Stephen Hawke

As senior vice president of Customer Service & Delivery, Steve Hawke has more than 36 years of experience in various Transmission, Distribution, Customer Service and sales positions. He currently oversees Distribution, System Planning & Engineering, Transmission Services, Customer Service, Customers & Economic Development and a variety of utility services and energy efficiency/sustainability groups.

Hawke joined PGE in 1973 and has spent most of his career working in the company's Distribution Service regions. His early years involved a variety of engineering assignments, as well as managing the Southern Region and Western Region. Hawke also was manager of Response & Restoration and general manager of Delivery System Planning & Engineering before he settled into his current position in 1997.

A 1971 graduate of Oregon State University in Corvallis, Hawke earned two bachelor's degrees, one in electrical engineering and the other in mathematics. He also holds a master's degree in business administration from Portland State University and has completed the Public Utility Executive Program at the University of Idaho.

Now residing in Portland with his wife, Denise, Hawke enjoys coaching youth chess, soccer, basketball and baseball. He holds numerous positions with a variety of civic organizations including the Portland School Foundation, the PSU Business Advisory Board, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, SOLV, the Oregon High School Chess Association, the Oregon Engineering Education Foundation and the PGE Foundation, the corporate foundation of Portland General Electric.

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