Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

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Item 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Executive Officers

Information regarding executive officers of PG&E Corporation and the Utility is set forth under “Executive Officers of the Registrants” at the end of Part I of the Original Filing.

Directors

Set forth below are the name and age of each of PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s current directors as of March 10, 2020, and the positions held by each director with PG&E Corporation and the Utility, each director’s principal occupation and business experience during the last five years, and the year of the commencement of each director’s term as a director. Additionally, for each director, included below is information regarding the specific experience, qualifications, attributes and skills that contributed to the decision of the Boards of Directors of PG&E Corporation and the Utility to nominate such director for election as a director at the 2019 annual meeting of shareholders or appoint such directors to a vacancy, as the case may be, and the names of other publicly held companies of which such director serves or has served as a director in the previous five years. There are no family relationships between any director of PG&E Corporation or the Utility, executive officer of PG&E Corporation or the Utility, or person nominated or chosen to become a director or executive officer of PG&E Corporation or the Utility.

NameAgeDirector SincePosition
Richard R. Barrera48April 2019Director
Jeffrey L. Bleich58April 2019Director
Nora Mead Brownell72April 2019Director
Cheryl F. Campbell60April 2019Director
Fred J. Fowler74March 2012Director
William D. Johnson66May 2019CEO and President of PG&E Corporation*
Michael J. Leffell61April 2019Director
Dominique Mielle51April 2019Director
Meridee A. Moore62April 2019Director
Eric D. Mullins57September 2016Director
Kristine M. Schmidt56April 2019Director
William L. Smith62October 2019Director
Andrew M. Vesey64August 2019CEO and President of the Utility**
Alejandro D. Wolff63April 2019Director
John M. Woolard54October 2019Director
*Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation and the Utility
**Board of Directors of the Utility only

Richard R. Barrera has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since April 2019. He is the Founder, CEO and Portfolio Manager at Roystone Capital Management LP (an asset management firm that invests across the capital structure in both debt and equity). Mr. Barrera was previously a Partner and Co-Portfolio Manager at Redwood Capital Management and Glenview Capital Management (both private investment management firms). Mr. Barrera is a member of the board of Mount Sinai Children’s Center Foundation and a member of the board of Success Academy Charter Schools.

Mr. Barrera has over 20 years of asset management and financial expertise investing in businesses undergoing transformations across a wide range of sectors. Throughout his career, Mr. Barrera has invested across the electric utility and independent power industries and has directly participated in numerous restructurings both in and out of Chapter 11. Mr. Barrera’s restructuring experience includes several bankruptcies involving complex litigation and a number of telecommunication restructurings in which he actively helped companies recapitalize balance sheets to enable successful operational turnarounds.

Jeffrey L. Bleich has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since April 2019 and is the Utility Board’s independent non-executive Chair. Mr. Bleich is an attorney and serves as Court-appointed Special Master, and mediator for the United States District Courts. Mr. Bleich was a partner in the San Francisco, CA office of Dentons US LLP (a multinational law firm) from 2016 to April 2019 specializing in cybersecurity, technology, and complex disputes. Mr. Bleich served as a member of the Senior Advisory Group to the Director of National Intelligence from 2014 to 2016. Mr. Bleich served as U.S. Ambassador to Australia from 2009 to 2013 and also as Special Counsel to President Obama in the White House from 2008 to 2009. Mr. Bleich previously was a long-time partner at the California law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, where he was recognized as one of California’s leading lawyers, litigating a variety of complex civil cases and landmark state and U.S. Supreme Court pro bono cases. Mr. Bleich is a member of the board of Nuix Pty. Ltd (from 2017 to present). Mr. Bleich serves on several non-profit boards, including as Chair of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (appointed by President Obama), and the Jeff Bleich Centre on Digital Technology, Security, and Governance at Flinders University.

Mr. Bleich has over three decades of experience resolving complex domestic and international disputes and specializing in cybersecurity. In addition to his legal and public sector experience, Mr. Bleich has led the boards of numerous public and private organizations, including as the Chair of the California State University Board of Trustees, President of the California State Bar, Chair of the ABA’s Amicus Curiae Committee, Director of the White House Commission on Youth Violence, President of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and a member of the Governor’s International Trade and Investment Council. Mr. Bleich is a long-time California resident.

