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President and Chief Operating Officer
As president and chief operating officer, Donnelly is responsible for leading ComEd’s overall performance in the areas of service reliability, operations, engineering, safety, customer satisfaction, financial management, smart grid development, and the implementation of microgrid and other advanced technologies.
ComEd, a unit of Chicago-based Exelon, is the largest electric distribution company in Illinois. The company employs over 6,000 people and delivers electricity to over 4 million residential and business customers across northern Illinois – 70 percent of the state’s population – including the city of Chicago.
Exelon is one of the nation’s largest energy providers. The company has one of the industry’s largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity, with a nationwide reach and strong positions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Exelon distributes electricity and natural gas to approximately 10 million customers in northern Illinois, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The company is headquartered in Chicago and trades on the NYSE under the ticker EXC.
Donnelly began his professional career at ComEd sister company PECO, Pennsylvania’s largest electric and natural gas utility, in 1983. He has 35 years of experience in the energy industry.
He was promoted to president of ComEd in June 2018 and has served as COO since 2012. Donnelly also previously served as ComEd’s executive vice president of operations, leading all energy delivery and transmission system operations. He has held several other executive positions covering a broad range of functions for ComEd and PECO.
Donnelly serves on the board of directors for the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, House Theatre of Chicago, and Big Shoulders Fund. He also serves as vice chair of the board of trustees and chair of the quality committee at La Rabida Children’s Hospital in Chicago.
Donnelly earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and MBA from Temple University.
Senior Vice President, Governmental and External Affairs and Chief Governmental and Community Relations Officer
Fidel Marquez leads and oversees ComEd’s governmental and external affairs in Illinois, which includes managing the company’s relationships with the City of Chicago, over 400 municipalities, large commercial and industrial customers, as well as community and civic organizations across the state. On top of these duties, Marquez steers ComEd’s economic development strategy, which supports and encourages a prosperous economy in Illinois.
ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation. ComEd delivers electricity to approximately 3.8 million residential and business customers across northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population.
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) is the nation’s leading competitive energy provider, with 2013 revenues of approximately $24.9 billion. Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon does business in 48 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. Exelon is one of the largest competitive U.S. power generators, with more than 35,000 megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the nation’s cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets. The company’s Constellation business unit provides energy products and services to more than 2.5 million residential, public sector and business customers, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100. Exelon’s utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to more than 7.8 million customers in central Maryland (BGE), northern Illinois (ComEd) and southeastern Pennsylvania (PECO).
By the time Marquez assumed his role as senior vice president of Legislative and External Affairs, he had amassed decades of experience in internal and external facets of the energy business. With a strong foundation in Transmission Operations and broad industry knowledge, Marquez moved to senior roles in External Affairs and Customer Operations, where he focused on enhancing relationships with key stakeholders.
Marquez served as senior vice president for Customer Operations and was responsible for all direct and indirect contact with customers on a daily basis, including management of the Customer Care Center and all interactions with customers in the field. Prior to that, Marquez held the role of vice president of External Affairs and Large Customer Solutions, a dual role that required a devotion to providing exceptional customer service as well as building strong governmental and community partnerships.
Before moving on to Customer Operations and External Affairs, Marquez served as vice president of Transmission and Substation Operations at ComEd, after having spent 17 years as a director of Transmission Operations. Marquez also spent two years serving as senior vice president of Electric Transmission & Distribution for CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas. There, he managed the planning, design, construction and maintenance of major transmission and distribution systems.
A licensed professional engineer, Marquez received his master’s in business administration from Northwestern University. He also received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Marquez is a member of the Affiliate Board of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois; the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; the Illinois Bicentennial Committee; the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance; the National Museum of Mexican Art; the National Latino Educational Institute; Easter Seals of Metropolitan Chicago and the Adler Planetarium. Marquez also serves on the Transformation Advisory Board (TAC). TAC is to advise the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority (PREPA) governing board and management on the development of a long-term vision and transformation execution plan for PREPA.
Senior Vice President, Customer Operations
As senior vice president of Customer Operations, Jensen is responsible for overseeing all customer support functions, including Customer Financial Operations, Customer Care Center, Customer Field Operations, Customer Support and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) is the nation’s leading competitive energy provider, with approximately $33 billion in annual revenues. Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon is the largest competitive U.S. power generator, with more than 35,000 megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the nation’s cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets. The company’s Constellation business unit provides energy products and services to retail and wholesale customers across 45 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. Exelon’s utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to approximately 6.6 million customers in central Maryland (BGE), northern Illinois (ComEd) and southeastern Pennsylvania (PECO).
