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SENIOR LEADERS

NRECA's leadership team

JIM MATHESON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Jim Matheson is chief executive officer of the National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association (NRECA), the national service organization that
represents the nation’s more than 900 private, not-for-profit, consumer-owned
electric cooperatives, which provide service to 42 million people in 47 states.
Jim joined NRECA in July 2016 following distinguished careers in both the public
and private sectors.

Prior to joining NRECA, Jim served as principal, public policy practice for the
international law firm Squire Patton Boggs based in Washington, D.C.

From 2001 to 2015, Jim was elected to serve as a U.S. Representative from Utah
for seven terms. During his tenure on Capitol Hill, Jim was known as a
legislator who was able to work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

He was chief deputy whip for the House Democratic Caucus and served as
co-chairman of the Blue Dog Coalition. Jim also was a member of the House Energy
and Commerce Committee, as well as the Financial Services, Transportation and
Infrastructure, and Science Committees.

Prior to entering government service, Jim worked in the energy industry for
several years.

Jim was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received a Bachelor’s Degree
in Government from Harvard University and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from
UCLA. Jim’s wife, Amy, is a pediatrician, and they have two sons, William and
Harris.


Jeffrey Connor, Chief Operating Officer

Jeffrey Connor serves as NRECA’s chief operating officer. With a background in
public policy, communication, politics and coalition building, he brings 14
years of experience on Capitol Hill to NRECA.

In Congress, Jeffrey served as communications director and chief of staff to
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., from 2003 to 2013, when he joined NRECA.
Previously, he worked as communications director for U.S. Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb.

Jeffrey was also an associate staff member of the House Appropriations
Committee, where he guided the work of the Subcommittee on Financial Services
for Chairwoman Emerson following the 2008 U.S. financial crisis. He also helped
expand the reach of several nonpartisan policy caucuses in the U.S. House of
Representatives.

He is a native Nebraskan and a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.
Jeffrey resides in Northern Virginia with his wife, Emily, and their two
children.


Jana Adams, Executive Director, Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives

As executive director of Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives, Jana Adams focuses on
providing strategic leadership and enhancing brand equity for the organization.
Jana is dedicated to building upon the brand’s strong relationships with the
more than 700 cooperative members to promote and expand the Best in Class
service that their consumer-members expect.

With more than 20 years of nonprofit management experience, Jana has led
membership, marketing and conference development for associations representing
wind energy, cosmetics, and public power utilities as well as serving on the
communications staff at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Jana is a graduate of Clemson University with a bachelor’s degree in
international trade and George Mason University with a Master of Public
Administration concentrating on nonprofit management.


D. Scott Barash, Senior Vice President and General Counsel

D. Scott Barash is NRECA’s senior vice president and general counsel. Prior to
joining NRECA, Scott was general counsel for District of Columbia Public
Schools. Before joining DCPS in 2015, Scott was general counsel for the
University of the District of Columbia.

From 1999 to 2014, Scott was a senior executive at the Universal Service
Administrative Co., the not-for-profit corporation that administers the
multibillion-dollar federal programs that provide support for affordable
telecommunications and broadband services to Americans living in rural areas,
low-income consumers (through the Lifeline Program), rural health care
providers, and schools and libraries (through the E-rate program). Scott joined
USAC as its first general counsel in 1999 and served in that capacity until
2005, when he assumed CEO responsibilities.

Before USAC, Scott was a partner in the national law firm of Jenner & Block and
served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of
Justice. He began his career as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Lanier Anderson
III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Scott received his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. from the University of
Chicago Law School. He lives in D.C. and is married to Gayle Wald, who is a
professor of American studies at George Washington University Law School. They
have a teenage son.


Peter Baxter, Senior Vice President, Insurance & Financial Services

Peter Baxter is senior vice president of insurance and financial services. He
has overall responsibility for the multiple-employer defined benefit, defined
contribution and health and wellness programs offered to member cooperatives
representing more than $20 billion in qualified plan assets and covering over
100,000 employees and their dependents across the country. Peter has more than
35 years of experience in the employee benefits, group insurance and financial
services industries.

Prior to joining NRECA, he held a variety of leadership positions in
not-for-profit, privately held and public firms, including Mutual of America
Life Insurance Co., Financial Institutions Retirement Fund, American Century
Investments and EDS. He has also worked for leading employee benefit consulting
firms Buck Consultants and Towers Perrin. At these firms, Peter’s
responsibilities included executive leadership, market strategy, product design
and development, administrative operations, vendor management and service
delivery. He also has extensive experience in the use of technology and industry
best practices to enhance business processes, customer service and program
administration.

