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Calvin Butler is a business executive who in December 2019 became the CEO of Exelon Utilities, the largest utility company in the United States by customer count. He oversees six electric and gas companies - Atlantic City Electric, BGE in Baltimore, ComEd in Illinois, Delmarva Power in Delaware and Maryland, PECO in Philadelphia and Pepco in Washington D.C. Prior to becoming CEO of Exelon Utilities, he was the CEO of BGE, formerly Baltimore Gas & Electric.

He was previously a director for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and served as chairman of the trustees of Bradley University, his alma mater.

Early Life
Butler was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B.S. in public relations and political science from Bradley University in 1991. While at Bradley, he was elected student body president, following a successful campaign to prevent a white supremacist group from establishing a chapter at the school.

He earned a Juris Doctor in 1994 from Washington University in St. Louis.

Career
After graduating from law school Butler went to work for Central Illinois Light Company in its government affairs, legal and strategy departments. As a lobbyist for the company, he worked on legislation about deregulating the electric industry.

He was hired by print, digital and supply chain solutions company RR Donnelley in 1999 to launch its state and local affairs programs. He held multiple management roles at the company and eventually became senior vice president of external affairs. He led the company’s supplier diversity and government sales groups. He also became president of the company’s nonprofit foundation.

In 2008, he joined Exelon, first as vice president of external affairs and large customer services. He went on to serve a variety of corporate roles, including in corporate affairs, regulatory and external affairs. He helped the company in its merger with Constellation Energy Group, based in Boston.

He became the CEO of BGE, the Baltimore utility owned by Exelon, in 2014. While leading BGE, he had the company install smart meters and conservation voltage reduction technology, among the first utilities to do so. He also directed the company to direct more spending to women-, minority-, and veteran-owned businesses. When he started, about 14% of spending went to these types of businesses; in 2019, that increased to 40%.

Following the Freddie Grey protests and civil disorder in Baltimore in 2015, Butler adopted a stategy of large-scale programmatic philanthropy to help the community. “We recognized people who feel disenfranchised lack a couple of things: mentors, social capital, and opportunities,” he told Baltimore Magazine. Rather than creating new programs, he had BGE work with existing non-profits and community groups on new initiatives. The first initiative became Touchpoint, a career-development program providing “cradle to career” services. During his time leading BGE, the company donated more than $30 million to local non-profits. Butler has focused on programs that help young people. He told Baltimore Magazine that as one of a small number of African-Americans in top positions at large companies, he wanted to serve as a role model for young people of color. In 2016, Butler went on to co-found, with Johns Hopkins University president Ronald Daniels, BLocal, a coalition of large Baltimore companies that help small business and workers, specifically by spending more money with local women-, minority-, and veteran-owned businesses. The coalition went from spending more than $73.8 million in 2016 to more than $280 million in 2019.

In December 2019, Butler was named CEO of Exelon Utilities and senior executive vice president of Exelon Corp. He oversees six electric and gas companies - Atlantic City Electric, BGE in Baltimore, ComEd in Illinois, Delmarva Power in Delaware and Maryland, PECO in Philadelphia and Pepco in Washington D.C.

Butler has served on the board of directors of RLI Corp and was a director for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Civic activities
Butler has served as the vice chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee and a board member for the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation. He has also served as a director for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and a member of the Maryland Zoo's board. He has been on the boards of Baltimore Community Foundation, and the University of Maryland Medical Center. In 2018, Butler co-chaired the transition committee of the newly elected Baltimore County Executive John A. Olszewski Jr.

Personal Life
He is married to Sharon Butler and has two children, Blake and Raini.