The longtime chairman and CEO of the Chicago-based energy firm Exelon, John W. Rowe, died of natural causes on Sept. 24 in Naples, Florida, said his son, Bill. He was 77.
As the longtime chairman and CEO of the Chicago-based energy firm Exelon, John W. Rowe was a highly visible figure in Chicago’s often-overlapping business and civic communities in the early 2000s, steering Exelon through several mergers and chairing the boards of several high-profile institutions, including the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, the Chicago History Museum, the Field Museum and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
“I got assigned to work on ComEd’s nuclear plants and did nothing but that for five years,” Rowe told the Tribune in 2004. In 1984, Rowe was named the CEO of the Central Maine Power Co., a Maine utility, and in 1989, Rowe was recruited to be the CEO of a well-regarded, Massachusetts-based utility, New England Electric System, after its CEO was killed by lightning. Then, in 1998, Rowe returned to Chicago when he took the job of CEO at Unicom Corp., the parent company of electric utility Commonwealth Edison.
“We base our company on two of the great melting pot areas of the U.S.,” he told the Tribune in 2004. “Nobody can have a world-class utility with that footprint unless they pay attention to diversity every day.”, and then was unsuccessful in his attempt to merge Exelon with a large New Jersey utility.of Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group. Rowe retired as CEO in 2012, the same year that the Constellation deal was completed.
Rowe defused the matter by lending the more than 2,000-year-old coffin to the Field Museum, which displayed it in its permanent exhibits on daily life in Egypt in the time of the pharaohs.
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