Bertrand Valdman, President and CEO of NorthStar Energy
Jerry Divoky, Senior Managing Director for BCI’s Infrastructure team
Adam Friedrichsen, Director at OMERS Infrastructure
Christine Gregoire, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Challenge Seattle
Julia Hamm, former President and CEO of the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)
Grant Hodgkins, Portfolio Manager, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation
Tom King, Operating Executive, AEA Investors
Mary E. Kipp, President and CEO of Puget Sound Energy
Paul McMillan, Principal of Tidal Shift Capital Incorporated
Christopher Parker, Director at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’)
Aaron Rubin, Executive Director of Puget Sound Health Alliance
Steven Zucchet, Managing Director, OMERS Infrastructure Management Inc.
Bertrand Valdman, Chairperson
Bertrand (Bert) Valdman, president and CEO of NorthStar Energy, serves on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy.
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His extensive utility industry experience includes leadership roles at Optimum Energy and Edison International. Previously at Puget Sound Energy, he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer (2007-2011) and chief financial officer (2003-2007). Bert began his career in investment banking at JPMorgan in New York and Paris and holds degrees from Northwestern and Stanford universities.
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Jerry Divoky
Jerry Divoky, senior managing director for BCI’s Infrastructure team, serves on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy.
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Divoky has more than 30 years’ experience in finance. He joined BCI in 2004 and has served as a board member across a number of BCI’s regulated assets globally, including Endeavour Energy, Transelec, Czech Gas Networks, Thames Water and National Gas Grid.
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Adam Friedrichsen
Adam Friedrichsen, director at OMERS Infrastructure, serves as a director on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy.
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Adam is responsible for the origination, execution and management of OMERS infrastructure investments in North America and Europe. He currently sits on the asset management team for and board of Kenter-Groendus, a Netherlands-based energy infrastructure business, and has previously served as a director on the boards of Ellevio, NextBridge and Scotia Gas Networks.
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Christine Gregoire
Christine Gregoire is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Challenge Seattle, an alliance of CEOs from 21 of the region’s largest private-sector employers and serves on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy.
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Previously, Gregoire served two terms as governor of the state of Washington from 2005 to 2013. Prior to becoming governor, she served three terms as attorney general for the state and before that role, served four years as the director of the State Department of Ecology.
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Julia Hamm
Julia Hamm, former president and CEO of the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA).
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She is the former president and CEO of the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) and currently serves on the board of Voltera, the board of the California Mobility Center, the board of RE+ Events, and as an advisor to EQT Group and The Ad Hoc Group.
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Grant Hodgkins
Grant Hodgkins is a Portfolio Manager for the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation’s Infrastructure and Renewable Resources Group and serves on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy.
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Prior to joining BCI in 2017, Hodgkins held positions at FortisBC and Interfor Corporation. He also serves on the board of Corix Infrastructure Inc., a water and wastewater utility and contract energy company based in Vancouver, BC.
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Tom King
Tom King, operating executive with AEA Investors, a middle market private equity firm, serves on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy.
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King served as chairman and president of National Grid U.S. from 2007-2015. Prior to that, he was president of PG&E Corporation and Chairman & CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric from 2003-2007.
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Mary E. Kipp
Mary E. Kipp serves as president and CEO of Puget Sound Energy. Under Mary’s leadership, PSE is undergoing the most significant transformation in its history, striving to meet Washington state’s clean energy laws — some of the most ambitious in the nation — while meeting customer expectations for the safe and reliable delivery of energy.
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Before joining PSE, Mary served as CEO of El Paso Electric (EPE) since 2015 and president since 2014. During her tenure at EPE, which began in 2007, she held leadership roles throughout the company, including as general counsel, in regulatory and rates, risk management, human resources, external affairs, customer care, environmental and safety.
Prior to EPE, Mary was a prosecuting attorney for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for four years, investigating and prosecuting violations of federal energy laws. Mary also worked as a lawyer at El Paso Natural Gas Company and at Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Mary is a member of the Board of Directors and the Sustainability and Audit Committees of Boston Properties. She is also a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of Hawaiian Electric Company. Mary serves as co-chair of the Edison Electric Institute's CEO Wildfire Task Force and is past co-chair of its Institute for Electric Innovation. She is a founding member of Technosylva's Customer Advisory Board. She is a past Deputy Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, former chair of Smart Electric Power Alliance and former vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Alliance to Save Energy.
Mary earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College, a Juris Doctor degree from The University of Texas School of Law, and is an alumnus of Exeter College, Oxford University.
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Paul McMillan
Paul McMillan, principal of Tidal Shift Capital Incorporated, an energy and infrastructure consulting and project development firm, serves on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy.
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McMillan has been involved in energy and infrastructure development for more than 30 years. Prior to establishing Tidal Shift Capital, he held senior business development and operations roles with the EPCOR, Union Energy and Westcoast Energy group of companies. McMillan also serves on the board of directors of BluEarth Renewables Inc.
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Christopher Parker
Chris Parker, director at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’), serves on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy.
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Parker is a member of Ontario Teachers’ North America Infrastructure team where he focuses origination, execution and management of infrastructure investments. He joined Ontario Teachers' in 2011 and has sat on the boards of Northern Star Generation, Intergen, Express Pipeline, Ontario Teachers' New Zealand Forest Investments and Sydney Desalination Plant. He currently sits on the board of Chicago Skyway. Prior to joining Ontario Teachers', Chris worked on power and utility investments at Brookfield Asset Management.
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Aaron Rubin
Aaron Rubin, senior managing director and head of energy infrastructure for Macquarie Asset Management—Real Assets, Americas, serves on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy.
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Rubin is responsible for Macquarie Asset Management’s Real Assets investment team that focuses on sustainable energy investments in the Americas. He has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure investment and M&A, including extensive experience investing in a wide variety of clean power generation and development businesses, regulated utilities and related sub-sectors. He is currently a director of Cyrq Energy, Cleco Corporation, and Lordstown Energy Center.
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Steven Zucchet
Steven Zucchet, managing director, OMERS Infrastructure Management, serves on the boards of Puget Sound Energy and Puget Energy.
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Zucchet has deep experience in the energy sector and, since joining OMERS in 2003, has led numerous transactions and had asset management responsibilities at a number of utility and generation companies in Canada and the United States. He is currently a board member of Oncor and Bruce Power Inc.
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