Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;

Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain

Officers.

On January 25, 2023, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of SJW Group (the "Company") appointed Mohammed (Rally) G. Zerhouni as the Senior Vice President of Finance, Principal Accounting Officer of the Company, effective January 30, 2023. On January 25, 2023, Mr. Zerhouni was also appointed as the Senior Vice President of Finance, Principal Accounting Officer of San Jose Water Company, SJWTX, Inc., SJWTX Holdings, Inc. and Connecticut Water Service, Inc., all wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company, effective January 30, 2023.

Mr. Zerhouni, age 47, served as Chief Financial Officer of Veolia Utility Parent, Inc. ("Veolia Utility," formerly known as Suez Utility Parent Inc.) from October 2022 to January 2023. Veolia Utility is part of North American business of Veolia Group and is a rate-regulated water and wastewater company with operations in six states of the United States serving a population of more than 2.2 million. Previously, he was the Vice President/Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Veolia Utility from December 2018 to September 2022. He served in various roles of increasing responsibility up to a Senior Manager in the audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from December 2004 to December 2018. He graduated from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University with a B.S. in Business Administration and from Franklin University with a M.B.A. and B.S. in Accounting.

In connection with the appointment of Mr. Zerhouni as Senior Vice President of Finance, Principal Accounting Officer of the Company, his annual base salary was set at $350,000 and his target annual incentive cash compensation was set at thirty percent (30%) of his base salary. In addition, the Executive Compensation Committee of the Board (the "Compensation Committee") approved a resolution setting the dollar amounts represented by shares subject to service-based restricted stock unit ("RSU") awards at $78,750 and shares subject to performance-based RSU awards at $26,250 to be granted to Mr. Zerhouni under the Company's Long-Term Incentive Plan.

On January 31, 2023, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Zerhouni as described above. A copy of this press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.





(d) Exhibits


                                 Exhibit Index

Exhibit
  No.        Description

99.1           Press Release, dated January 31, 2023.

104          Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are
             embedded within Inline XBRL document.

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