Corporate Governance

Maria Pope is president and chief executive officer of Portland General Electric.

As CEO, Pope leads PGE in delivering safe, reliable, affordable, and clean energy for Oregonians. Under her leadership, PGE is accelerating the transition to a clean energy future by adding significant amounts of renewable energy, hardening the grid through investments in transmission and distribution assets and technology, as well as collaborating with customers and policy makers to advance supportive energy policy.

Pope joined PGE in 2009 as chief financial officer and treasurer. She went on to oversee the company’s power generation facilities, wholesale power marketing and long-term resource strategy as senior vice president of Power Supply, Operations and Resource Strategy.

Prior to PGE, Pope was CFO of Mentor Graphics Corporation. She has also held senior operating and finance positions within the forest products and consumer products industries. Pope began her career in banking with Morgan Stanley.

Pope chairs the Oregon Business Council and the Edison Electric Institute. She is the past chair of the Electric Power Research Institute and served on the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board from 2021 to 2025.

Pope is an alumna of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and earned her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. 

Dawn Farrell has more than 39 years of energy experience. She is the current Chair of the Board of Trans Mountain Corporation after serving as its CEO and President for two years. Prior to that, she was President and CEO of TransAlta Corporation from 2012 to 2021. She has held a variety of executive leadership positions at TransAlta and British Columbia Hydro & Power Authority (BC Hydro). She currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of The Chemours Company as well as serves as a member of the Trilateral Commission and is the Chancellor of Mount Royal University.

Marie Oh Huber has over 30 years of experience of strategic business, legal, regulatory and public policy experience in large global public technology companies. Until 2024, she served as senior vice president and chief legal officer of eBay, Inc. She joined eBay in 2015 from Agilent Technologies, where she served as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary since 2009. She has strategic and operational experience across global technology, internet/e-commerce, consumer-facing, manufacturing and life sciences industries at scale in global Fortune 500 companies, including M&A, geopolitical, regulatory, risk management and oversight, finance and capital allocation, corporate governance and sustainability. She serves on the University Council of Yale University and is on the Law Board at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

Dr. Kathryn Jackson is a senior advisor at Energy Impact Partners. From 2016 to 2021 she served as the director of Energy and Technology Consulting at KeySource, Inc., where she provided strategic consulting services to clients in business growth, technology development and energy services. From 2014 to 2015, Dr. Jackson was chief technology officer and senior vice president at RTI International Metals, Inc. From 2009 to 2014 she served as chief technology officer and senior vice president of Research and Technology at Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC. Dr. Jackson is currently a member of the board of Cameco Corporation and the EQT Corporation. She also serves on advisory boards at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Swanson.

Michael Lewis has more than 35 years of experience in electric utility operations. Lewis served as interim president of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) from August to December 2020. During that time, he oversaw PG&E’s gas and electric operations including wildfire prevention and response efforts, grid resiliency initiatives, vegetation management programs and emergency preparedness. Mr. Lewis has held several senior executive positions at Duke Energy as well as Progress Energy Florida. He is currently on the boards of Newpark Resources, Inc., Kinross Gold Corporation, Osmose Utilities Services, and serves as senior advisor for TRC Consulting, Engineering and Construction.

Pat Pineda has held diverse leadership roles in human resources, marketing, legal, communications, philanthropy and stakeholder relations. Prior to her retirement, Pat was the Group Vice President, Hispanic Business Strategy at Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Previously, Pat was the Group Vice President, National Philanthropy, and also Group Vice President, Corporate Communications/ Administration and General Counsel. Pat began her career at New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc., where she held leadership positions in Human Resources, Legal, and Government and Environmental Affairs. Pineda is the founder and Chair emeritus of The Latino Corporate Directors Association, and currently sits on the boards of Frontier Group Holdings, Inc. and Omnicom Group.

John O’Leary has three decades of experience in the transportation and mobility sector. As the current President and Chief Executive Officer of Daimler Truck North America LLC, Mr. O’Leary has strong ties to the Portland, Oregon, business community. He has served in a variety of leadership roles at Daimler throughout his over 20-year tenure there, including Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for eight years, as well as serving as Chief Transformation Officer for Mercedes-Benz Trucks in Stuttgart, Germany. As CEO, Mr. O’Leary spearheads Daimler’s electrification and zero-emission technology initiatives in North America. Mr. O’Leary currently serves on the board of Daimler Truck Holding AG, the German parent company of Daimler Truck North America LLC, and is chairman of the board of Greenlane, a joint venture started by Daimler, BlackRock, and NextEra Energy to develop zero-emission infrastructure in the United States.