NERC announces board of trustees changes
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) first Board of Trustees meeting of 2017, recently held in San Diego, California, saw several changes in board membership.
Roy Thilly, elected to the board in 2011, replaced Fred Gorbet as chair. Gorbet held the position of chair
for the past four years. He will remain on the board with responsibilities for international coordination.
Thilly has served served on multiple board committees since his election. Most recently, he served on the Corporate Governance and Human Resources and Compliance Committees.
Thilly, Gorbet, and Janice Case were re-elected to the board for three-year terms during a Member Representatives Committee meeting held last week. Kenneth DeFontes took over as vice chair.
In addition to Thilly’s installation, Deborah Parker joined the board, taking the place of 12-year member Paul Barber.
Parker was elected to the board on Feb. 8. She is currently president and CEO of International Business Solutions, a consulting company for strategic business process management, which provides consulting services on strategic business process management. Previously, she served as senior vice president of quality and environment and health and safety at Alstom, Ltd., and worked as a senior executive with Ford Motor Company.
The Board bid farewell to Barber at the meeting and praised his contributions the industry and Electric Reliability Organization (ERO). Barber was first appointed to the board in February 2005 and has served on various committees, including most recently the Standards and Oversight Technology Committee.
NERC President and CEO Gerry Cauley wished Barber well in a speech and also highlighted NERC’s accomplishments over the last year, while offering an outlook for the year ahead.
“2016 was a good year with positive set of results,” Cauley said. “However, we must keep raising the bar and working to enhance reliability for the bulk power system. Our next challenge will be about training and educating on the risk based model, as well as focusing on consistency, security and furthering our analytic capabilities. Information sharing and analytics have greatly improved and we are better able to identify many risks before they impact the system.”
