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OKLAHOMA www.ceotodaymagazine.com 102 CEO Today USAAwards 2018 SEAN TRAUSCHKE Chairman, President & CEO of OGE Energy Corp. ABOUT SEAN TRAUSCHKE Sean Trauschke serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of OGE Energy Corp. and OG&E. Trauschke earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of South Carolina and has completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. Trauschke serves on the boards of the State Chamber of Oklahoma, Downtown OKC, United Way of Central Oklahoma, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, Children’s Hospital Foundation, Oklahoma Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the Myriad Gardens Foundation. www.ogeenergy.com FIRM PROFILE OGE Energy Corp. is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol OGE. It is the parent company of Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E), a regulated utility, and holds a 25.6 percent limited partner interest and a 50 percent general partner interest in Enable Midstream Partners, LP, also headquartered in Oklahoma City. Formed in 1902, OG&E is Oklahoma’s oldest and largest investor-owned electric utility. We serve more than 843,000 customers in 276 towns and cities in a 30,000 square mile area of Oklahoma and western Arkansas. The largest city on our system, Oklahoma City, has a metro area population of approximately 1.5 million people. But we also serve towns like Enid, Ardmore, Muskogee, Norman, Durant, Ft. Smith Ark., as well as many other smaller communities throughout our service territory. We have approximately 2,500 employees who live and work in the very communities we serve. Our power plants, located throughout Oklahoma, generate electricity using natural gas, coal, wind and solar power. We are extremely proud of the fact that we, as a company, have some of the lowest rates in the entire nation and, because of our strong system reliability and high customer satisfaction, we’re consistently ranked in surveys as one of the highest performing utilities in the nation. Our Mission Safely provide reliable electricity and related services vital to our communities at a reasonable cost. Who We Serve We not only serve more than 830,000 electric customers ranging from single residents to large industrial facilities, we also power communities in other ways. We’re the largest single payer of ad valorem taxes in Oklahoma, approximately $80 million annually, most of which goes directly to fund public education. What’s more, our employees generously give their time and money to support the communities where they live and work. Through their generosity, OG&E is consistently among the largest contributors to the United Way—giving nearly $1.2 million to hundreds of partner agencies that improve the health, safety, education and economic well-being for people in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Our employees are also a force in their communities through volunteerism. We give each employee up to 16 hours of paid volunteer time each year to support personal causes such as education, the arts, social service organizations and many more. Last year, employees logged approximately 20,000 hours of volunteer time during their work days – but many also volunteer after hours and on the weekend as well.