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Theodore F. Craver, Jr.
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Edison International
Theodore F. Craver, Jr., is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison, one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, and Edison Mission Group (EMG), a competitive power generation business and parent company to Edison Mission Energy and Edison Capital.
Craver was elected chairman and chief executive officer in August 2008, and president in April 2008.
Craver was chairman, president and chief executive officer of EMG from January 2005 to April 2008. Before that, he was executive vice president of parent company Edison International, and held the position of chief financial officer and treasurer from January 2000 through December 2004.
Before joining Edison in 1996, Craver served as executive vice president and corporate treasurer of First Interstate Bancorp from 1991 to 1996. In that role, he was responsible for corporate development, treasury, and sales and trading of investment and insurance products. While at First Interstate, Craver also served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of the wholesale banking subsidiary from 1986 to 1991. Before joining First Interstate, he spent four years with Bankers Trust Company of New York and seven years with Security Pacific National Bank in various capital markets sales and trading capacities.
Craver serves on the Board of Directors of Health Net, Inc. He is on the Board and Executive Committee of the Edison Electric Institute, serves as chairman of the Board of the Electric Drive Transportation Association, and serves on the Boards of Directors of the Electric Power Research Institute and the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. He also is on the Board of Trustees of the Autry National Center.
Craver earned an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from the University of Southern California.
Ronald L. Litzinger
President
Southern California Edison
Ronald L. Litzinger is president of Southern California Edison (SCE), which serves more than 14 million people in 15 counties of Central, Coastal and Southern California and is one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric utilities.
Previously, Litzinger was chairman, president and chief executive officer of Edison Mission Group (EMG), the competitive power generation business of SCE’s parent company, Edison International. EMG is the parent company of Edison Mission Energy (EME) and Edison Capital.
Litzinger joined Edison as an engineer at SCE in 1986 and since has served in a variety of capacities throughout Edison International’s companies. He moved to EME in 1995 and was named vice president there in 1998. From 1999 to 2002, he served as EME’s senior vice president of worldwide operations, and rose to senior vice president and chief technical officer in 2002. In 2004, he was named vice president of Strategic Planning for Edison International and the following year, was named senior vice president for SCE’s Transmission and Distribution Business Unit.
Highlights of Litzinger’s career include his instrumental role in getting EME’s Sunrise power plant in Bakersfield, California, online in less than a year, helping to ease the energy constraints of the California power crisis of 2000-2001. He also played an important role in helping EMG get back to financial strength from 2002 to 2004 and in architecting Edison International’s 2004 strategic plan.
Before joining Edison, Litzinger was an engineer for Texaco subsidiaries.
He is a member of the Visiting Committee at the University of Washington’s College of Engineering.
Litzinger earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in management from the University of Redlands.
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