ST. LOUIS, June 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of
directors of Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE) announced today that
Ward H. Dickson has been elected to
the Ameren board of directors effective June
7, 2018.
Dickson has served as the executive vice president and chief
financial officer of WestRock Company since July 2015.
WestRock, a Fortune 200 manufacturing company with 45,000 employees
worldwide, is a multinational provider of paper and packaging
solutions for the consumer and corrugated packaging
markets.
He previously served as executive vice president and chief
financial officer of RockTenn Company, the predecessor of WestRock
Company, from September 2013 to
July 2015, and in various positions
at Cisco Systems from February 2006
to September 2013, most recently as
senior vice president of finance.
"Ward brings more than 30 years of financial and strategic
leadership to the Ameren Board of Directors," said Warner L. Baxter, chairman, president and chief
executive officer of Ameren. "He has a demonstrated track
record of driving results in publicly held global manufacturing and
technology companies, expertise that will be of tremendous value to
our board of directors, shareholders and customers."
Dickson's election increases the size of the Ameren board of
directors from 12 members to 13. He will serve on the Audit and
Risk Committee and Finance Committee.
St. Louis-based Ameren
Corporation powers the quality of life for 2.4 million electric
customers and more than 900,000 natural gas customers in a
64,000-square-mile area through its Ameren Missouri and Ameren
Illinois rate-regulated utility subsidiaries. Ameren Illinois
provides electric distribution and transmission service, as well as
natural gas distribution service, while Ameren Missouri provides
vertically integrated electric service, with generating capacity of
nearly 10,300 megawatts, and natural gas distribution service.
Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois develops regional electric
transmission projects. For more information, visit Ameren.com, or
follow us on Twitter at @AmerenCorp, Facebook.com/AmerenCorp, or
LinkedIn.com/company/Ameren.
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