Southern Company Gas, LLC President and CEO Phil Saunders today announced the selection of three new members of his management team.

Gary R. Nixon, 43, has been named to head the company’s information systems organization. Nixon will be responsible for the ongoing design, implementation, maintenance and operation of the information technology systems that support key gas business functions. Those functions include customer service, marketing, gas procurement, financial control and general corporate systems. Nixon also will manage all contracts with information resources vendors.

Randy D. Weaver, 40, will oversee customer operations, assuming responsibility for all customer interfaces including billing and collection of revenue, customer care center operations, new customer acquisitions, payment processing and e-care. Weaver also will manage all customer operations vendor contracts.

Connie J. Erickson, 36, has been named comptroller, responsible for maintaining strong internal accounting controls. Erickson also will supervise the accounting and finance teams that provide accounting, budgeting, and management reports to the parent firm, Southern Company.

“We are putting together a team of people who have the relevant skills necessary to build a business that is focused on the customer,” Saunders said. “Gary, Randy and Connie bring knowledge, experience and enthusiasm to their new jobs and to this new Southern Company venture.”

Nixon has nearly 15 years of information technology project management experience which includes expertise in the natural gas business. In 1987, he joined SWEB, the former U.K. affiliate of Southern Company that supplied and distributed electricity and natural gas throughout southwestern England. Most recently he held the position of application portfolio manager for Southern Company’s human resources and payroll systems serving its core utilities in the southeastern United States.

Weaver began his career with Georgia Power in 1983. In addition to positions in sales and marketing, customer service, distribution, and community and legislative relations, Weaver was responsible for consolidating two Georgia Power customer care centers into one center. He has a broad background in customer operations including experience in call center operations, meter reading, retail business operations, credit and collections, and back office billing exceptions.

Erickson is a certified public accountant with 15 years experience in various accounting and operating roles. Most recently she served as the controller for an automotive parts company which supplied both original equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket. She joined Southern Company earlier this year as assistant-to the senior vice president, comptroller and CFO of Southern Company Services.

With 4 million customers and nearly 37,000 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 fast-growing competitive generation company and an energy services business, 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 No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s 2002 “America’s Most Admired Companies” list in the Electric and Gas Utility industry. Southern Company has more than 500,000 shareholders, making its common stock one of the most widely held in the United States.