Ralph Izzo
DIRECTOR SINCE

August 10, 2020

SKILLS AND EXPERTISE
  • Senior leadership of a publicly traded company
  • Experience in strategic planning, finance, risk management and operations of large, highly regulated companies
  • Expertise in science, technology and public policy
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
  • Corporate Governance, Nominating and Social Responsibility Committee (Chair)
  • Audit Committee
  • Human Resources and Compensation Committee 
OTHER CURRENT PUBLIC COMPANY BOARD SERVICE
  • CMS Energy Corporation
  • Ovintiv Inc.

Mr. Izzo served as Chairman, President and CEO of Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (“PSEG”), a publicly traded diversified energy holding company, from April 2007 until September 2022, and as Executive Chair of PSEG from September 2022 until December 2022. He was the company’s president and chief operating officer and a member of the board of directors from October 2006 until his appointment as Chairman, President and CEO. Previously, Mr. Izzo was president and chief operating officer of Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G), an operating subsidiary of PSEG. Since joining PSE&G in 1992, Mr. Izzo has held several executive positions within the PSEG family of companies.

 

In addition to his current public company board service, Mr. Izzo serves on the board of directors of TerraPower, a nuclear innovation company, and served on the board of The Williams Companies, Inc. from 2013 to 2016. Mr. Izzo currently serves as a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, on the board of trustees of the Liberty Science Center, and on the boards of directors of The Community FoodBank of New Jersey and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, for which he also serves on the Executive Committee. Mr. Izzo is on the advisory board for the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peddie School and Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Advisory Council, as well as a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Columbia University School of Engineering Board of Visitors. He previously served as the chair of the Nuclear Energy Institute and on the boards of directors for the Edison Electric Institute and Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited. In addition, he is a former chair of the Rutgers University Board of Governors and the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.

 

Mr. Izzo received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in mechanical engineering and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in mechanical engineering/applied physics from Columbia University. He also received a Master of Business Administration degree, with a concentration in finance, from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management.