Kevin Walker is senior vice president and chief information officer for American Electric Power. Previously, he was president and chief operating officer for AEP Ohio, serving approximately 1.44 million customers in Ohio and the northern West Virginia panhandle, with authority for distribution operations and a wide range of customer and regulatory relationships. Before joining AEP in 2004, Kevin was vice president, Maintenance and Construction Services, for Consolidated Edison of New York, including the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester. Kevin was instrumental in directing recovery of energy service following the collapse of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Kevin spent approximately 13 years with Consolidated Edison in various leadership positions. He served as Waterside Plant Manager, Steam Operations Department Manager, and as New York City public affairs liaison was the primary interface with the New York City mayor's office during the administration of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Kevin also served for more than six years as a Captain in the United States Army. Kevin serves as board chair for the Ohio Business Development Coalition, and the Columbus/Franklin County Community Action Agency Task Force. He serves on the board of various organizations and is board advisor for Comprehensive Development Inc., a nonprofit organization that supports mentoring and development programs for the Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School. In 2005, Kevin Walker was recognized by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of corporate America's 75 top black business leaders. He was also featured in the 2006 edition of Who's Who in Black Columbus (Ohio). In 1999, he received the Harlem YMCA's Black Achiever in Industry Award. Less   View all posts

Ken Fulmer is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Sunoco and part of the IT leadership team at Sunoco. He has been with Sunoco for 25 years, in various positions within the Information Technology field. His current responsibilities as CTO include managing the Project Management Office (PMO), the IT planning and application architecture group. He is also directing the enabling layer of applications including SOA and EAI, Web Services, Portals, Document Management, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Ken started at Sun Oil (as it was then known) in the Commercial products group. He then managed the Sun Information Services (now Sungard) consulting group of over 200 consultants, leading projects in the government and financial services sector. He later managed a series of large internal projects for various business segments in Sunoco, including introducing the Cstore systems, implementing a pipeline financial tracking system, implementing the refinery maintenance and asset management system, HES systems, and replacing the financial and procurement systems. He also managed the IT development for treasury, tax, and business line performance and sales reporting groups. Prior to his current role, Ken managed Sunoco's backoffice and financial applications, as well as being the IT director for the Mid-America business line. He has also lead several business process re-engineering teams, and was part of the corporate quality program at Sunoco for IT. Less   View all posts