David Campbell joined Evergy in January 2021 as President and CEO and in May 2024 became Chairman and CEO. Under Campbell’s leadership, Evergy focuses on providing safe, affordable, and reliable service to its 1.7 million electric customers in Kansas and Missouri. The company’s corporate initiatives and capital investments target an enhanced customer experience, grid modernization, improved reliability and resiliency, cost competitiveness, and the ongoing transition of the company’s generation fleet. These initiatives support economic development and enable the company to provide affordable and regionally competitive rates for customers, while at the same time advancing the sustainability goals of Evergy and its stakeholders. Campbell and his team are dedicated to ensuring that Evergy provides a rewarding and professional work environment for employees and engages as a trusted partner in the communities Evergy serves.

As executive vice president and chief operating officer for Evergy, Kevin Bryant has management responsibility for all utility operations, including generation operations and generation services, transmission operations, transmission and delivery services, distribution operations and customer operations.

As Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Buckler leads Evergy’s corporate finance functions, including Treasury, Accounting, Planning, Tax, Internal Audit, Capital Allocation, Investor Relations, and provides oversight and leadership over Evergy’s Supply Chain organization.

As executive vice president of marketing and public affairs, and chief customer officer, Chuck Caisley leads the energy solutions and public affairs areas with responsibility for the company's small-scale generation projects, energy products and services platform, energy efficiency and demand response portfolio, community and customer strategy and communications, marketing, economic development, governmental affairs and public relations functions. He joined KCP&L in 2007.

As an senior vice president, chief human resources officer and chief diversity officer at Evergy, Lesley Elwell leads the human resources organization with an emphasis on talent strategy, employee engagement, organizational development and performance management. She has more than 25 years of experience holding human resources and operations leadership roles for large, publicly-traded companies in consumer and business-to-business industries.

Heather Humphrey leads Evergy’s legal and compliance divisions with responsibility for all litigation, regulatory and corporate legal matters as well as compliance and audit functions.

As senior vice president and chief technology officer, Charles King leads all IT and security functions spanning corporate and operations applications, cyber and physical security, corporate infrastructure including network, data centers, telephony, field communications, enterprise architecture, project management, testing, help desk, and desktop support. Recent responsibility has included corporate enablement of data/analytics and artificial intelligence.

As vice president, generation, John Bridson leads a team overseeing more than 15,000 megawatts of diverse generating capacity, including renewables, coal, gas and oil. Mr. Bridson also serves on the board of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, providing oversite for Evergy’s nuclear plant. Mr. Bridson also oversees the power marketing operations and energy trading functions, as well as the Safety, Training and Operations support for all of operations.

As vice president, customer operations, Julie Dragoo leads the organization’s customer service and customer facing operations functions: customer call center and business solutions, billing services, metering operations, credit and collections, customer data analytics, and other customer support functions. Ms. Dragoo brings a breadth of experience leading operational teams across multiple locations, enhancing financial performance, customer service and fostering a collaborative team environment adaptable to changing business needs.

As vice president, state and federal regulatory policy, Kevin Gunn manages Evergy’s regulatory relationships in Missouri and oversees federal policy development, including RTO policy. He has unique insight into all aspects of regulatory and governmental affairs, including state and federal regulations, strategic planning and public policy issues. He joined Evergy in 2023.

As vice president of development, Jason Humphrey leads Evergy’s effort to add generation resources to our fleet and finance our business.

As vice president, regulatory affairs, Darrin Ives oversees the strategic development and administration of pricing, rates, rules and regulations, revenue requirements, tariff filings, and customer contracts at federal and Kansas and Missouri levels. He also is responsible for ensuring regulatory affairs supports corporate strategies and objectives and satisfies the complex and rigorous requirements of regulatory rules, policies and processes.

As vice president, chief ethics officer and assistant general counsel, Kara Larson champions Evergy’s commitment to achieving a culture of ethics and compliance including investigations and federal regulatory compliance. She is also responsible for Evergy’s contract, commercial, labor and employment, litigation, and nuclear legal work.

As Vice President, Corporate Planning and Treasurer, Mr. Ley is responsible for budgeting, forecasting, benchmarking and analysis.  

As vice president, large customer strategy, Jeff Martin will lead commercial negotiations with large customers and data centers, integrating efforts with Operations, Regulatory and Economic Development.

As vice president of public affairs for Evergy, Katie McDonald leads the marketing, corporate communications, digital customer experience and community relations departments. She is responsible for leading the development and execution of internal and external communications and marketing strategies, including employee communications, media relations, public advocacy, issues/crisis management, marketing, advertising, branding, digital customer strategy, customer affairs and community relations.

As vice president, distribution, Ryan Mulvany has management responsibility for distribution operations including system operations, construction and maintenance, contracting services, vegetation management, asset management and analytics.

As vice president and chief nuclear officer of Evergy, Inc. Cleve Reasoner has management responsibility of Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (WCNOC), a subsidiary of the company, and is responsible for the safe operation of Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station.

As vice president of talent management and analytics, Tom Sullivan leads human resources, with responsibility for the company’s talent acquisition, leadership development, organization development, human resource information systems, workforce analytics and payroll functions. He joined Evergy in 2021.

As vice president, transmission, Steve Vetsch leads transmission operations, including siting, construction and maintenance, system operations and real estate.