Board of Directors

Maria Pope is president, chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Portland General Electric.
As CEO, Pope leads PGE in delivering safe, affordable, and clean energy for Oregonians. Under her leadership, PGE is accelerating the transition to a clean energy future by adding significant amounts of renewable energy, hardening the grid through investments in transmission and distribution assets and technology, as well as collaborating with customers and policy makers to advance supportive energy policy.
Pope joined PGE in 2009 as chief financial officer and treasurer. She went on to oversee the company’s power generation facilities, wholesale power marketing and long-term resource strategy as senior vice president of Power Supply, Operations and Resource Strategy.
Prior to PGE, Pope was CFO of Mentor Graphics Corporation. She has also held senior operating and finance positions within the forest products and consumer products industries. Pope began her career in banking with Morgan Stanley.
Pope represents the electric industry on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. Her other board work includes the Edison Electric Institute, Electric Power Research Institute, the Oregon Business Council, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Portland branch.
Pope is an alumna of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and earned her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.








Dr. Lee Pelton is president and CEO of The Boston Foundation, a philanthropic organization with over $1 billion in assets. Before joining The Boston Foundation, Pelton served as president of Emerson College from 2011 to 2021. Prior to that, Pelton served as President of Willamette University from 1999 to 2011, dean and professor of English Literature at Dartmouth College from 1991 to 1998, and dean of students and later dean of Colgate University from 1986 to 1991.
Pelton has served on numerous educational and cultural boards and committees and was included in the Boston Business Journal’s 50 Most Powerful Leaders in Boston list.

Corporate Officers

Maria Pope is president, chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Portland General Electric.
Under her leadership, PGE is accelerating the transition to a clean energy future by adding significant amounts of renewables, hardening the grid through investments in transmission and distribution assets and technology, as well as collaborating with customers and policy makers to advance supportive energy policy.

Benjamin (Ben) Felton leads PGE’s utility operations groups, including generation, distribution, engineering, project management, environmental, safety, and other operations-focused areas.
Felton joined PGE in 2023 and has more than 30 years of energy industry experience. He has held a variety of senior leadership positions including as senior vice president of Energy Supply at DTE, leading Electric Operations and Power Delivery at NIPSCO a subsidiary of NiSource, and Electric Systems Operations and Maintenance at Consumers Energy.

Larry Bekkedahl is responsible for advancing PGE’s strategy to build the grid of the future — one that is resilient, smart, and clean.
He oversees PGE’s strategic system architecture and system upgrades, which include initiatives related to system integration and operations, enabling distributed energy resources, energy storage, dispatchable standby generation, and transmission system planning.

Angelica Espinosa is responsible for PGE's legal affairs activities.
She joined PGE in 2021 as Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary with a focus on board governance, power operations structuring and origination. Espinosa has over 18 years of legal and risk management experience in the utility and energy industries. Before joining PGE, she held leadership positions at Sempra Energy and General Electric.

Joe Trpik leads PGE’s accounting, finance, tax and investor relations efforts.
Trpik joined PGE in 2023 with deep expertise in financial planning and analysis, capital allocation, cost management, risk management, financial systems, accounting, tax and investor communications, among other functions. Prior to joining PGE, he served over 20 years in senior leadership positions with Exelon - one of the nation’s largest utilities – including as senior vice president and chief accounting officer.

Nik Blosser is responsible for PGE’s public policy, communications, government affairs, and community impact.
Blosser has more than 20 years of business and policy experience. Prior to joining PGE in 2022, he served on the Biden-Harris presidential transition team and as chief of staff and Deputy Cabinet Secretary for the Office of Cabinet Affairs at the White House. Prior to that, he served Oregon Governor Kate Brown as her chief of staff.

John Kochavatr is responsible for the customer solutions, and information technology.
Prior to joining PGE in 2018, he was senior vice president and CIO at SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions. He held several CIO and global leadership roles at General Electric (GE) in the Infrastructure, Power, Aviation, Oil & Gas and Capital divisions.

Anne Mersereau is responsible for PGE developing, attracting, and retaining a diverse, inclusive and engaged workforce.
Mersereau joined the company in 2009 and became vice president in 2016. She has more than 25 years of human resources experience in the utility, insurance, and hospitality industries. Before joining PGE, she held leadership positions with Hilton Hotels and Marsh USA.

Brett Sims leads Portland General Electric’s Energy Supply teams. He oversees the company’s regulatory strategy and ensures that PGE has the energy resources needed to serve its Oregon customers.
Sims served as senior director of Strategy, Commercial and Regulatory Affairs. For more than 15 years, he served as director of Origination, Structuring & Resource Strategy, managing the company’s resource planning and acquisition efforts.
Board Committees
Independent Director | Audit and Risk Committee | Compensation, Culture and Talent Committee | Finance Committee | Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee | |
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Dawn L. Farrell | Independent Director | Finance Committee | Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee | ||
Mark B. Ganz | Independent Director | Audit and Risk Committee | Compensation, Culture and Talent Committee | ||
Marie Oh Huber | Independent Director | Compensation, Culture and Talent Committee | Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee | ||
Kathryn J. Jackson | Independent Director | Audit and Risk Committee | Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee | ||
Michael A. Lewis | Independent Director | Compensation, Culture and Talent Committee | Finance Committee | ||
Michael H. Millegan | Independent Director | Audit and Risk Committee | Finance Committee | ||
Dr. Lee Pelton | Independent Director | Audit and Risk Committee | Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee | ||
Patricia S. Pineda | Independent Director | Compensation, Culture and Talent Committee | Finance Committee | ||
Maria M. Pope | |||||
James P. Torgerson | Independent Director | Audit and Risk Committee | Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee |
Committee Charters
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Audit and Risk Committee
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Audit and Risk Committee 224.7 KB
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Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee
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Compensation, Culture and Talent Committee
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Finance Committee
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Finance Committee 132.3 KB
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Articles of Incorporation
Read PGE's Third Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation.Corporate Bylaws
Read PGE's Eleventh Amended and Restated Bylaws.Communications to the Board of Directors
Read PGE's process for handling communications to the Board of Directors and Board Committees.Corporate Governance Guidelines
Read the guidelines adopted by the Board of Directors to assist in the exercise of its responsibilities.Code of Business Ethics and Conduct
This Code of Business Ethics and Conduct (Code of Ethics), which has been approved by the Board of Directors, expresses the principles, policies and practices every director, officer and employee of Portland General Electric Company and its subsidiaries (PGE or the Company) should use when conducting the Company's business.Code of Ethics
On February 14, 2018, the Board of Directors adopted the Code of Ethics for Chief Executive and Senior Financial Officers, replacing in its entirety the PGE Accounting and Reporting Code of Ethics.Political Engagement Policy
Read PGE’s policy on political engagement.
Read PGE’s 2022 Annual Report on Political Contributions and Expenditures.