Semco names chief financial officer

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

Semco Energy Inc. said Jan. 3 that John E. Schneider has been appointed chief financial officer effective immediately.

Schneider had been executive vice president and chief operating officer of Semco Energy Gas Co., the Michigan division of the company’s natural gas distribution utility, since February 2001.

In another top-level change, Jon A. Kosht, president and chief executive officer of the company’s Michigan’s utility, Semco Energy Gas Co., will assume chief operating officer duties for utility operations in Michigan and Alaska.

Tony Izzo, president of Enstar Natural Gas Co., Semco’s Alaska natural gas distribution division, will report directly to Kosht.