Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors is made up of members who volunteer their time to enhance the services UTC provides and are committed to delivering the best possible member benefit. All UTC Members are encouraged to participate in the committees and divisions of UTC. For information on each, please contact the staff liaison listed below the respective groups.
Current UTC Board Executive Committee Officers are:
CEO
Jimmy R. (Rusty) Williams
President and CEO – Ex Officio
rusty.williams@utc.org
202.833.6817
2024 – 2025 BOARD MEMBERS
- Lee Ayers, Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative, Inc. (At Large Director)
- Doug Barton, Southern Company (At Large Director)
- Enoch Charles Jr., CenterPoint Energy (At Large)
- Dewey Day, Pacific Gas & Electric Company (At Large Director)
- Gabriel Garcia, CPS Energy (Utilities Broadband Committee (UBC) Chair)
- Holly Henderson, Southern Company (Public Policy Division (PPD) Chair)
- Matt Holthe, Nebraska Public Power District (Technical Division Chair)
- Julie Leininger, Orlando Utilities Commission (UtiliSite Chair)
- John Nachilly, Eversource Energy (IT-OT Committee Chair)
- Travis Phifer, Tri-State G&T (Audit Committee Chair)
- Landon Roeder, Nashville Electric Service (Security Risk and Compliance (SRCC) Committee Chair)
- Robert Saddler, Lower Colorado River Authority (Membership Division Chair)
- Keisha Sauls, CenterPoint Energy (Knowledge & Learning Division Chair)
- Matt Schnell, Nebraska Public Power District (Leadership Advisory Committee (LAC) Chair)
- Michael Unser, Salt River Project (Telecom Committee Chair)
- Sheila Wells, Nashville Electric Service, Ret., Leidos (Chair’s Committee)
2024 – 2025 UTC INTERNATIONAL CHAIRS AND BOARD MEMBERS
- European UTC: Andreas Breuer, Westnetz GmbH
- UTC America Latina: Dymitr Wasjman
- At-Large Director: Tim Mackay, Hydro One (Canada)
2024 – 2025 UTC REGIONAL CHAIRS
- Regional Division Chair – Sue Hoffman, Southern Company
- Regional Vice-Chair – Vacant
- Region 1 (Interim) – Jason Wang, Eversource
- Region 2 – Marwan Madi, NYPA
- Region 3 – Justin Hardy, Southern Company
- Region 4 – Paul Zawada, AEP
- Region 5 – Michael Tate, Great River Energy
- Region 6 – Alex Porter, Ameren
- Region 7 – Keisha Sauls, CenterPoint
- Region 8 – Anthony Romero, Tri-State G&T
- Region 9 – Shawna Kiesbuy, Avista Corporation
- Region 10 – Khai Tran, SMUD
Leadership Advisory Committee
(Years Served as Chair)
- Jim Stahl (2003-2004)
- Ken Campbell (2004-2005)
- Leonard Leech (2005-2006)
- Joe Lackey (2006-2007)
- Jeff Selman (2007-2008)
- Rusty Williams (2008-2009)
- Jeff Katz (2009 – 2010)
- Troy West (2010 -2011)
- Ron Beck (2011-2012)
- Tom Perry (2012-2013)
- Mike Lowe (2013-2014)
- Jason Griffith (2014-2015)
- Ron Taylor (2015 – 2016)
- Matt Schnell (2016 – 2017)
- Kathy Nelson (2017-2018)
- Roger Bryant (2018 -2019)
- Greg Angst (2019-2021)
- Paul Lambert (2021-2022)
- Dewey Day (2022 – 2023)
- Kirt Mayson (2023 – 2024)
