President's Profile
President and Chief Executive Officer Roy Thilly has been with WPPI Energy since Jan. 1, 1992.

Before joining WPPI Energy, Thilly was a partner in the Madison law firm of Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field, where he served as outside counsel to WPPI Energy from its inception. At Boardman, he also represented municipal utilities and other clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and in power supply and transmission negotiations.

A native of New York, Thilly completed his undergraduate degree in English at Columbia University in 1968. For the following three years, Thilly served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, where he met his wife, Mary, a Minnesota native.

Thilly graduated magna cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1974. He returned to New York and spent a year as an associate at a Wall Street law firm. In late 1975, he joined Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field.

Thilly is active on national, as well as state electric issues. He is a past president of the American Public Power Association and past member of the Board of Trustees of the National Electric Reliability Council (NERC). He served as Chair of the industry Stakeholder Committee, NERC's new independent Board in 2004. He is a past Chair of Mid-Continent Area Power Pool (MAPP) and a past member of the Board of Directors of the Midwest Reliability Organization. He also is chair of the Transmission Access Policy Study Group (TAPS), a national organization of transmission-dependent utilities that promote equal access and vigorous competition in electricity at wholesale.

On the state level, he served as co-chair of the Governor's Task Force on Global Warming in 2007-2008 and is the first President of the Wisconsin Climate Change Action Initiative. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Customers First! Coalition, a group of diverse industry stakeholders that advocate a careful approach to deregulation designed to provide benefits to all classes of customers. In 2004, he served on the Governor's Task Force on Energy Efficiency and Renewables.

In 2006, Thilly joined the Board of the Energy Center of Wisconsin, a private, non-profit organization dedicated to developing solutions to energy challenges that promote economic and environmental sustainability through innovative research and education.

Thilly was instrumental in consolidation of the transmission systems in eastern Wisconsin into a single company, the American Transmission Company. He serves on the Board of Directors of this company.

Thilly is a member of the Wisconsin Bar Association.