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Avista Leadership

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Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Avista executive team is 31% female and 69% male.
  • 59% of the management team is White.
  • 15% of Avista management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Anil Valbh

Founder

Dennis P. Vermillion

Board Member

Dennis Vermillion serves as the president and CEO of Avista Corp. He also holds the position of chairman of the board of directors for Avista Corp. subsidiary Alaska Electric Light and Power Company.

Dennis joined Avista in 1985 and has held various staff and management positions. His experience covers a broad range of activities, including leadership, energy trading and marketing, risk management, scheduling, resource operations, power/transmission contracting, resource planning and coordination, regulatory issues and production cost modeling. Previously, Dennis served as senior vice president of Avista Corp. and president of Avista Utilities, vice president of energy resources and prior to that, as president and chief operating officer for Avista Energy from February 2001, until its sale in June 2007.

Scott L. Morris

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Heidi B. Stanley

Audit Committee, Environmental, Technology and Operations Committee, Executive Committee

Janet Widmann

Board Member

Kristianne Blake

Board Member

Scott H. Maw

Board Member

Don Burke

Board Member

Jeff Philipps

Board Member

Rebecca A. Klein

Board Member

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Anil Valbh

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Dennis P. Vermillion

Board Member

Dennis Vermillion serves as the president and CEO of Avista Corp. He also holds the position of chairman of the board of directors for Avista Corp. subsidiary Alaska Electric Light and Power Company.

Dennis joined Avista in 1985 and has held various staff and management positions. His experience covers a broad range of activities, including leadership, energy trading and marketing, risk management, scheduling, resource operations, power/transmission contracting, resource planning and coordination, regulatory issues and production cost modeling. Previously, Dennis served as senior vice president of Avista Corp. and president of Avista Utilities, vice president of energy resources and prior to that, as president and chief operating officer for Avista Energy from February 2001, until its sale in June 2007.

Scott L. Morris

Executive Committee

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Heidi B. Stanley

Audit Committee, Environmental, Technology and Operations Committee, Executive Committee

Janet Widmann

Board Member

Kristianne Blake

Board Member

Scott H. Maw

Board Member

Don Burke

Board Member

Jeff Philipps

Board Member

Rebecca A. Klein

Board Member

Sena Kwawu

Board Member

Avista leadership demographics

Avista gender distribution in management team

  • The Avista executive team is 31% female and 69% male.
  • Avista is 52% female and 48% male company-wide.
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Male
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Company-wide: 48%
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Company-wide: 52%

Avista executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Avista executive officers is White.
  • 59% of the management team is White.
  • 15% of Avista's management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 13% of the management team is Asian.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 68% of employees are White.
  • 13% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 9% of employees are Black or African American.
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A zippia user wrote a review on Jun 2020
Pros of working at Avista

The only thing I enjoyed about Avista were the people, at least those that weren't racist. Most management were poor leaders, and most did not have the experience necessary for the position. Gas dept. was run by electrical engineers that did not have the knowledge to be managing a gas dept. Check it out, it's still the same, managers that not only don't know the field work, but are also poor leaders and treat their employees poorly. I could write a book on their failings.

Cons of working at Avista

Lack of opportunity for minority employees. Avista works with the racist IBEW in Spokane, I was threatened for doing a good job, and the IBEW and Avista threatened me and also did away with my position, then forced me into something else. I was also reprimanded for no reason, I did not sign it, so HR did it for me. They with held my pay increase that year. When I retired, they were giving a severance package, they made you sign a letter that you would not sue if you didn't get it. They gave it to non-productive office workers, I was retiring and worked in the office, but I was refused the package. There was also the WSU connection which allowed these individuals to not only get one severance but they received two, a package given when the Texans came to town. Those that were WSU alumni received the next one also after beincompanies and corporations in spokane wa quality of systemic racismg rehired, yet I was refused by my manager to be allowed the severance package. Lack of adversity in management through out the company.

Avista benefits

I received my retirement, pension, and the 401k was probably my favorite perk.

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