Ms. Ranich is a former director at Deloitte Consulting, LLP, where she led the firm’s Energy and Sustainability Investment Advisory Services for public sector clients, providing counsel on more than $1 billion of investments. Her practice focused on strategic energy investments designed to mitigate and manage risks related to energy supply, demand and climate change issues. Preceding her position at Deloitte, Ms. Ranich worked at PSG International, where she was a member of the management team leading negotiations to implement the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline, a multi-billion dollar, 1,700-kilometer pipeline project transporting natural gas from Turkmenistan to Turkey. She was previously a Vice President at Michael Baker Corporation, an international engineering, energy and environmental services firm. While at Baker, she held executive responsibility for delivering energy and environmental engineering services in Europe, Russia and the Caspian region, overseeing projects with a construction value in excess of $40 billion. She managed offices in London, Naples, Wiesbaden and Moscow. Ms. Ranich served as a member of the Board of Directors of Questar Corporation from 2013 to 2016, when Questar was acquired by Dominion Resources, Inc. At Questar she was Chair of the Board’s Governance and Nominating Committee. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of Cardno Limited, an Australian infrastructure and environmental services company, and a former member of the Supervisory Board at Uniper SE, a German power generation and energy supply chain corporation. She serves as Chair of the Board of the GTI Energy and Chair of its Investment Committee, and she is an advisory board member of Yet Analytics, an xAPI data analytics platform. In addition to being an investor in and advisor to emerging technology companies, Ms. Ranich is a member of the Technology Commercialization Panel for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Ms. Ranich has been a Company director since 2016.
Ms. Ranich’s wealth of experience and formidable skills in strategic energy investments, project development, risk management and corporate governance contribute significantly to the Board. With her work on sustainable environmental practices and extensive global industry experience, including first-hand involvement in high-risk environments and largescale projects designed to effect significant advancements in the delivery of energy, Ms. Ranich complements the diverse backgrounds on the Board, adds a keen understanding of risk, particularly related to the ongoing energy transition, and provides a unique global perspective. Ms. Ranich also brings to the Board her prior experience as chair of a public company corporate governance committee, and a successful track record of establishing, building and leading energy-focused businesses.