Investors

Eric W. Thornburg Eric W. Thornburg

Chairman
Director since 2006
Eric W. Thornburg is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Prior to his appointment in March 2006, Mr. Thornburg served as President of Missouri-American Water, a subsidiary of American Water Works Corporation, from 2000 to 2004. From July 2004 to January 2006, he also served as Central Region Vice President-External Affairs for American Water.

 

 

David A. Lentini

Lead Director
Director since 2001
David A. Lentini is the Connecticut Regional President for Berkshire Hills Bank. He presently serves on the Board of Cooper-Atkins Corporation. He is a Director of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the The Renbrook School. Mr. Lentini is a retired Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

David A. Lentini

 

 

Mary Ann Hanley

Director since 1999
Mary Ann Hanley is Assistant to the President of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center and Director of The Valencia Society, the endowment fund for the hospital. She is the Governor’s policy advisor for workforce development. From January 1995 to February 1998, she was legal counsel to the Governor’s Office, State of Connecticut.

 

 

Heather Hunt

Director since 2006
Heather Hunt is Executive Director of the New England States’ Committee on Electricity since January 2009. She is also an attorney with a regulatory law practice in Stratford, Connecticut. Previously, Ms. Hunt was Director of State and Local Government Affairs at United Technologies Corporation from January 2001 to September 2003. From June 1998 through December 2000, she was with the Southern Connecticut Gas Company in regulatory and public policy capacities, ultimately as Vice President. In addition, she served as a Commissioner of the Maine Public Utility Commission from October 1995 through May 1998 and as a Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control from October 1993 through July 1995.

 

 

Mark G. Kachur

Director since 2002
Mark G. Kachur served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CUNO, Inc. (filter manufacturer) from November 1999 until his retirement in 2006.

 

 

Arthur C. Reeds

Director since 1999
Arthur C. Reeds is a Trustee of USAllianz Variable Insurance Products Trust, a mutual fund group affiliated with Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America. He was Senior Investment Officer of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving September 2000 until January 2003. From August 1999 to March 2000, he served as the CEO and as a Director of Conning Corporation, an investment banking firm. He was the Chief Investment Officer at Cigna Corporation until his retirement from Cigna in November 1997.

 

 

Lisa Thibdaue

Director since 2000
Lisa J. Thibdaue was named the Vice President, Rates, Regulatory Affairs and Compliance at Northeast Utilities in January 1998 and has served as Vice President, Regulatory and Governmental Affairs at Northeast Utilities since 2005. From 1996 to 1997, she was Executive Director, Rates and Regulatory Affairs at Consumers Energy, a natural gas and electric utility located in Michigan. She is also on the Advisory Board of Michigan State University Institute of Public Utilities.

 

 

Carol P. Wallace

Director since 2003
Carol P. Wallace is Chairman of Cooper-Atkins Corporation, a manufacturer of temperature acquisition instruments, and has served in that capacity since 2004 in addition to serving as its President and Chief Executive Officer since 1994. She is also a director of Zygo Corporation and Sandstone Group, LLC, Milwaukee, WI, and she serves as President of the Connecticut Technical High School System Foundation Board, and is a director of the Connecticut Development Authority.

 

 

Communications with Directors

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Officers

 

Eric W. Thornburg

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

 

Judy E. Wallingford

President, The Maine Water Company

 

David C. Benoit

Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

Kristen A. Johnson

Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Secretary

 

Terrance P. O’Neill

Vice President, Service Delivery

 

Maureen P. Westbrook

Vice President, Customer and Regulatory Affairs

 

Peter J. Bancroft

Assistant Treasurer and Director Rates – Forecasting

 

Nicholas A. Rinaldi

Controller