Corporate Governance

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.