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As President and Chief Executive Officer of El Paso Electric, Ms. Tomblin brings more than 25 years of experience in the energy industry throughout the United States, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, and Latin America. She has experience in the generation, transmission, and distribution sectors as well as renewable development, energy services, and sales. Before joining El Paso Electric, Ms. Tomblin, a winner of the S&P Platts Global CEO of the Year award, served as Chief Executive Officer of INTREN, L.L.C., a utility service provider operating throughout the United States. Ms. Tomblin’s work experience also includes her role as President & Chief Executive Officer of Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), where she addressed the company’s floundering public image and rebuilt the company’s operations. Prior to JPS, she served as Vice President for GDF SUEZ/International Power, one of the world’s largest energy companies, and President of Pennsylvania Electric Company, a FirstEnergy Company. She started her career in energy as an attorney with K&L Gates, LLP and Pennsylvania Electric Company. Ms. Tomblin is a board member of The Borderplex Alliance; the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, and the Edison Electric Institute. She is also a member of the Advisory Council for Hunt Institute for Global Competitiveness; the Texas Tech President’s Development Council; and the Diversity Committee for Executive Forum. Ms. Tomblin has an MBA from New York University’s Leonard Stern School of Business and a Juris Doctorate and BS in Journalism with a public relations concentration from West Virginia University.

I have over 30 years of experience in electric utility business where I have focused on distribution engineering, construction operations, and customer service. I have played major roles in the large scale budgeting of both capital and maintenance work along with construction planning tools and managing to complete this work. I have participated and lead corporate level teams in the management of Safety, New Business, Transportation, Inventory, and Reliability processes. I have lead several large scale restoration efforts including those following hurricanes, ice storms, wind events, etc. I have managed the assessment process, dispatching, resource attainment and movement, restoration priority, and OMS. I have participated and lead Six Sigma improvement initiatives and earned my green belt. I am a Professional Engineer registered in the State of Virginia and I am a long standing Senior Member of the IEEE.

Richard Dick Johnson is a CFO and Manager of Finance and Administrative services at West River Electric Association and CEO/General Manager at West River Electric Association and is based in Wall, South Dakota. He has worked as Banking at First Fianancial Bank and State Bank of Eagle Butte and Assistant Manager at Moreau Grand Electric. Richard studied at NATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HOLDINGS INC. between 1980 and 1984.