Corporate Officers
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dawn Farrell became President and CEO of TransAlta Corporation in January 2012. Prior to her appointment, she served as Chief Operations Officer from 2009 to 2011.
President, U.S. Operations
Paul Taylor leads TransAlta’s business operations in the United States.
Chief Legal and Business Development Officer
Ken Stickland is responsible for directing the corporation’s legal affairs, corporate secretarial matters, sustainable development and growth efforts in Canada and Australia.
Chief Financial Officer
Brett Gellner is responsible for all financial policy, planning and reporting, as well as M&A, tax, treasury and risk management planning and implementation.
Chief Human Resources Officer and Executive Vice-President, Communications
Dawn de Lima is responsible for leading the human resources, corporate communications and general services teams.
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
Rob Schaefer is responsible for Corporate Development at TransAlta, in addition to leading its marketing and trading operations and regulatory affairs.
Executive Vice President, Corporate Services
Cynthia Johnston is TransAlta’s Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and is responsible for IT and Supply Chain Management.
Executive Vice-President, Operations
Hugo Shaw is responsible for the safe and effective operations of TransAlta’s coal, gas, hydro and wind power generating assets in Canada. He also has accountability TransAlta’s construction and project design engineering team.
Chief Engineer
Bob Emmott is responsible for fleet major equipment lifecycle technical risk management and reliability engineering as well as ensuring TransAlta's quality assurance processes are best in class. Mr. Emmott is also responsible for maintaining our corporate safety and environmental standards across all operations.
Executive Vice-President, Business Development
William Bridge is responsible for TransAlta's greenfield development efforts in Canada and Australia, as well as the development of Project Pioneer.
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