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Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, the first woman to chair the California Energy Commission, and the first woman to be a corporate officer of Pacific Gas & Electric (VP, strategic initiatives), died on April 26.

Linquist spoke about shareholder activism with Chris Young, a lawyer who moved into investment banking in the technology sector. Young spent six years at Institutional Shareholder Services. Chris joined Credit Suisse seven years ago and leads the Contested Situations Group.

Mike Caranfa leads sales efforts for the electricity and water businesses in the Americas.

Jane Lewis-Raymond is a partner in Parker Poe's Charlotte office, practicing with the firm's Public Company Growth & Compliance and Energy groups. She has over 25 years of legal experience, including a decade as general counsel and chief compliance officer of a publicly traded company, Piedmont Natural Gas.

Terium is CEO and Chair of the Mgmt. Board at innogy SE. Grellman is Managing Dir., innogy Consulting.

Rudy Wynter oversees electric transmission and generation, liquefied natural gas storage, and gas transmission pipeline investments at National Grid. With over 25 years of experience in the utility sector, Wynter has held positions in customer operations, strategic planning, engineering, and operations.

Since early February 2017, FERC has faced an unprecedented freeze of certain major agenda items when one of its three remaining commissioners resigned, leaving just two. The agency usually has five commissioners, and typically needs a quorum of at least three to approve certain projects. FERC has never been in a situation in which it had just two commissioners until this year.

Owens has been the industry’s debater-in-chief. This month, uncharacteristically, he’s decided to put down the mic for good.

Here are six pieces of advice I had learned, often the hard way, during my thirty-seven years doing energy work in Washington, D.C.