Allete Vice President and Corporate Treasurer Jeff Scissons has been promoted to chief financial officer. He succeeds Steven W. Morris, who recently announced his plan to retire in July.
Scissons joined the company in 2013 and was promoted to Allete vice president and corporate treasurer in 2024 after serving in key strategic roles throughout his tenure.
Over a dozen years at Allete, he led various strategic initiatives, including the acquisition of New Energy Equity and the divestiture of U.S. Water. He currently leads the transition committee for the acquisition of Allete by Canada Pension Plan Investments Board (CPPIB) and Global Infrastructure Fund (GIP).
“Jeff’s financial acumen and his principled, values-based, people-focused leadership have been instrumental in the development and successful execution of Allete’s Sustainability-in-Action strategy, and I am excited to work closely with him in this new role,” said Allete CEO Bethany Owen. “His strategic approach to challenges and opportunities make him well suited for this role, as Allete continues to be a trusted leader in the clean-energy transformation and we advance the acquisition with our partners.”
Scissons joined the company as a financial analyst after 12 years at Northern Asset Management in Duluth doing research and investing in electric and gas utilities. He was named manager – financial planning and analysis in 2015 and assistant treasurer in 2016.
In 2022, he accepted the role of Allete Clean Energy’s chief financial and strategy officer and expanded his role in October 2023 to corporate development and Allete Clean Energy’s strategy officer before being named Allete vice president and corporate treasurer in 2024.
“Allete is entering a new period of exciting growth opportunities, as we transition to a privately held company. With strong support from our partners CPP and GIP, we are positioned for even greater success and will continue to execute our Sustainability-in-Action strategy at all our businesses,” Scissons said. “For more than a century, our businesses have provided critical services in the regions we serve as well as being premier employers. People are always the foundation of any company’s achievements, and I am honored to work with Allete’s talented, collaborative, innovative and hard-working team.”
Scissons graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2000 with a degree in finance. He also was a captain and academic All-American as a hockey player at UMD.
-- Allete press release