Nora Mead Brownell has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since April 2019 and is the Corporation Board’s independent non-executive Chair. Ms. Brownell is the Co-Founder 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). She served as a member of the boards of National Grid (2012 to April 2019) and of Spectra Energy Partners (2007 to 2018). Ms. Brownell previously also served on the boards of Tangent (2000 to April 2019) and Converge Inc. (2007 to 2014), and of Oncor, Inc. (2007 to 2014). Ms. Brownell is currently serving on the Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Advisory Board and as a director of Mead Family Investments (previously Times Publishing Co.) (1996 to present), and she previously served as a member of the Direct Energy Advisory Board (2014 to 2017) and of New World Capital Strategic Advisory Council (2011 to 2016).

Ms. Brownell is a former Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), a former member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and a former President of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. During her time at FERC, Ms. Brownell oversaw the transition of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation to FERC oversight after Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which provided for mandatory electric reliability standards. Ms. Brownell has been an advocate for consumer protection, competitive markets and national energy infrastructure development. She has worked extensively with California stakeholders to resolve market and infrastructure issues.

Cheryl F. Campbell has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since April 2019. She is currently a consultant, providing safety and leadership consulting in the utility and energy industries. Ms. Campbell spent 13 years at Xcel Energy, Inc. (utility supplier of electric power and natural gas service operating in eight Western and Midwestern states), most recently serving as the Senior Vice President, Gas and President and CEO of West Gas Interstate (a FERC-regulated pipeline owned by Xcel Energy) from 2011 to 2018. Prior to Xcel Energy Inc., Ms. Campbell worked for approximately 20 years at Coastal Corporation (El Paso Corporation) (provider of natural gas and related energy products) where she held various roles, including director. Ms. Campbell currently serves as a board member of Hoffman Southwest (a private equity-owned provider of water flow inspection, repair and cleaning services company) (2018 to present), board member and Vice Chair of Gold Shovel Association (February 2020 to present), and a member of the advisory board of JANA technologies (January 2020 to present). Ms. Campbell previously served as a member of the Engineering Advisory Committee of the University of Colorado College of Engineering, a member of the Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee to the Department of Transportation and a member of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association Board. Ms. Campbell is an NACD Governance Fellow.

Ms. Campbell has 35 years of energy experience in midstream, interstate pipelines and utilities. During her tenure at Xcel Energy, Ms. Campbell developed Xcel Energy’s risk management, regulatory, environmental and operating plans for its gas assets while improving operating and financial results across the enterprise. Ms. Campbell also developed the same programs for WestGas InterState while she was serving as its President and CEO. Her experience includes strategic planning, operations, regulatory and risk management. Ms. Campbell is a champion of public and employee safety and served on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee from 2013 to 2018, providing guidance to the Secretary of Transportation on the safety of the nation’s gas pipeline infrastructure. Ms. Campbell also served as a member of the independent panel assessing the enterprise risk management and overall safety of the 11 gas utilities in Massachusetts in the aftermath of the September 2018 explosions and fires in Merrimack Valley.

Fred J. Fowler has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since March 2012. He is the retired Chairman of the Board of Spectra Energy Partners, LP (a master limited partnership that owns natural gas transmission and storage assets). In addition to serving on the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, Mr. Fowler has also been serving as a member of the boards of Ovintiv, Inc. (formerly Encana Corporation) (a natural gas producer) since 2010 and of DCP Midstream Partners, LP (a master limited partnership that owns, operates, acquires, and develops midstream energy assets) since 2015. Previously, in addition to serving as Chairman of the Board of Spectra Energy Partners, LP (2008 to 2013) and as a member of the Board of Spectra Energy Partners, LP (2008 to 2017), Mr. Fowler was President and CEO of Spectra Energy Corp (a natural gas gathering and processing, transmission and storage, and distribution company) (2006 to 2008) and served as a director of that company. Before that, he held various executive positions with Duke Energy Corporation (gas and electric energy company) and its subsidiaries and predecessor companies, including President and COO of Duke Energy. Mr. Fowler is the former Chairman of the Board of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America and a former director of the Gas Research Institute, the Gas Technology Institute, and the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations.

