SJW CORP filed this DEF 14A on 03/10/2020
SJW GROUP - DEF 14A - 20200310 - NAME_AND_TITLE
Carol P. Wallace
 
Position with the Corporation: Director
 
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Business Experience
 
Ms. Wallace has been a director since 2019. Prior to that, she served as a director of CTWS since 2003, serving as Chairman since 2017 and as Lead Independent Director from 2012 until 2017. She has 24 years of experience from 1994 until 2018 as the Chief Executive Officer of Cooper-Atkins Corporation and as an employee from 1991, a manufacturer of temperature acquisition instruments prior to its new ownership. Ms. Wallace currently serves as a director of Sandstone Group, LLC since 2012. She served as a Board member of Middlesex Hospital, Middletown, Connecticut from 2013 until February 2018. Ms. Wallace served as a director of Zygo Corporation from 2005 until June 2014. Ms. Wallace received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Middlebury College.
 
 
 
 
Age: 65
 
Committees
Director Since: 2019
 
l Finance Committee
 
 
 
l Sustainability Committee
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Key Experience, Qualifications, Attributes and Skills
The principal experience, qualifications and skills that Ms. Wallace brings to the Board of Directors contribute to the Board's oversight of the Corporation's executive leadership development, strategic planning, and customer and employee relations. In addition to the items listed in the biographical data above, such experience, qualifications and skills may be summarized as follows:
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Served as CEO of Cooper-Atkins Corporation, a technology company that had $50M in annual sales, and had overall responsibility for all financial activity, audit, executive compensation, real estate, governance, management risk assessment, IT and strategic initiatives
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Experience with executing acquisitions
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Familiarity with and knowledge of regulatory activity related to the water industry
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Past Chair of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association
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Experience interacting with government officials at the state level