Jim Pearson

James F. Pearson is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of FirstEnergy Corp., a Fortune 500 electric utility headquartered in Akron, Ohio. He spent his career assisting with FirstEnergy’s financial planning, capital structuring and restructuring, as well as mergers & acquisitions. In addition, he served as the Chair of the investment committee of FirstEnergy’s $6 billion nuclear decommissioning trust.

Pearson began his career in 1976 at Ohio Edison Company’s subsidiary, Pennsylvania Power Company. In 1977, Ohio Edison merged with Centerior Energy to form FirstEnergy. He held several positions in the Accounting department before being named Director of Financial Reporting at Ohio Edison in 1992.

In 2001, Pearson was promoted to Group Controller for FirstEnergy Solutions, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. operating in the competitive market. In 2004, he was named Group Controller of FirstEnergy’s Strategic Planning and Operations Group. Shortly thereafter, he was named Treasurer of FirstEnergy. Pearson was promoted to Vice President and Treasurer in 2006, and to Senior Vice President and Treasurer in 2012. He was elected Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2013, and finally Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2015.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA. Pearson completed the Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the Harvard Business School’s executive education program “Driving Corporate Performance”.