Mary Doswell, Virginia Dominion Power's Senior Vice President of Alternative Energy Solutions will be the keynote speaker at the Women in Technology Conference that will be presented by the Halifax County Chamber of Commerce and Women in Business.

The conference will be held on October 22, 2012 in Riverstone Conference Room at Riverstone Technology Park (1100 Confroy Drive, South Boston, VA) from 11:15am - 1:30pm.  The event will be catered by Four Oaks Restaurant and is sponsored by the Chamber, Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative, Halifax Regional Health System, and Halifax County IDA.

Tickets are $20 for Chamber members and $25 for non-members; download a pdf registration form.

Mary C. Doswell’s responsibilities include enhancing and expanding Dominion’s focus on “smart grid” technologies, energy efficiency, and alternative energy generation in conjunction with the appropriate business units.

She previously served as senior vice president-Regulation & Integrated Planning, and president and chief executive officer of Dominion Resources Services Inc. Doswell joined Dominion’s Virginia Power subsidiary as an economist. She has held leadership positions in several Dominion operating units, including Regulation, Market Research, Forecasting, Market Analysis and Planning, Marketing, Corporate Center Restructuring, Corporate Strategy, Construction and Customer Service, Metering Services, and Billing and Credit.

She assumed her current position in April 2009. She is a governor appointee to the Virginia Offshore Wind Authority and serves on the boards of directors of Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, Theatre IV, St . Cather ine’s School Foundat ion, Vi rginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering Foundation, and Venture Richmond, of which she is vice chairman. She also is chairman of the board of the Sustainable Transportation Initiative of Richmond, a member of the Richmond Ballet Corporate Council, and chair for the American Heart Association’s 2013 “Go Red for Women” campaign.

Doswell received her B.A. degree in physics cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She received a master’s degree in Mater ials Engineer ing, wi th a concent rat ion in econometrics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also attended the Darden Executive Development Program at the University of Virginia Graduate School of Business in 1996.