Page 51 - Delaware Business Times - DE222
P. 51
ENERGY & UTILITIES FOOD & BEVERAGE
Doug Mokoid
Delmarva Power and Atlantic City Electric
As a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation, Delmarva Power is a century-old
utility service that serves 532,000 electric customers in Delaware and Maryland, as well as 138,000 natural gas customers in northern Delaware. Doug Mokoid was tapped to be region president in 2021, with 14 years of work within the Exelon companies. Previous roles include Director of Operation for Atlantic City Electric where he led a team of 325 employees for construction and maintenance as well as business planning. Other notable roles include 10 years with Philadelphia-based PECO, where he ran the Philadelphia Region Construction and Maintenance organization and three years with Public Service Electric and Gas as a lead engineer.
ALMA MATERS:
BOARDS:
Q&A:
Drew Slater
Sustainable Energy Utility, Inc. (Energize Delaware)
Andrew “Drew” Slater was named the leader of Energize Delaware in early 2023, tasked with leading the nonprofit that aids residents, businesses, non- profits, government facilities, farms and schools become energy efficient. Before becoming the second executive director of Energize Delaware, Slater built a resume of 20 years of experience in various roles, such as Delaware’s Public Advocate, then-Rep. John Carney’s Kent and Sussex Coordinator and legislative assistant for the state senate. In his work with the Office of Public Advocate, he worked to strengthen the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standards and the competition of the Artificial Island project to improve reliability
for the electric grid.
ALMA MATERS:
BOARDS:
Q&A:
Dian Taylor
Artesian Resources
Dian Taylor has served as Artesian Resources’ CEO since 1992, and under her vision, the company has grown from serving water to customers
in northern New Castle County to one of the largest investor-owned water and wastewater utilities in the region. The company has 300,000 customers throughout the state
and in northern Maryland, through acquiring municipal water systems in southern Delaware in recent years. In 2022, the company added a new elevated storage tank to add 1 million water storage for Sussex County and is planning a second tank for New Castle County. The company supplies 8.7 billion gallons of water per year through 1,442 miles of main to over a third of Delawareans.
Javier Acuna
Hakuna Hospitality Group
Overseeing the parent company of more than half a dozen restaurants and markets in Newark and Wilmington
is just one of the focuses of Hakuna Hospitality Group owner Javier Acuna. He also is the founder of Food First Delaware, which helped feed first responders during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Santa Fe, one
of Hakuna’s restaurants, has earned Delaware Today’s “Restaurant of
the Year” title multiple times since opening. Acuna focuses on using locally grown produce when possible at his restaurants, which he has been expanding in northern Delaware. Two more Del Pez restaurants are slated
to soon open in Pennsylvania and Newark.
DelawareBusinessTimes.com | DELAWARE 222 49
