Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> November 1, 2004
CHRISTOPHER L. DUTTON is President and Chief Executive Officer of Green
Mountain Power Corporation. Mr. Dutton, was named GMP's President and
Chief Executive Officer and elected to GMP's Board of Directors on
August 6, 1997. He had been Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and
Treasurer of GMP since 1995 and was the company's General Counsel and
Vice President for the previous 10 years. Mr. Dutton practiced law as a
partner in a Canton, Ohio, law firm before coming to Green Mountain
Power in 1984. He earned his law degree from Vanderbilt University and
his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University. He has practiced
law in Tennessee, Ohio and Vermont, and served as a Captain in the Judge
Advocate General Corps, United States Air Force. Mr. Dutton is a member
of the Board of Directors of the Vermont Electric Power Company. He is a
Director of the Chittenden County United Way; a Director of the Vermont
Business Roundtable; a Director of the Flynn Center for the Performing
Arts; and a Trustee of Fletcher Allen Health Care. He also served as
Chair of the Chittenden South Supervisory School District and was a
member of the Champlain Valley Union High School Board of Directors and
the Regional Technical Academy Committee. Profile
Mr. Dutton: We are a vertically integrated electric utility company
operating in the State of Vermont. We serve roughly a third of the
state, both in terms
