Peggy Fowler
- January 10, 2024
- Businessperson
Quick Facts
Full Name | Peggy Fowler |
Date Of Birth | Jul 14, 1951(1951-07-14) |
Age | 73 |
Birthplace | Nampa |
Country | United States |
Birth City | Idaho |
Horoscope | Cancer |
Peggy Fowler Biography
Birthday | Jul 14 |
Birth Year | 1951 |
Peggy Fowler is one of the most popular and richest Businessperson who was born on July 14, 1951 in Nampa, Idaho, United States. Peggy Fowler was born in Nampa, Idaho, on July 14 in 1951. A daughter of an Quaker minister Fowler lived in Oregon initially in Portland. Fowler was the smallest of five children in the family, and the oldest being nearly nine years old than the youngest. As a child in a strict family, she was not allowed to play with television until the age of 10 and she did not go to movies until she was in college. At the age of two until age 5, she was wearing an eye patch on her right eye. She legally blind on one side. When she was in the fifth grade, the family relocated away from Portland in Oregon to Hillsboro, Oregon, a suburb in the west. She excelled at school in maths and also played the flute while looking to be an astronomer.
Enron bought PGE in 1997, and then operated the business as a wholly owned subsidiary. The year 1998 saw Fowler was appointed a director of the company. She also served as chief operating officer. She held the title until. She was the president of the Enron’s Portland General Holdings corporation from 1999 until 2003 when the company declared bankruptcy. Then, she was named chairperson of the board of PGE in 2001 and remained as chairperson until the beginning of 2004. Fowler was PGE’s president from 1998 until April 2000. Then, in April of 2000 Fowler received a promotion to the post chief executive officer of the company.
Peggy Fowler is married and has two stepchildren. She lives with her husband Robert in Tigard, Oregon. She is a board member of the Oregon Business Council, Oregon Independent College Foundation, and several regional healthcare organizations. She won the Utility Women’s Leadership Conference’s Leadership Award in 2000. In June 2007, she was appointed to the board of the Portland branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and awarded the Portland First Citizen Award.
Following college, she started working at an organization called the Oregon Graduate Institute School of Science and Engineering and hoped to get the Ph.D. at the school. The year 1974 was when Fowler started working at Portland General Electric as a Chemist. She then started her climb to the top of the ladder initially as the director of PGE’s environment and analytical services department. Fowler was hired in the 1980s to be the head of PGE’s customer service department at Gresham, Oregon. The first woman to be the manager in this division which comprises line repair crews, meters reading and billing.
Peggy Fowler Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Businessperson |
House | Living in own house. |
Peggy Fowler is one of the richest Businessperson from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peggy Fowler 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Peggy Y. Fowler (born July 14th 1951) is an American businesswoman from Oregon. Oregon. She was CEO (CEO) at Portland General Electric (PGE) in 2007 and was the 11th highest-paid Chief Executive Officer in Oregon. Born in Idaho She worked for PGE the private electric utility from 1974 until 2009.
After graduating from high school, Fowler went on to attend George Fox College, a Quaker school located in Newberg, Oregon. She majored at college in math and chemistry. In 1973, she graduated with an honors degree from these subjects. She also did graduate studies at The University of Michigan and the University of Idaho. She got married for the first time when she was 21 and divorced that was finalized within a couple of years.
Fowler was named by the Portland Business Journal in 2005 as Oregon’s most admired CEO. In April 2006, PGE became its own company again when its stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Fowler and seven other employees of the utility rang the opening bell at the stock exchange on April 10, 2006. In 2007, Fowler was paid by PGE a total of almost $2.3 million in compensation, making her the 11th highest paid CEO in Oregon, and the highest paid female CEO in the state. Fowler retired from the company in March 2009 and joined the board of directors where she stayed until May 2012. She joined the board of directors at Umpqua Holdings Corp. in 2009 and became chair of the board in 2012.
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