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Venita McCellon-Allen is president and chief operating officer of Southwestern Electric Power Company, serving approximately 439,000 customers in Louisiana, Arkansas and northeast Texas. She has authority for distribution operations and a wide range of customer and regulatory relationships.
She was named senior vice president-Shared Services in 2004, responsible for human resources, information technology and telecommunications, procurement and supply chain services, corporate services and enterprise security.
Prior to that, she was senior vice president for human resources for Baylor Health Care System in Dallas, Texas. A 17-year veteran of Central and South West Corp., McCellon-Allen held leadership roles at CSW in operations, customer service, strategic planning and human resources. Her last position there was senior vice president for corporate development and customer service.
McCellon-Allen was a leader on the Transition Management Team for the AEP-CSW merger, helping to drive the process of seeking savings, cultural change, staff selection and functional realignment.
In 1983, she joined Southwestern Electric Power, then a CSW subsidiary, as a communications representative, and by 1994-95 she was SWEPCO’s Central Division manager in Texarkana, Texas. McCellon-Allen moved to Dallas in 1995 to become vice president-corporate services. She became senior vice president-corporate development in 1996 and senior vice president for both customer relations and corporate development in 1998.
Joining Baylor Health Care System in September 2000, McCellon-Allen led strategic initiatives to make BHCS a preferred health care employer. BHCS is an integrated health care delivery network with 14,000 employees and about $3 billion in annual revenues.
McCellon-Allen earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Texas A&M University. She is also a graduate of the University of Chicago’s Executive Development Program and the Young Managers Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. She is certified as a Professional in Human Resources by the Society for Human Resource Management. | 