Nora Brownell

Ms. Brownell is an accomplished executive and entrepreneur. Since 2009, Ms. Brownell has served as a co-founder and principal of Espy Energy Solutions LLC, an energy consulting group that provides strategic planning, marketing, business planning, and other consulting services to energy utilities, equipment manufacturers, service providers and financial institutions evaluating energy investments.

Ms. Brownell is also currently a director of the Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Advisory Board, where she has served since June 2014 and of Mead Family Investments (previously Times Publishing Co.), where she has served since 1996. Ms. Brownell is a former Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission where she served a term from May 2001 to June 2006, and a former member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission where she served from 1997 until 2001. Ms. Brownell’s prior public company board service includes: PG&E Corporation from April 2019 until June 2020, where she served as Chair of the board of directors; National Grid PLC from June 2012 until April 2019 where she served on the Remunerations, Nominations, Safety and Environment and Health committees; and Spectra Energy Partners, LP from May 2007 until November 2018, where she served on the Audit and Conflicts committees.

Ms. Brownell attended Syracuse University.