As senior vice president, chief accounting officer, tax and controller for Duke Energy, Dwight Jacobs oversees the accounting, tax, financial reporting and internal controls for the corporation.

Before assuming his current position in June 2018, Jacobs served as senior vice president of financial planning and analysis for Duke Energy. In this role, he was responsible for the business and financial planning functions of the enterprise, including oversight of the company’s financial forecast. He also managed the design of policies, processes and systems that support the finance function.

Jacobs joined the company in 2002 and served in several leadership roles. He has served as Duke Energy’s chief risk officer and led a revamping of the company’s enterprise risk management practices and policies. Jacobs has served as vice president of rates and regulatory strategy for Duke Energy, where he led the regulatory activity, including rate cases, in the six states and 11 jurisdictions served by the company. He has also served as utility controller and held leadership roles in corporate accounting and reporting.

Before joining the company, Jacobs was an audit and business advisory partner with Arthur Andersen in Washington, D.C., where he started his career in 1988.

The Orangeburg, S.C., native earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed the Advanced Risk Management Program at Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business. He is also a certified public accountant.

Jacobs serves as a business school adjunct professor at Queens University. He is a board member and former president of Communities in Schools. He serves on the board of visitors for UNC's Children's Hospital, and he is a founding member of the university's Alumni Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity. He has been a youth basketball coach, a teacher at Weddington United Methodist Church and a youth mentor.

He is married to the former Moira Farrell of Charlotte, N.C., and they have a daughter and a son.

Aug. 2, 2019

Duke Energy

Duke Energy, one of the largest energy holding companies in the United States, supplies and delivers electric services to approximately 7.7 million customers in the Southeast and Midwest. The company also distributes natural gas services to approximately 1.6 million customers in the Carolinas, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Its commercial business operates a growing renewable energy portfolio across the United States. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 150 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.