Kim Greene became group president of Strategy & External Relations for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in January 2010. Based at TVA’s corporate headquarters in Knoxville, she is responsible for Customer Relations, Environment & Technology, Strategy, Finance & Business Planning, Commercial Operations & Pricing, Government Relations, and Communications. Greene was TVA’s chief financial officer and executive vice president of financial services since 2007 and became TVA’s chief risk officer in 2008. She came to TVA from Southern Company, where she was senior vice president of finance and treasurer. Greene joined Southern Company Services in 1991 as a mechanical engineer and progressed through various areas of engineering and finance. A native of Knoxville, Greene earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering science and mechanics from the University of Tennessee (UT). She also earned a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a master’s in business administration from Samford University in Birmingham. She has served on the board of directors for Energy Insurance Mutual since 2004 and serves as chair of the Audit Committee. Greene also serves as an advisor to the UT College of Engineering and Department of Finance as well as FIRST (For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) — a robotics program whose mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders. She and her husband, Ted, have two daughters.