Constellation Announces Changes to Board of Directors
December 13 2024 - 7:08AM
Business Wire
Oppenheimer and Paterson bring financial,
operational expertise and tech insights as Brlas retires with
legacy of successful leadership
Constellation (Nasdaq: CEG), the nation’s largest producer of
reliable, emissions-free energy, announced today the appointment of
Peter Oppenheimer and Eileen Paterson to the Constellation board of
directors, while Laurie Brlas, a long-time independent director,
will retire from the company’s board effective Dec. 31. Oppenheimer
and Paterson will join the board effective December 16, 2024.
“Peter and Eileen bring a combination of strong financial
acuity, operational experience and business leadership expertise
that will help guide Constellation through this exciting period of
growth and innovation,” said Robert J. Lawless, chairman,
Constellation. “We are also deeply grateful to Laurie for her many
years of service to the board, including her strategic and
financial insight and guidance, which were instrumental in
Constellation’s performance since its successful spinoff in 2022.
Constellation’s board and management team greatly appreciate and
value her many contributions, professionalism and expertise.”
Oppenheimer has served on the board of directors at Goldman
Sachs since 2014 and chairs its Audit Committee. He also is the
chairman of the Goldman Sachs Bank USA subsidiary board. He
previously served as the chief financial officer of Apple from 2004
to 2014. During his leadership at Apple, the company experienced
significant growth and profitability while also launching some of
the most groundbreaking technology products in recent history,
including the iPhone and iPad. Prior to his role at Apple,
Oppenheimer was the divisional chief financial officer at ADP, the
payment processing company, and a consultant for Coopers &
Lybrand, which later became PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Former CEO of aerospace and defense manufacturer Aerojet
Rocketdyne, Paterson serves on the board of the integrated
downstream energy company Marathon Petroleum Corporation, where she
is on the Sustainability and Public Policy Committee and
Compensation and Organization Development Committee. She also
serves on the board of the manufacturer, and service provider of
control systems and control system components Woodward, Inc, where
she serves as the chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee
and is a member of the Human Capital and Compensation Committee.
Prior to Aerojet Rocketdyne, Paterson served as president of Pratt
& Whitney AeroPower’s auxiliary power unit and small turbojet
propulsion business within United Technologies Corporation. She
also held leadership roles at Ford Motor Company and Visteon
Corporation. Paterson is a U.S. Army veteran and served as an
active‐duty U.S. Army aviator.
Brlas has brought valuable financial and leadership experience,
along with a diverse perspective, to Constellation’s board through
her 16 years of experience as a chief financial officer at global,
capital-intensive companies. She also chaired Constellation’s Audit
& Risk Committee since its inception, helping to establish
governance as well as oversight of financial performance and
emerging risk.
For more information on Constellation’s board of directors,
please visit constellationenergy.com.
About Constellation
A Fortune 200 company headquartered in Baltimore, Constellation
Energy Corporation (Nasdaq: CEG) is the nation’s largest producer
of clean, emissions-free energy and a leading supplier of energy
products and services to businesses, homes, community aggregations
and public sector customers across the continental United States,
including three fourths of Fortune 100 companies. With annual
output that is nearly 90% carbon-free, our hydro, wind and solar
facilities paired with the nation’s largest nuclear fleet have the
generating capacity to power the equivalent of 16 million homes,
providing about 10% of the nation’s clean energy. We are further
accelerating the nation’s transition to a carbon-free future by
helping our customers reach their sustainability goals, setting our
own ambitious goal of achieving 100% carbon-free generation by
2040, and by investing in promising emerging technologies to
eliminate carbon emissions across all sectors of the economy.
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