Baxter brings to our board of directors extensive experience as a senior executive and director of a large publicly held electric and natural gas utility, including as executive chairman, chairman, president, CEO and chief financial officer. He also held significant leadership roles in the electric and gas utility industry, including chair of the Edison Electric Institute and of EPRI (the Electric Power Research Institute). He has extensive public company board of director experience at two Fortune 500 companies, U.S. Bancorp and Quanta Services Inc., including leadership roles on boards, currently serving as chair of the Audit Committee at U.S. Bancorp. His leadership roles and experience provide WEC Energy Group and its board of directors with valuable customer- and industry-based insights, significant risk management oversight, operations and strategic planning skills, as well as expertise and knowledge related to legislative and regulatory matters, corporate governance, sustainability leadership, environmental issues, accounting and financial reporting, investor relations, human capital management, and compensation.
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