Peter is a graduate of the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is a member of
the Board of Trustees of the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI) and the
Executive and Policy Advisory Boards of the American Benefits Council (ABC) in
Washington, D.C. He is also president of the Electric Cooperative Life Insurance
Co. (ELCO), Cooperative Benefit Administrators Inc. (CBA) and Cooperating
Insurance Services Inc. (CIS).


Louis Finkel, Senior Vice President, Government Relations

Louis Finkel is NRECA’s senior vice president of government relations. He leads
the association’s advocacy and public policy programs, including legislative and
regulatory affairs, grassroots mobilization and political engagement.

Louis has more than 25 years of experience in policy and public affairs strategy
in government and in the private sector. Before joining NRECA, he held
leadership roles in government and public affairs as an executive at CVS Health
Corporation, the American Petroleum Institute and the Grocery Manufacturers
Association. He also has represented corporate and not-for-profit interests in
Congress and executive branch agencies as a government relations consultant.

Louis served as chief of staff for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee
on Science and Technology and as legislative director to former Rep. Bart
Gordon. D-Tenn.

He is a graduate of The George Washington University and lives in Arlington,
Virginia, with his wife, Stacey, and their two sons.


Kenneth Lisaius, Senior Vice President, Communications

Kenneth Lisaius is NRECA’s senior vice president of Communications. He brings
over 25 years of public affairs and communications experience to the
organization. Ken leads the organization’s extensive communications, media,
public relations, marketing and publications supporting nearly 900 electric
cooperatives nationwide.

Before joining NRECA, Ken was vice president of Public Affairs and
Communications for CLEAR, the secure identity company that is best known for its
biometric identity verification in airports and arenas across the U.S. Prior to
that, he spent more than eight years at the Biotechnology Innovation
Organization (BIO), the national trade association representing the
biotechnology industry.

Ken also has extensive experience in the political and policy arena, having
served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy White
House Press Secretary and on multiple political campaigns. He has worked in
public affairs, communications and marketing consulting roles for Fortune 500
organizations and trade associations.

A graduate of Washington State University, Ken lives in Alexandria, Virginia,
with his wife and two daughters.

Digna Louis, Chief Financial Officer

Digna Louis serves as NRECA’s chief financial officer. With over 20 years of
experience in finance and accounting, she has led many large-scale
transformations across the integration of finance and technology and accounting
operations. Prior to joining NRECA, Digna held a variety of leadership positions
with the most recent as vice president and global head of finance strategy and
solutions at Expedia Group Inc., an online travel company. She has served as
senior vice president of finance and accounting at Comscore, a media measurement
and analytics company, and during her 11 years at Fannie Mae, she served in
several leadership roles, including vice president of finance transformation,
where she modernized the major finance systems and processes of the
organization.

Digna received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Economics from
the University of the West Indies and her Master of Business Administration with
an emphasis in Finance from the University of Houston.


Wayne F. McGurk, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of
Information Technology

Wayne F. McGurk serves as NRECA’s chief information officer and senior vice
president of information technology. As NRECA’s CIO, he is responsible for
shaping the association’s technology vision and leadership as he oversees
NRECA’s enterprise-wide information technology program.

Before joining NRECA, McGurk was executive vice president and CIO at MoneyGram
International. Prior to MoneyGram, McGurk held various IT leadership and
management roles in global retail, software, financial services and IT
consulting companies. He has more than 15 years of IT experience and is a
graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a bachelor of science
in engineering.


Erin Pressley, Senior Vice President, Education, Training and Events

Erin Pressley is NRECA’s senior vice president for education, training and
events. Prior to joining NRECA, Erin served for 15 years as vice president of
media and education at NACS, the association that represents the global
convenience store industry, where she was a member of the association’s
executive leadership team. She has also served in several sales, media and
communications roles during her career, leading the development of business
strategies and managing content development across many communications
platforms.

Erin received her B.S. in English from the University of Mary Washington, her
M.A. in English from George Mason University, and has attended executive
education programs at Cornell, Yale, MIT, the Kellogg School of Management and
the Wharton School of Business. She is a founding board member of Professionals
for Association Revenue and also a certified association executive through the
American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).

Michele Rinn, Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Michele Rinn is NRECA’s senior vice president of human resources. She leads the
development and implementation of talent management and rewards programs to
ensure NRECA attracts, develops and retains top talent to achieve the
association’s strategic priorities and serve the nation’s electric cooperatives.
Those responsibilities include recruitment, training and development, employee
relations, compensation and benefits, and member workforce programs.

Michele has more than 25 years of experience in human resources and started her
career at the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC).
Prior to joining NRECA, Michele has led human resources departments at several
national trade associations and professional societies. She also has headed
other corporate services functions, including IT, facilities, creative services
and general membership.

