ATLANTA – Southern Company has named Kim Greene senior vice president of finance and Mark Lantrip vice president of financial planning and enterprise risk management.

In addition to his current responsibilities as financial planning and analysis director, Lantrip will take on additional responsibilities associated with enterprise risk management, thereby consolidating the company’s financial planning and risk management activities. He will continue to report to Greene, who most recently served as vice president of finance and whose new title reflects these additional responsibilities.

“Kim and Mark each bring a high level of experience and skill to their new positions and will be great assets as we work to achieve our financial goals,” said Chief Financial Officer Tom Fanning. “In addition, we believe the consolidation of financial planning and risk management activities strengthens our ability to successfully execute our strategy.”

Greene joined Southern Company in 1991 as a mechanical engineer and has progressed through various positions in power and system engineering, combustion turbine engineering, nuclear support, asset management and finance.

Since joining Southern Company in 1981 as an analyst in the corporate planning department of Gulf Power, Lantrip has worked in a wide variety of positions of increasing responsibility in financial planning and system planning departments across Southern Company and its subsidiaries, including Georgia Power, Southern Company Services-Birmingham and Southern Company Services-Atlanta.

With more than 4 million customers and nearly 39,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is the premier super-regional energy company in the Southeast and a leading U.S. producer of electricity. Southern Company owns electric utilities in four states, a growing competitive generation company, an energy services business and a competitive retail natural gas business, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications. Southern Company brands are known for excellent customer service, high reliability and retail electric prices that are 15 percent below the national average. Southern Company has been named three consecutive years No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s “America’s Most Admired Companies” list in the Electric and Gas Utility industry. Southern Company has been ranked the nation’s top energy utility in the American Customer Satisfaction Index five years in a row. Southern Company has more than 500,000 shareholders, making its common stock one of the most widely held in the United States. Visit the Southern Company Web site at www.southerncompany.com.

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