Roger Woodworth is vice president for Avista Corp. and vice president of Customer Solutions for Avista Utilities. Previously, he was vice president of operations for Avista Utilities and vice president for corporate business development.

Woodworth received his Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife biology from Washington State University in 1978. He is also an alumnus of Columbia University’s Senior Executive Program.

Active in community and professional organizations, Woodworth chairs the President’s Advisory Council for Washington State University-Spokane and is a trustee of the WSU Foundation. He serves as vice chair of the Sirti Foundation in support of tech business incubation. Woodworth is vice chair of the Edison Electric Institute’s executive advisory council for customer services and is a board member and past chair of Northwest Gas Association. He is also a director on the board and past chair of Foundation Northwest, a nonprofit community foundation.

Woodworth began his career at Avista Corp. as a fish and wildlife biologist in 1979. He was later promoted to hydro license coordinator and then served as the administrator responsible for all facility licensing and related regulatory and resource management agency relations. In 1990, he was tapped to help facilitate corporate business planning and subsequently appointed strategic council to the company’s executive officer team. He remained in this role while managing the company’s corporate communications department starting in 1992. He was appointed as director of corporate development in May 1998 and vice president of corporate development in November of that same year.

Among other affiliations throughout his career, Woodworth served two terms as trustee of the Eastern Washington State Historical Society’s Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. He is a past president of the National Hydropower Association board of directors and was an active member of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Strategy Board. He has chaired EEI’s Biologists’ Task Force, worked closely with the Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee, and served as a technical advisor to the Northwest Power Planning Council concerning regional hydropower issues.