Mark Mulhern Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Progress Energy, Inc. Download photo

Mark Mulhern is chief financial officer of Progress Energy. Mulhern oversees the Financial Services group.

Mulhern joined Progress Energy (formerly Carolina Power & Light) in 1996 as vice president and controller. He served as vice president and treasurer from 1997 through 2000, when he assumed the role of vice president – strategic planning at the close of the merger with Florida Progress in 2000. He served as senior vice president of competitive commercial operations in Progress Ventures from 2003 to 2005. He served as the President of Progress Ventures from 2005-2008, the unregulated subsidiary of Progress Energy that divested substantially all of its $4 billion of assets between 2006-2007. Mulhern served as Senior Vice President of Finance from 2007-2008.
 
Before joining the company, Mulhern was the chief financial officer at Hydra Co Enterprises, the independent power subsidiary of Niagara Mohawk. He also spent eight years at Price Waterhouse in Syracuse, serving a wide variety of manufacturing and service businesses. 

Mulhern serves on the EEI Financial Executive Advisory Committee and is on the board of directors of Microcell Corporation. He has served in a number of volunteer and leadership roles with local and professional agencies ranging from St. Michael’s elementary school to Leadership North Carolina and the Planning Institute of Central New York. He is a 1982 graduate of St. Bonaventure University. He is a certified public accountant, a certified management accountant, and a certified internal auditor. He has completed the nuclear executive program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.