Mr. Fowler brings extensive knowledge and over 45 years of experience in utility company operations, including safety, natural gas and gas liquids production, transportation and marketing, and electricity generation, transmission and distribution. He brings leadership, management, and business skills developed as an executive and a director of numerous public and privately held companies.

William D. Johnson is the CEO and President of PG&E Corporation (May 2019 to present), and is a member of the PG&E Corporation Board (May 2019 to present) and the Utility Board (June 2019 to present). Mr. Johnson served as President and CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from 2013 to April 2019. Prior to his tenure at the TVA, Mr. Johnson was the Chairman, President and CEO of Progress Energy.

Mr. Johnson brings over 20 years of utility experience and leadership as a utility industry executive. During his six-year tenure at TVA, he was responsible for leading the nation’s largest public utility in its mission of providing energy, environmental stewardship and economic development across a seven-state region. During Mr. Johnson’s time at TVA, the organization achieved the best safety records in its 85-year history and has been a perennial top decile safety performer in the utility industry. In that same period, retirement of more than half of TVA’s coal generation, resulting in a reduction of TVA’s carbon omissions by about 50% over the last decade. He was responsible for leading the generation of more than 50% of TVA’s energy from non-greenhouse gas emitting sources. He also oversaw TVA’s expansion into utility scale solar in recent years, with the addition of approximately 1,000 megawatts (mWs), and pursued the modernization of its hydro assets to increase the overall amount of renewable resources. TVA’s renewable portfolio includes almost 2,400 mWs of wind and solar and 5,800 mWs of hydro capacity. Throughout his career in the electric utilities industry, Mr. Johnson has collaborated closely with elected officials and other community leaders to deliver safe and reliable electricity to millions of customers.

Mr. Johnson serves on the board of the Nuclear Energy Institute (2017 to present) and previously served on the boards of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (2013 to 2019), the Nuclear Electric Institute Limited (2012 to 2019), and the World Association of Nuclear Operations (2015 o 2019).

Michael J. Leffell has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since April 2019. He is the Founder of Portage Partners LLC (a privately held company focused on sourcing, analyzing and monitoring non-traditional investment opportunities) and Chairman of Canoe Software (a financial technology company). Prior to founding Portage Partners in 2010, Mr. Leffell was the Deputy Executive Managing Member of Davidson Kempner Capital Management, a global institutional investment management firm. Mr. Leffell served as a member of the board of Genco Shipping and Trading Limited (a publicly traded transportation services company) (2014-2016).

Mr. Leffell has over 20 years of experience participating in the restructuring of multiple businesses under Chapter 11. In addition to serving as the Deputy Executive Managing Member of Davidson Kempner Capital Management, Mr. Leffell also co-managed the Distressed Investment strategy, including multiple positions in a broad range of large complex corporate restructuring and domestic and international bankruptcies that often implicated complex litigation.

Dominique Mielle has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since April 2019. She is a former Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager at Canyon Partners LLC (an investment manager that specializes in value-oriented special situation investments for institutional investors). In addition to serving on the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, Ms. Mielle has also been serving as a member of the boards of Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation (a mortgage REIT investment firm) since 2018, of Studio City International since 2018, and of Tiptree Inc. (a holding company combining insurance operations and investment management capabilities) since January 2020. Ms. Mielle was a partner and senior portfolio manager at Canyon Partners, where she worked from 1998 to 2017. Before 1998, she worked at various investment banks, including Libra Investments, Lehman Brothers and Credit Lyonnais.

Ms. Mielle has played key roles in complicated bankruptcies where public safety and the economic well-being of the public were critical issues requiring extensive engagement with government entities, regulatory agencies and affected communities. Ms. Mielle was a member of the creditors’ committee for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and also served as a restructuring committee member of American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines and United Airlines in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Ms. Mielle earned an MBA from Stanford University. She is a long-time California resident.

