The Southern Company Announces CFO Changes

Published: 2025-07-11 07:50:33 ET SO

Published on 07/11/2025 at 07:50

Southern Company announced that Daniel S. Tucker, currently executive vice president and chief financial officer, plans to retire. The company announced that David P. Poroch, currently senior vice president, comptroller and chief accounting officer of Southern Company, will succeed Tucker, effective July 31, 2025. Tucker will transition to a senior advisory role reporting to the CEO until his retirement Oct.

1, 2025. Tucker, who joined Southern Company in 1998, was named CFO in Sept. 2021.

During his tenure as CFO, he prioritized the company's objectives of delivering regular and predictable results, ensuring strong financial integrity across the enterprise, highlighting the quality of Southern Company's value proposition with investors, and positioning the company to capture tremendous growth opportunities in the coming years. During his career, Tucker held various positions of increasing responsibility, including Southern Company senior vice president and treasurer, and executive vice president and chief financial officer of both Southern Company Gas and Georgia Power. Poroch began his career with Southern Company in 2012 as vice president and chief audit executive of Southern Company Services.

This was the first of multiple leadership roles for Poroch across Southern Company, taking on greater responsibility and gaining valuable insights into the company's business portfolio. In 2014, he assumed the role of vice president and comptroller of Georgia Power. From there, Poroch served in executive roles at two of the company's major subsidiaries ?

Georgia Power and Southern Company Gas. He was named executive vice president, CFO and treasurer of Georgia Power in 2019, where he oversaw accounting and financial reporting, financial planning and analysis, budgeting and treasury functions. As part of his leadership development and to expand his company experience with its natural gas distribution utilities, he assumed the role of executive vice president and chief financial officer at Southern Company Gas in 2021, where he directed finance, accounting, business planning and risk management functions for the company before stepping into the Southern Company comptroller and chief accounting officer role in 2023.

Prior to joining Southern Company, he was a partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he gained nearly two decades of experience in the utilities sector.