AltaGas Ltd., Calgary, has appointed Vern Yu as president and chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2023. Yu will also join AltaGas' board of directors at the same time. Yu succeeds Randy Crawford, who had led the company for more than 4 years.
Yu joins AltaGas after a three-decade career at Enbridge Inc. where he most recently served as executive vice-president, corporate development, chief financial officer, and president, new energy technologies. During his time at Enbridge, he held various roles of increasing responsibility across the company, including its utilities and midstream segments with experience across Canadian and US operations, including as executive vice-president and president, liquids pipelines and prior to that as executive-vice president and chief development officer.