Meridee A. Moore has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since April 2019. She is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Watershed Asset Management (a San Francisco-based alternative asset manager). Before returning capital in 2017, Watershed managed institutional capital, primarily for endowments, foundations and pension funds. In addition to serving on the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, Ms. Moore serves on the board of Blackrock Capital Investment Corporation (2017 to present), a public business development corporation that makes loans to middle market companies. She serves on the Audit and Governance Committees of the BCIC boards. Ms. Moore also serves on the board of Nextgen Climate America (a California-based climate policy non-profit) (2014 to present) and as a director on the advisory board of Fiduciary Counselling Inc., a private investment firm (2018 to present). Ms. Moore has served as a trustee of Right to Play International (2003 to 2018), Right to Play US (2004 to 2019) and Grace Cathedral (2011 to 2018). Ms. Moore also served on the boards of Morgans Hotel Group (2005 to 2007) and AMF Bowling Worldwide (2001 to 2003). Before founding Watershed Asset Management, Ms. Moore was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Farallon Capital Management (a global institutional investment firm). Prior to Farallon, Ms. Moore worked in Lehman Brothers’ investment bank and was a corporate law attorney at Simpson Thacher and Bartlett.

Ms. Moore has over 25 years of investment, corporate finance and public board experience over a wide range of industries. She was the founder and CEO of an SEC registered investment adviser where she was responsible for all investment, operating and compliance functions. She has participated in several complex restructurings, including leading an innovative financing during the first PG&E bankruptcy in 2001. She has also overseen investments in turnarounds with complex regulatory, labor and commodity issues, including Northwest Airlines, United Airlines, Clear Chanel Communications, United Companies Financial Corporation and Calpine Corporation. She has also supervised the implementation of community safety protocols in her role on the Board of Right to Play and AMF. She is a 29 year San Francisco resident.

Eric D. Mullins has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since September 2016. He has been the Co-CEO of Lime Rock Resources, L.P. (a private equity investment firm that acquires, operates, and improves oil and natural gas properties in the U.S.) since 2005. In addition to serving on the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, Mr. Mullins has also been serving as member of the board of Valero Energy Corporation (January 2020 to present) and served as a member of the board of Anadarko Petroleum Company (an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company) from 2012 to 2019. Prior to co-founding Lime Rock Resources, L.P. in 2005, Mr. Mullins worked in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs & Co. for 15 years, most recently as managing director in the firm’s Energy and Power Group, where he led numerous financing, structuring, and strategic advisory transactions for public and private oil and gas exploration and production companies. Mr. Mullins currently serves as a member of the Baylor College of Medicine Board of Trustees.

Mr. Mullins brings operational, business development, and mergers and acquisition experience in the energy sector, as well as director and audit committee experience from his other public company board service. He also brings strategic management, leadership, and corporate financial expertise developed as an executive in the investment banking industry working with both public and private companies in the natural resources and utilities sector.

Kristine M. Schmidt has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since April 2019. She is a former Chief Executive Officer of Peak Utility Services Group. Ms. Schmidt was the President, founder and owner of Swan Consulting Services (a consulting company that provides strategic, regulatory and advisory services to utilities and equipment and services related businesses in the electricity and natural gas utility industry) from 2015 to 2018. Before that, she was President of ITC Great Plains and Vice President at ITC Holdings. Ms. Schmidt served as a member of the Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM) Governing Body in the western region. Ms. Schmidt also served on the board of Peak Utility Services Group in 2018.

Ms. Schmidt has over 35 years of experience in the electricity industry, having worked for and consulted with some of the largest public utilities throughout the United States. Over the last 25 years, Ms. Schmidt’s experience was primarily in the regional wholesale market arena and high voltage transmission development and regulatory and public policies. The regional wholesale markets are critical across the United States to efficiently and cost-effectively integrate large scale renewables while providing a competitive platform for wholesale energy trading. Ms. Schmidt has served as a FERC Commissioner Advisor, addressing national policies and reforms resulting from the California Energy Crisis and FERC’s expanded authority from the Energy Policy Act, among other key policy issues. Ms. Schmidt was the Chair of the inaugural (WEIM) Governing Body and was a member of the Governing Body which had governance responsibility over the wholesale energy imbalance market in the western region, including California. Ms. Schmidt was previously CEO of Peak Utility Services Group, a leading utility construction service provider. She was also a corporate officer with the nation’s largest independent high voltage transmission company, ITC Holdings Corporation, and the President of ITC Great Plains. Ms. Schmidt has also held various senior management responsibilities for public utilities, including Xcel Energy.

