Topazi to be roasted at MPAEF benefit
Mississippi Power CEO Anthony Topazi is the honoree for the 2008 Celebrity Roast to benefit the Mississippi Press Association Education Foundation. The event will serve as the kick-off for the 2007 Mid-Winter Conference next month in Jackson.
Previously, Topazi was executive vice president at Southern Company Generation & Energy Marketing, responsible for Southern Company’s energy trading and wholesale marketing. He began his career with Alabama Power in 1969 as a cooperative education student engineer.
Perspective Editor Sid Salter, a past MPA president and one-time roast honoree, will once again service as roastmaster.
Other past honorees include Gov. Haley Barbour, Sen. Trent Lott and Ole Miss Chancellor Robert Khayat.
Tickets are $80 and tables of eight are $575. Both are available by calling the MPA, 601-981-3060.