Paul Wood

Paul Wood serves as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Georgia Electric Membership Corporation (GEMC). GEMC represents Georgia's 41 Electric Membership Corporations (EMCs) providing service to more than 5 million residents and businesses in Georgia.
Prior to Wood becoming President/CEO of GEMC in September 1997, he served from 1983 to 1997 as Executive Director of the Association of Louisiana Electric Cooperatives, Inc. He began his rural electric career in 1965 at East Central Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, Inc. and in 1977 was appointed General Manager of Dixie EMC, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

During his rural electric career, Wood has served as President of the Rural Electric Statewide Managers' Association (RESMA); as a member of the NRECA Management Advisory Committee; NRECA Procedures Committee; the NRECA Unity Task Force, the NRECA Health Care Task Force and the Touchstone Energy board of directors.

Wood received a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Northwestern Louisiana State University.

Wood currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Department of Economic Development; the Georgia Corporation for Economic Development, Inc.; and the Board of Governors of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. He also serves as the Chairman of the Georgia Tourism Foundation Board, 4-H Foundation Board of Trustees and is a member of the FDR Warm Springs Memorial Advisory Committee, and the Go Build Georgia Educational Foundation. In 2011 he was appointed to Governor Deal's Georgia Competitiveness Initiative Steering Committee. In 2010 he won the Ferst Foundation's 'CEO Reader of the Year Award.' In 2004, he served as Co-Chairman of the Governor's Conference on Tourism and in 2007 he was appointed by Governor Perdue to Chair the Commission for a New Georgia's Service Delivery Task Force and in 2009 served on the Governor's Water Advisory Committee.

Wood is a member of St. Jude's Episcopal Church, Marietta, Georgia. He has participated in numerous mission trips to Honduras.

Wood served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Special Forces (Airborne) and the Louisiana National Guard.