Martin Davis Biography and Net Worth

Martin Davis is executive vice president of Southern Company Services and
chiefinformationofficerof SouthernCompany,oneofAmerica’smost respected
companiesand aleading producerofclean, safe, reliableandaffordable energy
serving more than 9 million customers. Davis leads more than 2,000 technology
professionals, supporting Southern Company’s subsidiaries.
Davis has spent over 30 years leading complex technology organizations in highly regulated environments. He
servedasheadofenterpriseinformationtechnology,executivevicepresidentandchief technologyofficeratWells
Fargo. He was instrumental in the financial institution’s integration of Wachovia, leading the largest technology
integrationinthehistoryof U.S.financialservices.Davishas servedinawiderangeof technologyleadershiproles,
including serving as Wachovia’s chief information officer.
Davis formerly served on the board of trustees at Winston-Salem State University. He currently serves on the
American Heart Association’s Southeast region board, the Piedmont Healthcare board of directors and the
South State Corporation board ofdirectors. He has been recognized as one of the “50 Most Important AfricanAmericans in Technology” by U.S. Black Engineers & Information Technology magazine and one of the “75 Most
Powerful African-Americans in Corporate America” by Black Enterprise. Most recently, Davis was featured in
Savoy Magazine’s “2020 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America”.
Davisholdsabachelor’sdegreeinbusinessadministrationfromWinston-SalemState Universityandisagraduate
of the Young Executives Institute and the Wachovia Executive Leadership Program at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
For more than a century Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO), has been building the future of energy and
developing the full portfolio of energy resources. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation and a
low-carbonfuture,SouthernCompanyanditssubsidiariesdevelopthecustomizedenergysolutionsourcustomers
and communities require to drive growth and prosperity.
Southern Company has been recognized as one of the 100 “Best Places to Work in IT” by IDG’s Computerworld for
14 consecutive years and top “50 Best Companies for Diversity” by Black Enterprise in 2018.