BOONE—Tom Kilgore, president and chief executive officer of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), will be the speaker at the Harlan E. Boyles Distinguished CEO Lecture at Appalachian State University. The lecture series is named for the late Harlan E. Boyles, who served for 24 years as N.C. state treasurer.

The event, sponsored by the Walker College of Business, will be held Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 2 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall. A reception will follow at 3:15 p.m. at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center. The lecture and reception are open to the public. For more information, call 828-262-2057.

Kilgore is responsible for managing all aspects of TVA, including power production, transmission, power trading, resource management programs and economic development, as well as TVA’s corporate functions. He heads TVA’s executive committee and chairs its business council.

Founded by Congress in 1933, TVA is a federal corporation and the nation’s largest public power company. TVA’s power-service area covers 80,000 square miles in the southeastern United States, including almost all of Tennessee and parts of Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.

Kilgore came to TVA from Progress Ventures, where he was president and chief executive officer. Progress Ventures is a subsidiary of Progress Energy. The company has a diverse portfolio of energy-related businesses in fuel extraction, transportation, energy marketing, energy trading and other areas.

He previously served as president and chief executive officer of Oglethorpe Power Corporation in Georgia. He joined Oglethorpe in 1984 and held numerous management positions, becoming president and chief executive officer in 1991 and serving in that capacity until 1998. Prior to joining Oglethorpe, he worked for Arkansas Power and Light Company and for the U.S. Department of Defense at Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas.

Kilgore earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. He served in the U.S. Army from 1970-72. In 2002, he was inducted into the State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame.

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