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   Gregory B. Butler

Headshot of Gregory Butler, Executive Vice President of Eversource EnergyExecutive Vice President & General Counsel
Eversource Energy

Gregory (Greg) B. Butler is executive vice president and general counsel of Eversource Energy. He is responsible for Legal, Corporate Governance, Federal Governmental Affairs, Internal Audit and Security, and Energy Supply. 

Greg serves as a member of the Board of Directors of numerous Eversource subsidiaries as well as the Eversource Energy Foundation. He also serves on the boards of the following: AdvanceCT, Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Hartford Healthcare, the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, United Way of Connecticut, New England Council, Goodwin University as well as the advisory board of the Tagliatela School of Business.He is a member of the Connecticut Ireland Business Council, Energy Bar Association and is a senior fellow of The American Leadership Forum.  

Greg has been awarded the Good Scout Award by the Boy Scouts of America and was named a Lawyer of Distinction by In-House Counsel magazine as well as Distinguished Alumni by Onondaga Community College and Albany Law School. He is a member of Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame and was named the Humanitarian of the Year by the Greater Waterbury NAACP.  In 1999, Greg was appointed by Governor John Rowland to the Connecticut Board of Parole and served on the board until 2005.

Greg served on transition teams for Governor-elects Dannel P. Malloy and Ned Lamont. He formerly served as chairman of the Madison County (NY) Republican Party and has played roles in numerous political campaigns at state, local and national levels. Prior to joining Eversource, Greg was an executive with New England Electric System and Niagara Mohawk; a senior attorney in the United States Justice Department and associate counsel to the New York State Assembly Republicans. 

A native of Cazenovia, New York, Greg earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1980 and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the Albany Law School of Union University in 1988. He is admitted to the practice of law in New York and to the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Greg and his wife, the former Connecticut House Republican Leader Themis Klarides, live in Woodbridge, Connecticut. Greg has two grown daughters, Reverend Elizabeth Butler Arulampalam and Sarah Butler Wasmund.