NORTHWEST NATURAL HOLDING COMPANY (NWN)
Sector: Utilities
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Utilities
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Director information for NWN
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWN | Director | ["Chair"] | ["Governance","Finance"] | 2025 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
From 2005 to January 2009, Ms. Peverett served as President and Chief Executive Officer of British Columbia Transmission Corporation (BCTC), an electric utility in Vancouver, British Columbia. Between 2003 and 2005, she served as Chief Financial Officer of BCTC. Prior to joining BCTC, from 1988 through 2003, Ms. Peverett held various senior positions with Westcoast Energy Ltd., including serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of Union Gas Limited, a Westcoast Energy company, between 2001 and 2003. Ms. Peverett currently serves on the Boards of Directors of NW Natural, Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor) ((NYSE: SU)(TSX: SU)), Capital Power Corporation (TSX: CPX), and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (formerly Canadian Pacific Railway Limited) ((NYSE: CP)(TSX: CP)). She currently serves as a member of the Audit and Finance Committee of Canadian Pacific Kansas City, where she previously served as Chair, on the Audit and Health, Safety & Environment Committees of Capital Power, and on the Audit and Governance Committees of Suncor. Ms. Peverett additionally serves as Chair of the CSA Group (formerly the Canadian Standards Association). Ms. Peverett has also previously served on the Board of Directors of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) ((NYSE: CM)(TSX: CM)) from 2009 to 2023. She has also previously served on the boards of Hydro One Inc., AEGIS, Encana Corporation, Postmedia Network Canada Corp., BC Ferry Authority, BC Ferries Services, Inc. (BC Ferries), and the United Way of Lower Mainland, also serving as Chair of BC Ferry Authority, Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee at CIBC, and as Chair of the Audit Committee of Encana Corporation. Ms. Peverett earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Queen s University. She is a certified management accountant. Ms. Peverett s extensive senior management experience at Union Gas Limited of Chatham, Ontario, a natural gas distribution, storage and transmission company, and BCTC, the entity responsible for managing British Columbia s publicly-owned electrical transmission system, as well as her board experience at Capital Power Corporation, a North American power producer, Suncor, a global integrated energy company, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and NW Natural, and her prior board experiences at Hydro One Inc., one of North America s largest electricity delivery companies, AEGIS, Encana Corporation, Postmedia Network Canada Corp., and BC Ferries, position her to provide oversight of and advise management on a wide range of natural gas and energy industry strategic and regulatory matters. In addition, Ms. Peverett s other board experiences, including as Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee of Canadian Pacific Kansas City, member of the Audit and Governance Committees of Suncor, former Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee and Audit Committee of CIBC, former Chair of the Audit Committee of Encana Corporation, and a former Audit Committee member of Postmedia Network Canada Corp., enable her to provide effective oversight of management and insight into a wide variety of corporate governance, risk oversight, change management, and financial matters. Ms. Peverett s extensive knowledge of and training in finance and accounting matters has led the Board to determine that she is an audit committee financial expert as defined by the SEC rules. Her cumulative experience strengthens the Board s collective knowledge, capabilities and experience.