Biographical profile

John Trawick

Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations & Pricing

John Trawick was named Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations & Pricing in December 2009. Trawick is responsible for energy trading, power origination, energy efficiency and demand response, pricing, and contracts. His group also provides rate and regulatory policy support to the TVA Board.

Trawick had been the Vice President of Strategy, Pricing & Contracts since January 2008.

Prior to joining TVA, Trawick had been director of Strategic & Corporate Affairs with Southern Power Company in Birmingham. At Southern Power, Trawick was responsible for strategic planning, governmental affairs, compliance, and generation asset acquisition.

Trawick previously was director of Market Affairs for Mirant Americas, Inc., where he managed North America regional teams participating in wholesale energy restructuring. He was responsible for all federal and state regulatory filings on market-structure design and evaluated the commercial impact of federal and state regulatory rulemakings. As a senior consultant with J. Kennedy & Associates in Atlanta, Trawick did financial and economic analyses in utility, cost-of-service, rate design, and production cost modeling.

Trawick has a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Auburn University and a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Tennessee. Trawick serves on the Leadership Council of the College of Science & Mathematics at Auburn.

John and his wife, Tammi, have two sons and reside in Knoxville.