Joined RVA757 Connects: 2021

Robert M. Blue is chair, president, and chief executive officer of Richmond-based Dominion Energy.

Blue became chair of the Dominion Energy board of directors in April 2021 and was named CEO and president in October 2020.

Before that, Blue was Dominion Energy’s executive vice president and co-chief operating officer, and president–Dominion Energy Virginia, the company’s vertically integrated electric utility in Virginia and North Carolina.

Blue joined Dominion Energy in 2005 and has held a succession of services and operational executive roles since his promotion to officer in 2007, including vice president-State and Federal Affairs; senior vice president–Public Policy and Corporate Communications; senior vice president–Regulation, Law, Energy Solutions, & Policy; and president–Dominion Virginia Power.

Prior to joining Dominion Energy, Blue served as counselor to the Governor and director of policy for Virginia Governor Mark Warner and as an attorney at Hogan & Hartson.

Blue serves on the boards of Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services (AEGIS) London and its parent company, AEGIS Limited. He is chair of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and is also a member of the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, the Greater Washington Partnership, RVA757 Connects, Sports Backers, Communities in Schools of Virginia, the Edison Electric Institute, and the Nuclear Energy Institute.

Blue is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale Law School. He also earned his master’s degree in business administration from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.