Senior managing director at Blackstone, a global investment firm. Ms. Boyd has been a private equity investor in infrastructure businesses for nearly 15 years. Before joining Blackstone, she was at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, where she was involved with numerous transactions in the utility, energy, waste and transportation sectors. Currently, she serves as Board member at Safe Harbor Marinas LLC, an owner and operator of marinas and shipyards, and Audit Committee Chair and board member at Carrix Inc., a private global ports operator (since 2021). She also served as director at NIPSCO in 2024, a regulated utility subsidiary of NiSource Inc., and as director at Atlantic Power Transmission (from 2022 to 2023), a Blackstone Infrastructure Partners company focused on offshore wind power transmission. Ms. Boyd received her Bachelor of Arts in Science, Technology and Society from Stanford University, where she co-founded the Stanford Women in Business. She received her Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. At Blackstone, she oversees significant portfolio company investments which are asset- and people-intensive, with a strong focus on safety programs and oversight. Her board-level experience at regulated utilities coupled with her finance acumen provides valuable service to the FirstEnergy Board.