William L. Smith has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since October 2019. He also served on the board of directors of Oclaro Corporation (manufacturer and seller or optical components) from 2009 through 2018, and on the advisory boards of ASOCS Ltd. (developer of on-premise cloud solutions for industries such as retail, real estate, hospitality, sports, and entertainment), Tillman Infrastructure (cellular tower and telecom infrastructure), and Blue Ridge Networks (software for remote access cybersecurity systems and solutions).

Mr. Smith is the retired President of AT&T Technology Operations at AT&T Services, Inc. where he spent 37 years with the telecommunications service provider and its predecessor companies. He held a number of senior officer positions at AT&T, including President of Network Operations where he oversaw data center and information technology operations, DIRECTV field operations, and planning, engineering, construction, provisioning and maintenance for the company’s wireless and wireline networks. He also served as Executive Vice President of Shared Services for AT&T and Chief Technology Officer for Bell South Corp. Mr. Smith brings a comprehensive focus on large-scale integration and modernization of vast infrastructure networks, an ability to identify and leverage new technologies to meet future businesses needs, and a track record of delivering on commitments to public and employee safety.

Andrew M. Vesey is the CEO and President of the Utility (August 2019 to present) and also is a member of the Utility Board (September 2019 to present). He brings more than 42 years of diverse utility industry experience to PG&E, including several roles as chief executive officer at major energy companies. Prior to joining PG&E, Vesey served as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Sydney-based AGL Energy Limited (an integrated Australian energy company serving about 3.7 million electric and natural gas customers and operating 20 percent of the country’s power generation capacity) from 2015 to 2018, and also served on AGL’s board of directors during that time. As AGL’s top leader, Vesey committed to closing all of the company’s coal-fired generation by 2050.

Before AGL, he also served in a number of successively greater leadership roles at energy companies such AES Corporation, where he was the Chief Operating Officer, and Entergy Corporation and Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, both where he served as a senior leader. Vesey also spent a number of years as an energy industry consultant and leader at firms that included FTI Consulting and Ernst & Young. He also served as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Melbourne-based CitiPower in Australia. Vesey began his career as a system planning engineer at Consolidated Edison in his native New York.

Alejandro D. Wolff has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since April 2019. In addition to serving on the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility, Mr. Wolff currently serves as a member of the boards of Albemarle Corporation (a public specialty chemicals company) since 2015, and Frontier Airlines since 2019, and JetSMART Holdings Limited (a private airline operating in South America). He was Lead Independent Director of Versum Materials (a public specialty chemicals company) from 2016 to 2019 and was a former Managing Director of Gryphon Partners (a global advisory firm focused on emerging and frontier markets). Mr. Wolff served in the U.S. State Department for 34 years, including tours as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Chile from 2010 to 2013 and the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2010. Mr. Wolff currently also serves since 2017 as a board member of. Mr. Wolff is an advisory board member of the Counter Extremism Project.

Mr. Wolff brings decades of experience in high-level political, economic, and security issues from his 34-year career in the U.S. State Department. As Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, Mr. Wolff promoted U.S.-origin renewable energy alternatives for Chile, including solar power. Mr. Wolff currently serves as on Albemarle’s Health, Safety & Environment Committee and chairs its Compensation Committee. He has wide-ranging experience managing natural disaster, conflict, and terrorist-response situations, and a successful negotiating record of bridging differences among numerous constituencies with competing interests. He brings considerable knowledge of clean energy, sustainability, renewable energy and electricity storage, as well as industrial safety. Mr. Wolff was a long-term resident of California, graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and continues to have close ties to California.

