The Colorado Springs Utilities Board on Feb. 22 approved an offer of employment to Travas Deal to serve as CEO of the public power utility. Prior to this appointment, Deal served as the utility’s acting CEO.

He was named Chief Operations Officer in April 2020 in which he was responsible for the safe and reliable operations of the utility’s four services – electric, natural gas, water and wastewater.

Prior to joining Colorado Springs Utilities in 2017 as Field Services Manager, he worked at Duke Energy, in the transportation industry and served as a U.S. Marine for a decade.