Sandra P. Meyer President — Duke Energy Ohio and Duke Energy Kentucky
Sandra Meyer is president of Duke Energy Ohio and Duke Energy Kentucky. She leads Duke Energy’s Ohio and Kentucky operations, serving approximately 680,000 customers in southwest Ohio and approximately 130,000 customers in six northern Kentucky counties.
Most recently, Meyer served as group vice president of customer service, sales and marketing for Duke Power. She was responsible for the company’s retail and wholesale marketing and sales, economic development, and customer service operations.
Meyer joined Texas Eastern Corporation in 1976 as a junior accountant. After a series of promotions with Texas Eastern and its successor, PanEnergy, she was elected vice president and controller in 1994 and named to the additional position of treasurer in 1996. Following Duke Energy’s merger with PanEnergy, Meyer served in financial leadership positions until she was named senior vice president of retail services in May 2001. Meyer was named group vice president of customer service, sales and marketing for Duke Power in 2003. She was named to her current position in 2006.
A native of Hobbs, N.M., Meyer earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Louisiana State University. She completed Harvard University’s Advanced Management Program. Meyer is a certified public accountant in North Carolina and Texas.
Meyer is currently active in the community and serves on the boards of the Cincinnati USA Regional Partnership, the Cincinnati Business Committee, Cincinnati City Center Development Corp., Regional Stewardship Council, Bethesda Inc., Ohio Business Roundtable and the United Way of Greater Cincinnati. Prior to relocating to Cincinnati, she was active in Financial Executives International, president and board member of the ESCAPE Family Resource Center in Houston and board member of Advanced Energy Inc., in Raleigh, N.C.
Meyer was born in 1954. She and her husband, Jerry, have two sons.
Duke Energy, one of the largest power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers electricity to approximately 3.9 million customers in the Carolinas and the Midwest. The company also distributes natural gas in Ohio and Kentucky, generates electricity in Latin America, and is a joint-venture partner in a U.S. real estate company. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.April 18, 2008
