{"id":393041,"date":"2020-12-03T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=393041"},"modified":"2020-12-03T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:18:31","slug":"garcia-thomas-elected-to-wec-energy-group-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/garcia-thomas-elected-to-wec-energy-group-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia-Thomas elected to WEC Energy Group board of directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-newslines\">\n<p class=\"xn-distributor\">PR Newswire<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>\n        <span class=\"xn-location\">MILWAUKEE<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 3, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Cristy Garcia-Thomas, chief external affairs officer for Advocate Aurora Health Inc., has been elected to the board of directors of WEC Energy Group (NYSE:WEC), effective Jan. 1.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re delighted that Cristy has agreed to serve as a director,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Gale Klappa<\/span>, executive chairman. &#8220;Her leadership in the highly regulated health care field, and her experience in customer care, external affairs, and diversity and inclusion will add another dimension of strength to an engaged and effective board of directors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garcia-Thomas joined Aurora Health Care \u2014 the largest employer in the <span class=\"xn-location\">Milwaukee<\/span> region \u2014 in 2011 and was previously president of its Foundation. She has more than 25 years of experience in leadership roles including president and CEO of the United Performing Arts Fund and publisher and vice president of the Specialty Media Division of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia-Thomas is a graduate of <span class=\"xn-org\">Kansas State University<\/span>. She also is a graduate of executive programs at <span class=\"xn-org\">Northwestern University<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-org\">Harvard Business School<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <i>WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC), based in <span class=\"xn-location\">Milwaukee<\/span>, is one of the nation&#8217;s premier energy companies, serving 4.5 million customers in <span class=\"xn-location\">Wisconsin<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Illinois<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Michigan<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Minnesota<\/span>.<\/i>\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        <i>The company&#8217;s principal utilities are We Energies, Wisconsin Public Service, Peoples Gas, North Shore Gas, Michigan Gas Utilities, Minnesota Energy Resources and Upper Michigan Energy Resources. Another major subsidiary, We Power, designs, builds and owns electric generating plants. In addition, WEC Infrastructure LLC owns a growing fleet of renewable generation facilities in the Midwest. <\/i>\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        <i>WEC Energy Group (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3001606-1&amp;h=656122742&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wecenergygroup.com%2F&amp;a=wecenergygroup.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">wecenergygroup.com<\/a>) is a Fortune 500 company and a component of the S&amp;P 500. The company has approximately 45,000 stockholders of record, 7,500 employees and <span class=\"xn-money\">$35 billion<\/span> of assets.<\/i>\n      <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"PURL\">\n        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cision\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" alt=\"Cision\" src=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/img\/favicon.png?sn=CG12182&amp;sd=2020-12-03\" \/> View original content:<a id=\"PRNURL\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/garcia-thomas-elected-to-wec-energy-group-board-of-directors-301186033.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/garcia-thomas-elected-to-wec-energy-group-board-of-directors-301186033.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  WEC Energy Group<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rt.prnewswire.com\/rt.gif?NewsItemId=CG12182&amp;Transmission_Id=202012031415PR_NEWS_USPR_____CG12182&amp;DateId=20201203\" style=\"border:0px;width:1px;height:1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PR Newswire MILWAUKEE, Dec. 3, 2020 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0Cristy Garcia-Thomas, chief external affairs officer for Advocate Aurora Health Inc., has been elected to the board of directors of WEC Energy Group (NYSE:WEC), effective Jan. 1.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;re delighted that Cristy has agreed to serve as a director,&#8221; said Gale Klappa, executive chairman. &#8220;Her leadership in the highly regulated health care field, and her experience in customer care, external affairs, and diversity and inclusion will add another dimension of strength to an engaged and effective board of directors.&#8221; Garcia-Thomas joined Aurora Health Care \u2014 the largest employer in the Milwaukee region \u2014 in 2011 and was previously president of its Foundation. 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