Scott Morris is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Avista Corp. He was elected president in May 2006. In February 2007, the board of directors named Morris chairman and chief executive officer of Avista Corp., effective Jan. 1, 2008. Avista Utilities is the company’s regulated operating division, It serves over 348,000 electric customers in eastern Washington and northern Idaho and provides natural gas service to 305,000 customers in eastern Washington, nort... 

Marian Durkin is senior vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer for Avista Corp. As the chief legal officer, she provides counsel and guidance to the Avista Corp. board of directors and officers on legal matters relevant to the company and its subsidiaries. As chief compliance officer, Durkin is responsible for coordinating and overseeing Avista’s ethics and compliance programs.

Prior to joining Avista in 2005, Durkin was vice president deputy general counsel an... 

Karen Feltes is senior vice president of human resources and corporate secretary for Avista Corp. Previously, Feltes served as the senior director of corporate human resources and general services for Avista. Prior to that, she held the positions of human resources business partner and diversity manager.

Feltes is an accomplished human resources professional, with a 20-year career spanning the breadth of domestic and international human resource issues in both the public and pr... 

Christy Burmeister-Smith is vice president, controller and principal accounting officer for Avista Corp. She is responsible for financial and accounting activities, as well as records of the corporation, its assets and its business affiliates.

Burmeister-Smith joined Avista Corp. in 1980 as an accountant and has served in a variety of roles in the accounting area, including controller for the company’s energy delivery business unit. Prior to her current position, she was the vic... 

James M. Kensok is vice president and chief information officer for Avista Corp. He is responsible for the leadership and strategic advancement of enterprise information technology strategies.

Kensok started his career with Avista in 1996 as an internal information systems auditor. He has held positions as manager and director of information systems for Avista Utilities, chief security officer for Avista Corp. and has been the chief information officer for Avista Corp. over the... 

Don Kopczynski is vice president for Avista Corp., and vice president of transmission and distribution operations for Avista Utilities. Previously, he was general manager of energy delivery for Avista Utilities. Kopczynski has gained broad insights in the utility business, having worked for Avista for over two decades.

Kopczynski began his career with Avista in 1979 as an electrical engineer. Since then he has been promoted to various positions, including: district man... 

David J. Meyer joined Avista Corp. as senior vice president and general counsel in September of 1998 and was named to his current position in 2004. Meyer had been involved with the company for 20 years as a member of Paine Hamblen Coffin Brooke and Miller, one of Spokane’s leading law firms.

Meyer is a native of Glendive, Montana, and is a graduate of Valparaiso University, where he received political science and economics degrees. He is a 1978 graduate of Cornell University Law... 

Kelly Norwood is vice president of Avista Corp. and vice president of state and federal regulation for Avista Utilities. Norwood was named a corporate officer in November of 2000. He was appointed vice president of state and federal regulation for Avista Utilities in July 2001. Prior to that he served as vice president and general manager of energy resources for Avista Utilities from August 2000 through July 2001.

He joined the company in June 1981, working many years within th... 

Dick Storro is vice president of Avista Corp. and vice president for energy resources for Avista Utilities. He joined Avista in 1973 and has held management positions in engineering, operations, generation and transmission. Prior to his current appointment, Storro served as president of Avista Ventures, a renewables development subsidiary of Avista Corp.

Storro is past chairman of the board of Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest. He currently serves on the board, as well... 

Jason Thackston is vice president, finance, for Avista Corp. He is responsible for financing and capital activities, including oversight of banking relations, the capital structure of the corporation, pension assets and future corporate financings. In addition, Thackston’s responsibilities include the areas of corporate development, investor relations, risk management, and planning and analysis.

Thackston joined Avista in 1996 and has held leadership positions in energy resource... 

Mark Thies is senior vice president and chief financial officer of Avista Corp. He joined the company in September 2008. Thies is an accomplished leader with extensive experience in finance, risk management, accounting and administration in the utility sector. Prior to joining Avista, Thies was executive vice president and chief financial officer for Black Hills Corporation, a diversified energy company providing regulated electric and natural gas service to areas of South Dakota, Wyoming... 

Dennis Vermillion is senior vice president for Avista Corp. and vice president of energy resources for Avista Utilities. Previously, Vermillion was president and chief operating officer for Avista Energy from February 2001 until June 2007. He joined Avista in 1985 and has held various staff and management positions. With over 20 years in the company, Vermillion’s experience covers a broad range of activities, including leadership, trading, marketing, risk management, scheduling, resour... 

Roger Woodworth is vice president for Avista Corp. and vice president for Sustainable Energy Solutions for Avista Utilities. Previously, he was vice president of operations for Avista Utilities and vice president for corporate business development.

Woodworth received his Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife biology from Washington State University in 1978. He is also an alumnus of Columbia University’s Senior Executive Program.

Woodworth began his career at Avi...