Iris Griffin

About Iris

• I grew up in Bennettsville, a small, rural town in South Carolina.
• I earned my bachelor’s degree in accounting through the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina with a goal of ultimately becoming a partner in a large accounting firm.
• After graduating, I spent a couple of years working for a large accounting firm.
• As I gained experience, I realized public accounting wasn’t a great fit for me, so I got a job in internal audit for SCANA Corporation, a utility company in Columbia, South Carolina.
• I initially thought that working in utilities might be boring, but I ended up loving it—I stayed with the company and have moved up through the ranks, working in spaces like audit and treasury.
• SCANA was eventually acquired by Dominion Energy, through which I stayed on and worked as the vice president of finance and integration.
• I’ve since moved into operations and now work as the vice president of power generation in South Carolina—I’m actually the first woman to hold this position for the company!