Northwest Natural Holding Company Elects Monica Enand to the Board as Class I Director
November 13, 2019 at 04:35 pm IST
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On November 12, 2019, the Board of Directors (Board) of Northwest Natural Holding Company (Company) elected Monica Enand to the Board as a Class I director commencing November 12, 2019 for a term expiring on the date of the Company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which is expected to be May 28, 2020. She was also elected to the Board of Directors of Northwest Natural Gas Company, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary (NW Natural), commencing November 12, 2019. In 2008, Ms. Enand founded Zapproved, a cloud-based software provider for corporate legal departments, where she currently serves as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to founding Zapproved, she was the director of business development and marketing at Avnera Corporation, a fabless semiconductor manufacturer. Ms. Enand has also held sales and marketing positions at IBM and was a program manager in the Compiler and Architecture Group at Intel. Ms. Enand serves as Chair of Auth0, is an Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Directors of Technology Association of Oregon, and is a Board member of Oregon Business Council. Ms. Enand has previously served as a member of Oregon Growth Board and Oregon Innovation Council.
Northwest Natural Holding Company is a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides natural gas services. Its subsidiary, Northwest Natural Gas Company (NW Natural), distributes natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Oregon and southwest Washington. NW Natural operates through the Natural Gas Distribution (NGD) segment. The NGD segment provides natural gas service through approximately 799,000 meters in Oregon and southwest Washington. The NGD segment serves residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Its other business activities include certain gas storage activities, water and wastewater businesses, non-regulated renewable natural gas activities and other investments and activities. It has a diverse portfolio of short, medium, and long-term firm gas supply contracts and a variety of contract types including firm and interruptible supplies as well as supplemental supplies from gas storage facilities.