Strategic Security Policy Director
Southern Company

Michele L. Guido is the Strategic Security Policy Director at Southern Company, the parent company of Georgia Power, Alabama Power, Southern Nuclear, Mississippi Power and its subsidiaries. Michele has been employed at Southern Company since September 2004.

Michele has 30 years’ experience in crisis and consequence management, enterprise risk, business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency response for critical infrastructure. Prior to joining Southern Company, Michele was employed at IBM, BellSouth, and Federated Systems Group. Michele has experience in all sides of the public-private ecosystem on national security, cybersecurity, physical security, natural disasters, and existential threats.

In current role, Michele provides high-level strategic and policy advice and expertise to Southern Company executives on aspects of national security, reliability, and resilience. Company and Industry lead for all hazard strategy(ies), effects and methodology(ies) development and implementation. Externally works and partners with electric industry, critical infrastructure owners and operators from various sectors/subsectors, government entities including the White House National Security Council, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Office of National Cyber Director (ONCD), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other agencies actively engaged on reliability and resilience relating to critical infrastructure.

Michele has a B.S. degree in Computer and Information Systems, an A.S. degree in Business Administration, both degrees from King’s College and graduate studies in Emergency in Preparedness and Planning from University of California at Berkeley. Michele received her certification as a Certified Business Continuity Professional in 1995 from the Disaster Recovery Institute International.