Michele has a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and an MBA
from Marymount University. She has earned professional certifications from the
Society for Human Resources and the American Society of Association Executives
and is a Senior Professional in Human Resources.


Mark Santero, President and CEO, Homestead Advisers; CEO, Homestead Funds

Mark Santero is president and CEO of NRECA’s investment management subsidiary,
Homestead Advisers. He also was elected CEO of Homestead Funds, the mutual fund
company created by NRECA, by the investment vehicle’s board of directors.

Santero brings more than 30 years of experience in investment management to
Homestead Advisers. Most recently, he was the CEO at Dreyfus Corporation, a
subsidiary of BNY Mellon Investment Management. He was chief operating officer
of BNY, where he oversaw the legal, administration and technology departments
and a staff of more than 500 professionals in intermediary sales, institutional
sales, operations and investments.

He also served as head of distribution operations at OppenheimerFunds, where he
was responsible for strategic planning and budgeting, client service, sales
operations, distribution technology, event planning and sales data science
capabilities. Before that, he oversaw the Global Investment Division of Ivy
Asset Management.

Santero has a B.S. and MBA in finance from Fordham University in New York.

Regina Sheehan, Vice President, Membership & Business Development

Regina Sheehan is NRECA’s vice president of membership & business development.
She brings over 25 years of trade association experience to the organization.
Regina leads the organization’s membership, membership technical services,
sponsorship and advertising efforts supporting NRECA’s more than 1,500 members.

Before joining NRECA, Regina spent more than 12 years at NACS, the Association
for Convenience and Fuel Retailing, leading the convention operations team to
produce the 35th largest tradeshow in the country. The team she led also
designed and executed more than 20 in-person domestic and international
meetings. Regina also spent six years at the National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB), collaborating to produce the second largest annual tradeshow
in the country at that time.

Regina received both her B.A. in Psychology and her MBA from Loyola University
Maryland. She has attended executive education programs at Cornell and Yale.
Regina is a native Washingtonian and resides in Reston, Virginia, with her two
teenage daughters.

Danielle Sieverling, VP, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer

In her role as chief risk and compliance officer, Danielle Sieverling currently
oversees compliance for both the Homestead Funds Inc. (a registered investment
management company), and for the multiple-employer retirement, health, and
welfare programs that the Association offers to member cooperatives.
Additionally, she is responsible for leading the association’s risk management
strategy.

Danielle has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of audit, risk
management and compliance. She is an ASPPA Qualified 401(k) Administrator (QKA)
and an NRS Investment Adviser Certified Compliance Professional® (IACCP). She
holds the FINRA Series 6, 26, and 63 securities licenses.

Before joining NRECA in 2000, Danielle served as assistant vice president and
risk officer at State Street Bank in Kansas City, focusing on mutual fund and
insurance clients. During her tenure at the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners, she was responsible for training and developing the audit
programs for state insurance departments. Danielle received her Bachelor of
Science in business administration from Kansas State University and her Master
of Business Administration with an emphasis in finance from Rockhurst
University.

Angela Strickland, Senior Vice President, Business and Technology Strategies

Angela Strickland is NRECA’s senior vice president of Business and Technology
Strategies. BTS provides valuable research, collaboration and resources to help
electric cooperatives successfully operate, optimize and transform their systems
and relationships with consumer-members and works with service members and
associate members on joint solutions for cooperatives and industry leadership.

Angela has more than 25 years in the energy industry and most recently served as
managing director at GDS Associates where she led the group's work on advanced
energy roadmaps, sustainability and electric transportation strategy. She also
collaborated on strategy and new market opportunities for ICF's smart
communities and innovation initiatives. Prior to her consulting roles,
Strickland was Energy Innovation Center Product Development director at Southern
Company and held leadership positions at Gulf Power and Georgia Power. Angela
received her Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the
University of Tennessee and her Master of Business Administration from Georgia
State University. She holds a professional engineer license.


Dan Waddle, Senior Vice President, NRECA International

Dan Waddle is senior vice president of NRECA International, the NRECA affiliate
that promotes cooperative development and designs programs that offer access to
modern electric service in developing countries. He directs programs in Latin
America, sub-Saharan Africa and Central and South Asia. The programs focus on
low-cost electric service expansion through establishing and strengthening rural
electric utilities using conventional and off-grid solutions.

With more than 30 years of experience, Dan is an expert in electric power supply
and demand-side efficiency and in the design and implementation of renewable
energy projects. He has hands-on experience in designing small and micro-hydro
projects; biomass combustion and gasification for power applications; solar
photovoltaic applications; and wind-diesel hybrid projects. He has managed
numerous projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development; U.S. Dept.
of Energy; the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and Asian Development
Bank. Dan has a B.S. and M.S. in agricultural engineering and a Ph.D. from Texas
A&M University.


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