Corporate Governance

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. 

Dawn Farrell is a member of PGE’s Finance Committee and Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee. She has been an independent director since 2022.

Farrell has more than 37 years of energy experience. She is the current CEO and President of Trans Mountain Corporation and was most recently the President and CEO of TransAlta Corporation since 2012, before retiring in March 2021. Prior to her role as President and CEO, she held a variety of executive leadership positions in TransAlta and British Columbia Hydro & Power Authority (BC Hydro) including leading the commercial operations and development at TransAlta and generation and engineering at BC Hydro.

Farrell holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Arts in Economics, both from the University of Calgary. She attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.

Farrell serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of The Chemours Company. She also serves as a member of the Trilateral Commission and is the Chancellor of Mount Royal University. Ms. Farrell has held past board positions including the Business Council of Canada, the Alberta Business Council and CNRL.

Mark Ganz is a member of PGE's Audit and Risk Committee and the Compensation, Culture and Talent Committee. He has been an independent director since 2006.

Ganz is the founder and managing principal of Lion Creek Partners, LLC. He served from 2003 until his retirement in 2020 as president and CEO of Cambia Health Solutions, Inc., a parent corporation of several companies offering healthcare products and services. Previously, Mr. Ganz held a number of positions with Cambia, including president and CEO of Regence BlueCross of Oregon, chief legal officer, corporate secretary, and chief ethics and compliance officer; he also had responsibility for federal public policy.

Mr. Ganz was a member of Cambia’s board of directors until his retirement in 2020. He is currently on the Board of Regents at University of Portland and at Georgetown University; he is Immediate Past Chair of Cascade Pacific Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and he is a member of the board at Coalition to Transform Advanced Illness Care. He is also a member of the fiduciary board of Digbi Health and on the advisory boards of Innoneo, a Boston-based healthcare company, and Innovaccer, a San Francisco-based digital healthcare company.

He earned his bachelor’s degrees in history and theology and his J.D. degree from Georgetown University.

Marie Oh Huber is a member of PGE’s Compensation, Culture and Talent Committee and Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee. She has been an independent director since 2019.

Huber has over 25 years of experience of strategic business, legal and public policy experience in global Fortune 500 companies. She heads the global legal and government relations and public policy functions for eBay, Inc., where she serves as senior vice president, chief legal officer, general counsel and secretary.

Previously, Ms. Huber was responsible for communications, regulatory affairs and quality assurance, government affairs and philanthropy at Agilent Technologies. She joined eBay in 2015 from Agilent, where she served as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary since 2009. For the previous ten years, she held positions of increasing responsibility at Agilent and prior to that, at HP. Her career started at large law firms in New York and San Francisco.

Huber is currently on the board of Adevinta. She serves on the University Council of Yale University and is on the Law Board at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University and J.D. degree from Northwestern Pritzker University School of Law.

Dr. Kathryn Jackson is the chair of PGE’s Audit and Risk Committee and a member of the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee. She has been an independent director since 2014.

Jackson is a senior advisor at Energy Impact Partners. From 2016 – 2021 she served as the director of Energy and Technology Consulting at KeySource, Inc., where she provided strategic consulting services to clients in business growth, technology development and energy services. From 2014 to 2015, Dr. Jackson was chief technology officer and senior vice president at RTI International Metals, Inc., a leading U.S. producer of titanium mill products. She served as chief technology officer and senior vice president of Research and Technology at Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC, from 2009 to 2014; she served as vice president of Strategy, Research and Technology from 2008 to 2009. Prior to joining Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC, Dr. Jackson served for 17 years at the Tennessee Valley Authority, where she held various executive positions including executive vice president of River System Operations and Environment, and was the corporate environmental officer.

Dr. Jackson is currently a member of the board of Cameco Corporation and the EQT Corporation. She also serves on advisory boards at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

She holds a doctorate and masters in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University, a master’s in industrial engineering management from the University of Pittsburgh, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Grove City College.

Michael Lewis is a member of PGE’s Compensation, Culture and Talent Committee and Chair of the Finance Committee. He has been an independent director since 2021.

Lewis is a retired senior executive with more than 35 years of experience in electric utility operations. Lewis served as interim president of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) from August to December 2020. During that time, he oversaw PG&E’s gas and electric operations including wildfire prevention and response efforts, grid resiliency initiatives, vegetation management programs and emergency preparedness. Prior to that, Lewis served as PG&E’s senior vice president of Electric Operations and vice president of Electric Distribution.

