WM Capstone: Patti Poppe
11/15/2017 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM ET
Category
Inforum Event
Admission
- $85.00 - Non-Member/Guest Ticket
- $800.00 - Table Sponsor
Location
Thousand Oaks Golf Club
4100 Thousand Oaks Drive NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
United States of America
4100 Thousand Oaks Drive NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
United States of America
Description
SOLD OUT.
For more than a decade, Inforum and the West Michigan community have worked to forge a future where talent meets opportunity at every level of leadership. Join us for this special annual capstone dinner featuring Patti Poppe, president and CEO of CMS Energy Corp. and Consumers Energy Co., to hear the story of her journey to become one of the few women leading a Fortune 500 company.
Speaker: Patti Poppe
Patti Poppe is President and CEO of Jackson-based CMS Energy and its principal subsidiary, Consumers Energy, Michigan's largest utility and the nation's fourth largest combination utility. She was elected to this position in July 2016.Patti held a variety of automotive management positions and served as power plant director at Detroit, Michigan based DTE Energy before returning to her hometown of Jackson to join Consumers Energy in 2011.Consumers Energy provides electricity and natural gas to 6.7 million of Michigan's 10 million Lower Peninsula residents. Patti earned a master's degree in management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and also has bachelor's and master's degrees in industrial engineering from Purdue University. As President and CEO, Patti has focused on connecting the company more closely with its customers and adapting lean operating system principles throughout the utility.
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Sponsorship opportunities are available: Contact Becky Puckett-Wood at bpuckett-wood@inforummichigan.org