Calvin G. Butler, Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Exelon, the nation’s largest energy transmission and delivery company by customer count, with six local electric and natural gas companies: Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco, serving a total of 10 million customers. Butler was appointed CEO in 2022, after serving as the company’s Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
Butler’s 15-year tenure with Exelon includes roles as CEO of BGE and CEO of the company’s former Exelon Utilities arm.
Butler serves on the board of a number of industry and civic organizations, including Battelle, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), Argonne National Laboratory, the Economic Club of Chicago, the Greater Washington Partnership, the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, and the Annika Sorenstam Foundation. He also serves on the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. Butler is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Butler earned a Bachelor’s degree from Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and a Juris Doctor degree from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Mo. He received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Morgan State University in 2014.
