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accession: "0001628280-24-046825"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000788816"
company_name: "OGLETHORPE POWER CORP"
filed_at: "2024-11-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T02:29:23.438911+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Oglethorpe Power appoints Annalisa Bloodworth as President and CEO effective Feb 1, 2025

## Summary
- Bloodworth, currently SVP and General Counsel, will succeed retiring CEO Mike Smith (40-year energy industry career).
- Employment agreement provides base salary of $906,000 per year, initial term through Dec 31, 2027 with auto-renewal.
- Bloodworth joined Oglethorpe in 2010, served as Deputy General Counsel before becoming General Counsel in 2017.
- Board conducted a thorough search; chairman cites Bloodworth's integrity and alignment with cooperative mission.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-046825
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000788816
- company_name: OGLETHORPE POWER CORP
- filed_at: 2024-11-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788816/000162828024046825/0001628280-24-046825-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788816/000162828024046825/opc-20241105.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-046825
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-046825.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-046825.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Annalisa Bloodworth was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at OGLETHORPE POWER CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On November 5, 2024, our board of directors appointed Annalisa Bloodworth, 46, as our next President and Chief Executive Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788816/000162828024046825/0001628280-24-046825-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.