic involvement includes service as a board member of the Larue County Industrial Foundation and Project Lead the Way, board chairman of Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass in Lexington, Ky., and is a member of the Kentucky Industrial Development Council. He also has served as vice chairman of the Eddyville Industrial Foundation, president of the Lyon County Chamber of Commerce, a board member of the Elizabethtown Chamber of Commerce, a Louisville Junior Achievement classroom instructor, and participant in the Elizabethtown Leadership Program.