ANN R. KLEE
Ann R. Klee has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2020. Ms. Klee served as the Executive Vice President, Business Development & External Affairs at Suffolk Construction, a construction contracting company, from February 2020 until March 2021. Prior to that, she was the Vice President, Environment Health & Safety at General Electric (“GE”), a multinational conglomerate, from February 2008 to September 2019, and the vice president, Boston Development & Operations at GE from January 2016 to September 2019. At GE, she was also the President of the GE Foundation from August 2015 to September 2019, where she oversaw GE’s $140 million annual charitable contributions. Before joining GE, she was a partner at Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C. from 2006 to 2007, where she served as co-chair of the firm’s Environment and Natural Resources group. Prior to that, she served as General Counsel to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as Counselor and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee.
Ms. Klee serves on the board of directors of Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) and is the chair of the Compensation and Talent Management Committee and the Environmental, Social and Governance subcommittee of the Governance and Sustainability Committee. She holds a B.A. with High Honors in classics from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Ms. Klee was selected to serve on our board of directors because of her extensive experience as an environmental lawyer managing complex litigation, and for her expertise in environmental law, regulation and policy and corporate responsibility matters.