Duke Energy Corporation

Duke Energy, a Fortune 150 company, is one of America’s largest energy holding company serving 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. Duke energy is executing a clean energy transition for both its natural gas and electricity generation businesses.

Brian Savoy serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Duke Energy. He oversees the company’s financial function, including the controller’s office, treasury, tax, risk management and insurance. These duties include accounting, cash management and overseeing risk control policies. He also has responsibility for corporate development and enterprise strategy, with a focus on transforming the company’s generation and transmission assets to achieve its net-zero carbon emissions goals. Before assuming his current position in September 2022, Savoy served as Duke Energy’s executive vice president and chief strategy and commercial officer. In this role, he was responsible for enterprise strategy, commercial renewables, the natural gas business unit, business ventures, and sales for large customer accounts. Previously, Savoy served as the company’s chief transformation and administrative officer, where he led the company’s business transformation through digital innovation, new ways of working and process redesign. He had responsibility for the enterprise business services and technology team, including the information and technology, administrative services, supply chain and human resources organizations. Prior to that, Savoy served as Duke Energy’s chief accounting officer. He joined the company in 2001 as a manager in Duke Energy North America, and he was named director of trading and risk later in that year. Savoy led derivative accounting and trading control functions for energy trading and was instrumental in the successful wind-down of DENA in 2005. Following Duke Energy’s merger with Cinergy in 2006, he was appointed vice president and controller of the commercial power segments. In 2009, Savoy was named director of forecasting, where he played a significant role in addressing challenging business and strategic issues, including leading financial due diligence for the Duke Energy/Progress Energy merger completed in 2012.