Crane Christopher M
Education
- Advanced Management Program - Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program
- Bachelors - Hampshire Technical College
Overview
Christopher M Crane has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation (EXC) since 2012. He was previously serving as the company’s president and COO. Crane joined Exelon in 1998 and was named chief nuclear officer in 2004.
In that role, he oversaw one of the U.S. industry’s largest portfolios of electricity generating capacity, with a multi-regional reach and the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear power plants. He directed a broad range of businesses including major acquisitions, transmission strategy, cost management initiatives, oversight of major capital programs, generation asset optimization, and generation development.
Prior to joining Exelon, Crane served as Browns Ferry site vice president for Tennessee Valley Authority and worked in new plant start-up at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant in Texas and Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona.
Crane was named president of Exelon Generation in 2008, with added responsibility for Power Team, Exelon’s former wholesale power trading and competitive retail organization.
$14,685,715 : Total Compensation
$212,977: Other Compensation
Other Activites
Crane is an acknowledged leader in the electric utility and nuclear industries. He is Chairman of EEI and a former chairman of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the industry organization promoting the highest levels of safety and reliability in nuclear plant operations. He is a past chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nation’s nuclear industry trade association, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee and the Materials Initiative Group. He also is a member of the board of directors of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry, Get-In Chicago, and the board of directors of AEGIS Insurance Services.
