FirstEnergy Names New Vice President, Risk and Internal Audit
July 12,2019
FirstEnergy Corp. has promoted Kevin Burgess to vice president, Risk and Internal Audit, effective July 21, 2019.
In this role, Burgess will oversee the combination of the company's risk management and internal auditing departments into one group. He currently is director, Internal Auditing & Chief Audit Officer for FirstEnergy.
Burgess started with FirstEnergy in 1999 as manager, Business Services, for two of the company's generating plants. In 2002, he became director of Planning and Analysis for FirstEnergy Solutions (FES) and in 2004, he advanced to assistant controller of FES, where he had financial responsibilities for FirstEnergy's fossil and nuclear generating plants, as well as Commodity Operations and Competitive Retail Sales.
He became assistant controller of FirstEnergy Utilities (FEU) in 2005, and assistant controller, Corporate, in 2010. In 2012, he was promoted to executive director, FirstEnergy Solutions, Finance, and in 2013, named to executive director, Internal Audit.