ST. LOUIS, Nov. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameren
Corporation (NYSE: AEE) announced today that effective Jan. 1, 2022, Mark
Birk has been promoted to chairman and president of Ameren
Missouri, an electric and natural gas delivery utility subsidiary
of Ameren Corporation and Missouri's largest utility. He succeeds
Marty Lyons, who will become
Ameren's chief executive officer on Jan.
1. Birk is a 35-year veteran of the company.
Birk, currently Ameren Missouri's senior vice president for
customer and power operations, has held many leadership positions
at Ameren, including progressively more responsible roles
overseeing energy delivery, power operations, strategic planning,
energy trading, enterprise risk management, safety and nuclear
corporate oversight. He is responsible for the engineering,
construction, operations and maintenance of Ameren Missouri's
electric and natural gas distribution systems and non-nuclear
generation and energy management, as well as customer experience
operations for more than 1 million electric and natural gas
customers. He has been a member of Ameren's Executive Leadership
Team since 2014.
"Mark is an outstanding leader who is passionate about customer
service and operational excellence," Lyons said. "I am excited for
him to lead Ameren Missouri. In the course of his career at Ameren,
Mark has led numerous operating and corporate functions, always
focusing on continuous improvement for the benefit of our
customers, communities and shareholders."
Before assuming his current position in 2017, Birk served in a
number of roles with Ameren across a variety of functions. He began
his career with the company in 1986 supporting the Callaway Energy
Center. In 1989, he joined the company's Meramec Energy
Center. In 1996, he was promoted to supervisor in transmission
operations and subsequently held a series of successively more
responsible positions. He was promoted to general manager of energy
delivery technical services in 2001; to vice president of energy
trading in 2003; to vice president of power operations in 2005; to
senior vice president, corporate strategy and enterprise risk
management in 2012; and to senior vice president, corporate safety,
strategy and nuclear operations oversight in 2014.
Birk has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a
master of science in electrical engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology. In
2009, he earned a master of business administration from
Washington University in St. Louis. In addition, he completed the
Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives at MIT.
Birk and his wife, Valerie, are residents of south St. Louis County. He is a cabinet member of
United Way of Greater St. Louis,
as well as a member of the Downtown St. Louis Advisory Board of
Greater St. Louis Inc. He was previously the president and an
executive committee member of the STL Community College
Foundation.
About Ameren Missouri
Ameren Missouri has been
providing electric and gas service for more than 100 years, and the
company's electric rates are among the lowest in the nation. Ameren
Missouri's mission is to power the quality of life for its 1.2
million electric and 132,000 natural gas customers in central and
eastern Missouri. The company's
service area covers 64 counties and more than 500 communities,
including the greater St. Louis
area. For more information, visit Ameren.com/Missouri or follow us on Twitter at
@AmerenMissouri or Facebook.com/AmerenMissouri.
About Ameren Corporation
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 transmission and
distribution service and natural gas distribution service. Ameren
Missouri provides electric generation, transmission and
distribution services, as well as natural gas distribution service.
Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois operates a rate- regulated electric
transmission business in the Midcontinent Independent System
Operator, Inc. 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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