About

Tonya L. Berry is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of CMS Energy and Consumers Energy, a position she has held since July 2025. She previously served as Senior Vice President from February 2022 to July 2025, and as Vice President from November 2018 to February 2022.

Berry joined Consumers Energy in 2015 as a member of the quality team. After briefly serving as manager of strategic initiatives with Massachusetts-based Energy Federation, Inc., she returned in 2017 to lead Consumers Energy's Lean Office and the company's adoption of the CE Way. She subsequently served as vice president of operations performance (2018-2020) and vice president of gas operations (from 2020), responsible for gas transmission, distribution, and the integrity of the company's gas system; in February 2022 she was named senior vice president of Transformation and Engineering. Berry has over 20 years of experience deploying Lean methodologies to enhance quality and improve work management within gas and electric groups, and prior to joining Consumers Energy she worked for Chrysler LLC in lean operations and industrial engineering.

Roles

Cms Energy Corp.
Executive Vice President and COO, CMS and Consumers · Current role
2025–present
CMS Energy / Consumers Energy
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer · Current role
7/2025 - Present
CMS Energy / Consumers Energy
Senior Vice President · Named senior vice president of Transformation and Engineering effective February 2022
2/2022 - 7/2025
Consumers Energy
Vice President · Vice President of operations performance (2018-2020); vice president of gas operations (from 2020)
11/2018 - 2/2022
Consumers Energy
Lean Office lead / CE Way adoption · Returned in 2017 to lead Consumers Energy's Lean Office
2017 -
Energy Federation, Inc.
Manager of strategic initiatives · Massachusetts-based; briefly held between Consumers Energy roles
Consumers Energy
Member of the quality team · Joined Consumers Energy in 2015
2015 -
Chrysler LLC
Lean operations and industrial engineering · Prior to joining Consumers Energy
Consumers Energy
Senior Vice President, Transformation and Engineering
2022-2025
Consumers Energy
Vice President of Operations Performance
2018-2022

Also at Cms Energy Corp.

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