Executive Profiles

Benjamin G. Fowke III 

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Benjamin (Ben) Fowke is vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) of Xcel Energy. Previously he served as vice president and treasurer.

Before being named vice president and treasurer in 2002, Fowke was vice president and CFO of Energy Markets, where he was responsible for financial operations of the company’s commodities trading and marketing business unit. Before the 2000 merger between Northern States Power Co. and New Century Energies (NCE) to form Xcel Energy, he was a vice president in the NCE Retail business unit.

He came to NCE from FP&L Group, where he held various finance positions. Before joining FP&L Group, he was a manager of Financial Reporting with DWG Corp., supervisor of Internal Audits with the Dart Group and an auditor with KPMG.

He is a board member of the Milestone Growth Fund.

Fowke earned a bachelor of science degree in finance/accounting from Towson University. He obtained his CPA in 1982.