Bentina C. Terry

These Southern Company subsidiaries provide mission critical LTE wireless and dark fiber networks and services to Southern Company electric utilities and to external customers. Terry came to Southern Linc and Southern Telecom from Georgia Power where she served as senior vice president of Customer Strategy and Solutions. She joined Georgia Power in 2001 and during her career, held roles of increasing responsibility in External Affairs, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, Community and Economic Development, Corporate Communication, Sales and Marketing, Customer Service, Compliance and Ethics, Corporate Services and Power Delivery at Gulf Power (now Florida Power & Light), Georgia Power and Southern Nuclear, where she served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.

Prior to Southern Company, Terry supported Georgia Power and Southern Company at Troutman Sanders (now Troutman Pepper) as a labor and employment lawyer. She also served as the Associate General Counsel at Progress Energy (now Duke Energy) in Raleigh, NC.

In the community, she serves on the board of directors for CTIA, International Women's Forum (IWF) Georgia and most recently the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA). Terry is the immediate past chair of Leadership Atlanta and vice chair of The NC State University Foundation, Inc. Board.

For several consecutive years, she has been selected as one of Atlanta Magazine's 500 Most Influential Atlantans, one of Atlanta Business League's 100 Most Influential Women and one of the National Diversity Council's 100 Most Influential Women in Energy. In 2024, Terry was named as a Women of Influence by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. In 2022, she was a United Negro College Fund's Billy Suber Aaron Award honoree and in 2020, she was named one of the Greater Atlanta YWCA's Women of Achievement.

She is a member of the North Carolina State Bar and the Georgia State Bar, The Executive Leadership Council (ELC), Leadership Atlanta, Leadership North Carolina, Leadership Florida, International Women's Forum (IWF), Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and The Links, Incorporated.

She has received various awards and recognitions for her contribution to the state of Florida including being named one of Influence Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in Florida Politics (2015). She was also an IWF Fellow in 2012 and a 2017 graduate of the Atlanta Regional Commission's Regional Leadership Institute.