Prior to his current role, Jensen served as vice president of Marketing and Environmental Programs and oversaw the company’s $250 million portfolio of customer energy solutions programs, including energy efficiency, demand response, low-income energy assistance, and marketing programs. He also was responsible for design and management of an innovative set of customer solutions as part of ComEd’s AMI rollout.
Jensen joined ComEd in 2008 after eight years at ICF Consulting, where he was senior vice president. Jensen worked for the U.S. Department of Energy from 1994 to 1999, directing the Chicago office from 1996 to 1999. During his tenure, Jensen was responsible for the overall management of nearly $100 million in grants and contracts to organizations involved in technology development and deployment.
Jensen also spent 11 years at the Illinois Department of Energy as a manager of strategic planning. He oversaw Illinois’ statewide electric and natural gas integrated resource planning program. In total, he has more than 20 years of experience with utility resources planning, energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.
Jensen was the recipient of the Chairman’s Award from the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance in 2004.
Jensen was a founding board member of the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, which was established in 1999. He also is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and serves on the boards of the Consortium for Energy Efficiency and the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind.
Jensen holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Hamline University and a master's degree in public affairs from the University of Minnesota.
Senior Vice President, Regulatory and Energy Policy and General Counsel
Verónica Gómez, senior vice president of Regulatory and Energy Policy and General Counsel, serves as the primary legal advisor to ComEd’s senior management and oversees the company’s regulatory policy and strategy and rates functions.
Gómez previously served as the vice president and deputy general counsel for litigation at Exelon, ComEd’s parent company. In that role, Gómez was responsible for litigation cases on behalf of all Exelon companies, including ComEd. This litigation included third-party disputes and litigation in support of multi-billion dollar transactions. Prior to joining Exelon, Gómez was a litigation partner at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg and before that at Schopf & Weiss (now Honigman Miller), where she served on the Executive Committee.
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) & Treasurer
Joseph Trpik, senior vice president, CFO and treasurer, is responsible for all finance activities, including financial reporting and analysis, budgeting, business planning, financings and risk management.
A certified public accountant in Illinois and Florida, Trpik joined Exelon Corporation, in 2001 and for three years served in director level positions in corporate accounting and corporate financial planning and analysis. He was responsible for enhancing the accounting, internal reporting and external reporting and controls processes for Exelon.
Prior to his current position, Trpik served as vice president and assistant corporate controller. He played a key role in a number of significant potential business transactions and initiatives, the implementation of new accounting standards and the accounting and funding of Exelon’s pension plans. Prior to joining Exelon, Trpik was a senior manager with the public accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in Philadelphia.
Trpik is active in various community activities, including his position as a board member of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and mentor at DePaul University.
He is a graduate of Florida State University and has bachelor’s degrees in accounting and finance.
Senior Vice President, Technical Services
M. Michelle Blaise, senior vice president of Technical Services, is responsible for Engineering, Project Management and Smart Grid & Technology for ComEd.
ComEd is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation. ComEd delivers electricity to approximately 3.8 million residential and business customers across northern Illinois, including the City of Chicago, or 70 percent of the state’s population.
Prior to her role as senior vice president of Technical Services, Blaise served as vice president of Engineering and Project Management and oversaw maintenance, reliability, and capacity planning. She was also responsible for planning and execution of transmission and substation projects as well as execution of Energy Infrastructure Modernization (EIMA) program.
Blaise has held a variety of positions with increasing responsibilities in customer operations, strategic planning, distribution operations and engineering including manager of Construction and Maintenance, Manager of Strategic Planning, and Manager of Business Planning.
Blaise serves as a member of the board of directors for the Women’s Business Development Center and on the board of trustees of the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
Blaise holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a Masters in Business Administration from DePaul University.
Senior Vice President, Distribution Operations
Tim McGuire, senior vice president of Distribution Operations, oversees ComEd’s 11,000 square mile electric distribution system including field engineering, field and dispatch operations, construction as well as new business operations. McGuire also serves as the primary field operations advisor to ComEd’s senior management and oversees the company’s safety and human performance, reliability and field operations.
Tim joined ComEd in 1980 as a Field Engineer in the Northbrook Office. Since then, he has held numerous leadership and technical positions in Transmission and Substation, Distribution Operation, Regional Planning, Engineering, Public Affairs, New Business and Customer Service.
