Dive Summary:
- Entergy Nuclear executive John Herron has been elected to become Duke Energy's 16th board member.
- Herron will also be part of the search committee for former-CEO Jim Rogers' replacement, but no other members of this committee from pre-merger Duke have been disclosed as yet.
- The move will be complete after Herron retires from Entergy in March; he has been in the nuclear energy industry for 34 years.
From the article:
The search committee is made up of the four former Progress directors who remain on the Duke board and four who had been Duke directors before the merger. The commission instructed Duke to chose a new board member independent of either company to be the ninth vote on the committee. ...