1. F. CHARLES CARMICHAEL
P.O. Box 284, Keswick, Virginia 22947 • m: 434-242-6166 • f: 540-832-2838 • fc2@aol.com
SUMMARY
• Career focus: developing business strategy and communications to balance complex
regulatory, company, customer, and shareholder interests.
• Effective leader of and participant in multidisciplinary teams.
• An innovative, results-driven professional with a record of achievement in public and
regulatory policy, business strategy, management, and consulting.
• Expert knowledge of electric utility and energy issues.
SKILLS
• Managing a multidisciplinary team of professionals to deliver outstanding products
within a firm deadline.
• Developing budgets for multiple programs and accomplishing goals within those
budgets.
• Reducing complex, abstract policy and scientific ideas to specific, tangible steps.
• Simplifying complex data to produce persuasive speeches, presentations, articles in trade
journals, and op-eds in newspapers.
• Balancing business, regulator, and customer interests to develop achievable strategic
plans and communications with acceptable public policy and business outcomes.
• Advising executives on political and public policy positioning to satisfy diverse
constituencies.
• Developing and writing clear and logical speeches, white papers, and presentations.
• Producing polished reports in Word and draft presentations in PowerPoint.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Analyzed and explained regulatory barriers to utility-scale battery storage for a national
energy association.
• Developed an electricity competition plan for Arizona in response to regulatory
mandates to deregulate electric generation assets.
• Crafted business plans with team of engineers and operators for an electric generation
subsidiary in response to regulator deregulation mandates; wrote key speeches, papers.
• Retooled strategic plans and communications for Arizona electric utility when California
deregulation fiasco (Enron) occurred and Arizona abandoned deregulation.
• Incorporated shifting deregulation policy imperatives and financial impacts in strategic
speeches and shareholder letters for CEOs and speeches for governors.
• Positioned strategic response to regulatory mandates for Arizona utility to shift to
renewable generation resources.
• Developed company responses to regulator and legislator inquiries about smart grid and
cyber security initiatives.
• Managed public rollout of wholesale generation competition in Virginia with cross-
department team.
• Led team crafting business plans and key performance indicators with cost control and
other data-driven insights for two corporate divisions of a Fortune 500 company.
• Interpreted complex financial and regulatory proceeding for a public audience with a
concise, understandable PowerPoint presentation.

2. • Developed campaign briefing papers on impact of regulation on nuclear power for two
U.S. Presidential candidates.
• Interpreted complex financial and regulatory proceeding for a public audience with a
concise, understandable PowerPoint presentation.
• Managed contributions from a multidisciplinary team to build a competitively bid
transmission project and completed the complex, 300-page bid on deadline.
• Analyzed and reported on successes and shortcomings of U.S. nuclear industry’s
response to Fukushima incident with a team of industry leaders.
• Contributed to due diligence team evaluating large manufacturing plant purchase.
CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
CARMICHAEL & COMPANY
President, 1995-present, Charlottesville, Virginia
Provides business and communications strategy and strategic communications, public
policy analysis (white papers), business plans, and other public policy services.
• Clients: Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Arizona Public Service, Pinnacle West, Exelon,
Entergy, Dominion, Nuclear Energy Institute, Burson-Marstellar, Solar Electric Power
Association, TransCanyon (joint venture between Berkshire Hathaway Energy and
Pinnacle West)
• Business and regulatory strategy and communications counsel and writing for
Fortune 500 CEOs
• Key speeches, editorials, and testimony on electric utility deregulation
• Regulatory policy analysis and writing for national (Washington, D.C.) associations
• White papers for U.S. Presidential candidates
CORPORATE/INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE
VIRGINIA POWER
Manager-Public Policy
Director-Community Affairs
Director-News Services
Supervisor-Employee Communications
OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
Technical Writer/Editor, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH
CAROLINA, OTHERS
College Teacher
EDUCATION
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Ph.D., National Defense Education Act
Fellowship, teaching assistant
The University of Tennessee, M.A., Non-Service Graduate Fellowship. B.A.,
Phi Beta Kappa
INTERESTS
Stock market, cultural history, music, wine, sports