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Dennis was appointed to the position of CEO of AVANGRID in July 2020. With more than 25 years in the energy sector, Dennis joined AVANGRID from Sempra Energy where he was Executive Vice President and Group President and Chief Sustainability Officer. Throughout his career, Dennis has held a variety of leadership positions in gas and electric utilities as well as renewables, including Chairman and CEO of Southern California Gas Co., and Chief Financial Officer of SunPower Corp., San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas Co. Dennis holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University. Dennis is on the boards of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Auto Club Enterprises and recently served as Chairman of the Board for the California Latino Economic Institute. He previously served as Chairman of the California Business Roundtable and on the board of the United Way - Greater Los Angeles. Dennis has been named one of the “100 Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Business magazine.

Kevin Payne is a Board Member at SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO and is based in Rosemead, California. He has worked as VP:Client Svcs Planning & Controls at SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO, VP:Enterprise & Resource Planning at SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO, and VP:Engineering at SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO. Kevin studied at UCLA and University of California between 1980 and 1983.

John Hairston is Executive Vice President, Internal Business Services (Acting) @ Bonneville Power Administration.

McHugh previously served as senior vice president of wholesale trading. In this role, he was responsible for wholesale trading and portfolio management of Exelon’s generation, load, transactions and contracted assets. The group is responsible for optimizing the value of the company’s national portfolio through its trading decisions in the power, natural gas, and environmental products markets. Before that, McHugh was senior vice president, portfolio management and strategy. In that role, he was responsible for fundamental analytics and commodity price forecasting, the portfolio management hedging strategy for the company’s integrated generation and load portfolios, pricing and structuring of complex transactions, product management, transmission analytics, quantitative analytics, and wholesale/retail integration. Prior to the merger with Constellation, he was the director of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regional trading desks for the Exelon Power Team. Prior to that, he held various positions in the Power Team including director of portfolio management and manager of the proprietary trading book. Prior to joining Power Team, he worked for five years at Conectiv Energy in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was the director of power trading for the company’s integrated power portfolio of generation assets and load positions in the PJM markets. He also worked at PJM Power Pool as an engineer in the scheduling and operations groups where he was responsible for analyzing PJM’s interchange limits and scheduling interchange transactions between PJM and neighboring control areas.