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Paul W. Thompson was named to his current position in 1999. He is responsible for all generation, energy marketing, and transmission operations. He has over 20 years experience in the electric and natural gas utility industry. Prior to this he worked in the oil and gas industry.
Thompson started his career as Manager, Financial Planning at Northwest Industries in Chicago. Prior to joining LG&E Energy as Director, Business Development in 1991, he also had worked for Lone Star Technologies, a Northwest Industries Subsidiary, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Dallas; and for Koch Industries Inc. in Tulsa and Boston. Thompson subsequently held several upper-management positions both at Louisville Gas and Electric Company and LG&E Energy before being promoted to his current position.
Thompson has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a master's degree in business administration in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago. He has also completed the Executive Program on Leading Corporate Transformation at the E.ON Academy Harvard University. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
He is a board member of Electric Energy Inc. and Ohio Valley Electric Corporation. Thompson is on the Advisory Board for the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research. Thompson is a past board member and Chairman of the Board of the FutureGen Industrial Alliance.
In civic roles, he is Chairman of the Louisville Free Public Library Foundation Board, a board member and Finance Committee Chair of the Louisville Downtown Development Corporation, a board member of the Jefferson County Public Education Foundation, and an Executive Committee board member for Greater Louisville Inc. and a 1998 graduate of Leadership Louisville.