Deal names one to board

W. Craig Barrs, Board of Economic Development

Barrs is executive vice president of External Affairs for Georgia Power. He currently serves on the boards of the University of Georgia Terry College of Business, the University of Georgia Research Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the Georgia Chamber Foundation. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program, the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Leadership Institute, Leadership Georgia and Leadership Athens. Barrs earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia. He and his wife, Annie, have two children. They reside in Atlanta.