Stanley W. (Stan) Connally Jr. is executive vice president of operations at Southern Company – one of the largest producers of energy in the United States - and chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Southern Company Services (SCS). Connally oversees Southern Company’s systemwide operations, based in Birmingham, Alabama. This includes generation, transmission, engineering and construction services, commercial operations, supply chain management, system planning and environmental affairs, as well as Southern Wholesale Energy and the company's Southern Linc and Southern Telecom telecommunications businesses. As CEO of SCS, Connally is responsible for the primary shared services activities, administrative functions, and budget management for SCS. He is responsible for ensuring the alignment of information technology and operations functions to create strategies that deliver increased value to customers. He is dedicated to helping ensure employees under his leadership are able to work safely, provide value and continuously improve through a shared-services model to serve all Southern Company subsidiaries and their customers. Prior to his current role, Connally served as the chairman, president, and CEO of Southern Company’s subsidiary Gulf Power from 2012 through 2018. Earlier in his career, he served as senior vice president and senior production officer for Georgia Power, where he was responsible for fossil and hydroelectric generation. Connally’s earlier experience across the company ranges from customer operations, sales, and marketing to power plant leadership, serving across all of Southern Company’s regulated electric subsidiaries in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi.Connally earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has completed the Goizueta Executive Education Program at Emory University and the Southern Company Senior Leadership Development Program. A native of Newnan, Georgia, Connally and his wife, Amy, have two sons – Cade and Court.