Alabama Power Co. executive Ryan to speak at Jeff State spring graduation
Alabama Power Co. executive Clay Ryan is scheduled to give the keynote deal with for Jefferson State Community College’s sixtieth graduation ceremony on May 8 at the Alabama Theater.
Ryan, Alabama Power’s senior vp of exterior affairs, is accountable for governmental affairs, company affairs, charitable giving and Alabama Power’s six geographical enterprise divisions.
Prior to becoming a member of Alabama Power, he served because the senior vice chancellor of exterior affairs for the University of Alabama System, the place he was accountable for federal, state and native governmental affairs actions for the University of Alabama, University of Alabama in Huntsville, University of Alabama at Birmingham and UAB Health System. Additionally, he coordinated financial and workforce improvement actions throughout the UA System and was intimately concerned in disaster communications.
Prior to his UA system function, Ryan chaired the governmental and regulatory affairs apply group at Maynard Nexsen, an Alabama-based regulation agency with 24 places of work throughout the United States. Ryan represented shoppers within the vitality, utility, well being care, biotech, monetary providers, telecommunications, info expertise, increased training and land administration sectors, amongst others. He additionally offered recommendation on ethics and compliance to quite a few shoppers, managed statewide campaigns and suggested elected and different public officers on authorized and public curiosity issues.
He earned a bachelor’s diploma with honors from Birmingham-Southern College and acquired his regulation diploma with honors from the University of Alabama School of Law, the place he was editor of the Alabama Law Review.
Ryan is a graduate of Leadership Birmingham, Leadership Alabama and the Energy Executive Program at the University of Idaho. He is a member of the board of administrators of Southern Research, Opportunity Alabama, the Business Council of Alabama and Junior Achievement. He has served as a board member of the Glenwood Autism & Behavioral Health Center and chair of the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama’s Roundtable.
Ryan and his spouse, Sisi, stay in Vestavia Hills and have three kids.
Jeff State’s graduation ceremony is scheduled for 1:30 pm on Friday, May 8. It will embody graduates from the entire faculty’s campuses, together with the Shelby-Hoover campus on Valleydale Road.
