Brian Tierney is executive vice president and chief financial officer for American Electric Power, one of the largest electrical utilities in the United States, delivering electricity to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. He reports to Mike Morris, chairman, president and chief executive officer.

Previously, he was executive vice president - AEP Utilities East, responsible for the distribution, customer service, and financial performance of AEP’s utility operating companies in the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Prior to assuming that position in January 2008, Brian was the senior vice president of Commercial Operations, where he was responsible for AEP’s energy trading and marketing activities, as well as market operations and dispatch of the company’s 38,000 MW generation fleet.

Brian joined AEP in 1998 and has held a number of management positions responsible for pricing energy transactions, market operations, and trading and marketing. From 2001-2002, Brian served on the Board of Directors of ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas).

Prior to joining AEP, Brian worked for a subsidiary of Enron Corp., where he was an electricity trader, traded coal and priced energy transactions. Before entering the energy industry, Brian served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of the Philippines and worked in the consumer products industry.

Brian has a bachelor of arts degree in history from Boston College and an MBA from the University of Chicago with concentrations in finance and accounting.

He serves on the Boards of Trustees of the Mount Carmel College of Nursing, Columbus School for Girls, LifeCare Alliance, the Columbus Chamber and the Upper Arlington Rotary. He and his wife, Beth, have four daughters.