Mr. Charles R. Matthews (’78) was named president and chief executive officer of People Gas and North Shore Gas in June 2015. In this role, Mr. Matthews oversees the daily operations, strategy, growth and administrative activities of WEC Energy Group’s two Illinois utilities that collectively provide natural gas service to nearly 1 million customers in the city of Chicago and 54 communities within the northern suburbs.
Mr. Matthews possesses 30 plus years of energy industry experience in operations, finance, marketing, risk management, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to taking the helm at Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas, Mr. Matthews spent nine years in executive and leadership positions at We Energies and served as senior vice president wholesale energy and fuels and customer solutions.