John M. Woolard has served as a member of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility since October 2019. Prior to that time, he served as Vice President, Energy, for Google, Inc. (from 2014 to 2016). He also serves on the advisory board of the University of California, Berkeley’s Energy and Climate Initiative, and is a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute and a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Mr. Woolard is Chief Executive Officer of Meridian Energy, an energy consulting and asset acquisition company, and a Senior Operating Partner at San Francisco-based Activate Capital. He has more than 20 years of experience as an executive in the energy technology sector. Mr. Woolard previously served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of BrightSource Energy, where he led the development, construction, and commissioning of large scale solar projects in California. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Energy Corp, was Vice President of Energy at Google, and headed the Energy Management Solutions Group at Itron Inc. Mr. Woolard brings extensive experience in developing world-class clean energy projects, a technological background and understanding of software and grid modernization solutions, and is well versed in California’s regulatory and policy goals. He is a long-time California resident.

Website Availability of Code of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Other Documents

The following documents are available both on the Corporate Governance section of PG&E Corporation’s website (www.pgecorp.com/corp/about-us/corporate-governance.page) and on the Utility’s website (www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/company-information.page, under the Corporate Governance tab): (1) the PG&E Corporation and the Utility’s codes of conduct (which meet the definition of “code of ethics” of Item 406(b) of the SEC Regulation S-K) adopted by PG&E Corporation and the Utility and applicable to their directors and employees, including their respective Chief Executive Officer and Presidents, Chief Financial Officers, Controllers and other executive officers, (2) PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s respective corporate governance guidelines, and (3) key Board committee charters, including charters for the companies’ Audit Committees and the PG&E Corporation Nominating and Governance Committee and Compensation Committee.

If any amendments are made to, or any waivers are granted with respect to, provisions of the code of ethics adopted by PG&E Corporation and the Utility and that apply to their respective Chief Executive Officer and Presidents, Chief Financial Officers, or Controllers, PG&E Corporation and the Utility will post the amended code of ethics on their websites and will disclose any waivers to the code of ethics in a Current Report on Form 8-K.

Procedures for Shareholder Recommendations of Nominees to the Boards of Directors

There were no material changes to the procedures described in PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Joint Proxy Statement relating to the 2019 annual meetings of shareholders by which security holders may recommend nominees to PG&E Corporation’s or the Utility’s Boards of Directors.

Audit Committees and Audit Committee Financial Expert

The Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility have established standing Audit Committees in accordance with Section 3(a)(58)(A) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Audit Committees of the Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility oversee and monitor the following areas for these companies and their controlled subsidiaries and affiliates:

●Integrity of the company financial statements, and financial and accounting practices;
●Internal control over financial reporting, and external and internal auditing programs;
●Selection and oversight of the companies’ Independent Auditor;
●Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, in concert with other Board committees;
●Related party transactions; and
●With the assistance of other Board committees, risk management and assessment.

The Audit Committees of PG&E Corporation and the Utility are currently composed of four directors: Richard R. Barrera, Dominique Mielle (Chair), Eric D. Mullins and Kristine M. Schmidt. The Audit Committees met nine times during 2019. The Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility have adopted formal charters that set forth their respective Audit Committee’s duties and responsibilities; current copies of the charters are available online through the Corporate Governance section of PG&E Corporation’s website (www.pgecorp.com/corp/about-us/corporate-governance.page) or the Company Information section of the Utility’s website (www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/company-information.page, under the “Get more information about our corporate governance practices” link), as appropriate.

The Audit Committees are composed entirely of independent directors, as defined in PG&E Corporation’s and the Utility’s Guidelines, as applicable, and the Audit Committee’s charters. In addition, the Audit Committees are composed entirely of independent directors, as required and defined by the NYSE.

Each member of the Audit Committees also satisfies heightened independence standards established by SEC rules and applicable stock exchange requirements regarding independence of audit committee members. Each member of the Audit Committees also is financially literate. The Boards of PG&E Corporation and the Utility have determined that each of Dominique Mielle and Eric D. Mullins has accounting and related financial management expertise and qualifies as an audit committee financial expert, as defined by the SEC and applicable stock exchanges. Background information on each audit committee financial expert can be found under the heading “Directors” in this Item 10.

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