Before joining PG&E in 2018, Mr. Lewis held a number of senior executive positions at Duke Energy, including senior vice president and chief distribution officer from 2016 to 2018, with responsibility for distribution operations across six states, and senior vice president and chief transmission officer from 2015 to 2016. Before the Duke Energy and Progress Energy merger in 2012, Lewis was senior vice president of energy delivery for Progress Energy Florida, where he was responsible for hurricane preparedness and grid hardening initiatives.

Lewis is currently on the boards of Newpark Resources, Inc., Osmose Utilities Services, and serves as senior advisor for TRC Consulting, Engineering and Construction.

Lewis holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University. He attended both the Advanced Management Program at Duke University and an Executive Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.

Michael Millegan is a member of PGE’s Audit and Risk Committee and Finance Committee. He has been an independent director since 2019.

Millegan is the Founder and CEO of Millegan Advisory Group 3 LLC where he advises early-stage companies on strategy that drives technology innovation and shareholder value since 2018. Previously, he held a variety of executive leadership and management positions within Verizon, where he led large-scale and scope business units. As president of Verizon Global Wholesale Group, he was responsible for $11 billion in sales revenue, 13,000 employees and $1 billion in annual capital spending.

Millegan is on the board of Axis Capital Holdings, Wireless Telecom Group, Inc., the Virginia Mason Foundation and Network Wireless Solutions, and is a strategic advisor and investor in Windpact, Inc. and Vettd, Inc.

Millegan holds a bachelor’s degree and a MBA from Angelo State University.

Dr. Lee Pelton chairs PGE’s Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee. He has been an independent director since 2006.

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 May 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 also currently serves on the board and executive committee of Boston Chamber of Commerce and is board chair for Boston Arts Academy Foundation and the Boston Racial Equity Fund and trustee for the Barr Foundation Boston Municipal Research Bureau.

Pelton has served on numerous educational and cultural boards and committees, including the Board of Directors of the American Council on Education (past chair), the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Museum of African American History in Boston, and the Harvard University Board of Overseers. In 2020, he was recognized by the Boston Chamber of Commerce as a 2020 Distinguished Bostonian and included in the Boston Business Journal’s 50 Most Powerful Leaders in Boston list.

Pelton holds a doctorate in English from Harvard University and undergraduate degrees in English and psychology from Wichita State University.

Pat Pineda is Chair of PGE’s Compensation Culture and Talent Committee and a member of the Finance Committee. She has been an independent director since 2022.

Pineda has held diverse leadership roles in human resources, marketing, legal, communications, philanthropy and stakeholder relations. Prior to her retirement, Pat was the Group Vice President, Hispanic Business Strategy Group at Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Previously, Pat was the Group Vice President, National Philanthropy, and also Group Vice President, Corporate Communications/ Administration and General Counsel. Pat began her career at New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc., where she held leadership positions in Human Resources, Legal, and Government and Environmental Affairs.

Pineda received her Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California in Berkeley, CA; her Bachelor of Arts in Government from Mills College in Oakland, CA, and has participated in executive education programs at Wharton School of Business and Stanford Business School. She is fluent in both Spanish and English.

Pineda is the founder and Chair emeritus of The Latino Corporate Directors Association, and currently sits on the board of EarthJustice. She is currently a board member at Levi Strauss & Co, Frontier Group Holdings, Inc., and Omnicom Group.

Since 2023, Jim Torgerson has served as Chair of the PGE Board. He is also a member of PGE’s Audit and Risk Committee and Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee. He has been an independent director since 2021.

From 2015 until his retirement in 2020, Torgerson served as CEO of AVANGRID, Inc., a sustainable energy company with approximately $30 billion in assets and operations in 24 states. Previously, he was president and CEO of UIL Holdings Corporation from 2006 to 2015, when it merged with Iberdrola USA to form AVANGRID. During his time at UIL Holdings, he oversaw its expansion from a regional electric utility to a diversified energy delivery company and one of the largest generators of wind electricity in the U.S., serving natural gas and electric utility customers across multiple states. Before joining UIL Holdings, he was president, CEO and director of the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. from 2000 to 2006. He also previously served as chief financial officer for several natural gas and electric utilities including Puget Sound Energy and Washington Energy Company. Before transitioning to the utility industry, he served as vice president of development for Diamond Shamrock Corporation, where he also held various finance and strategic planning positions.

Torgerson currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale-New Haven Health System.  He previously served as chair of the American Gas Association and was a director of Archaea Energy Inc. prior to its sale to BP Products North America, Inc. in December 2022.

Torgerson received a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from Cleveland State University.

Prior to his retirement, Torgerson served on the board and executive committee of the Edison Electric Institute and co-chaired its CEO Policy Committee on Reliability, Security and Business Continuity. He was also a member of the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council, which serves as the principal liaison between the federal government and the electric power industry on efforts to prepare for, and respond to, national-level disasters or threats to critical infrastructure.