PPL Promotes Francis Sullivan To Succeed Gregory Dudkin As COO

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PPL Promotes Francis Sullivan To Succeed Gregory Dudkin As COO

(RTTNews) - PPL Corp. (PPL) announced Thursday it has promoted Francis Sullivan to executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective January 1, 2023. Sullivan succeeds Gregory Dudkin, who is on extended medical leave and not expected to return to PPL. Dudkin will remain executive vice president while on medical leave.

In his new position, Sullivan will report to PPL President and Chief Executive Officer Vincent Sorgi and oversee PPL's regulated utility operations, with the presidents of PPL's Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island utility companies reporting to him.

Sullivan brings more than four decades of energy industry experience to his new role. He joined PPL as vice president-Operations Performance in October 2021. Prior to PPL, he served as senior operations advisor for Kindle Energy LLC for more than two years and as an independent consultant to the power sector since 2018.

From 2008 to 2018, Sullivan served as NRG Energy's senior vice president of operations. Prior to that, he served for more than a decade in a variety of leadership roles with Public Service Enterprise Group.

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