Dominion Energy, Inc. announced that Ronald W. Jibson and Michael E. Szymanczyk will retire from the company's board of directors, continuing to serve the company on the board until the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Jibson was elected to the board in 2016 after the completion of the combination of Dominion Energy and Questar Corporation, where he was chairman, president, and chief executive officer. He serves on the Finance and Risk Oversight and Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committees.

Szymanczyk was elected in 2012 after serving as chairman and chief executive officer of Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group, Inc. He chairs the Compensation and Talent Development Committee and serves on the Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committee. The company also announced that the board of directors has elected two new independent directors, Vanessa L. Allen Sutherland and Paul M. Dabbar. Those elections are effective Dec.

1, 2023, and part of the company's ongoing commitment to strong corporate governance and regular board refreshment of its board of directors. Together, Sutherland and Dabbar bring leadership, industry (including nuclear), corporate governance, environmental, government, public policy and legal, as well as technology expertise to the board. Sutherland is Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Houston-based Phillips 66, where she is a member of the executive leadership team.

Prior to her role at Phillips 66, Sutherland was Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for Norfolk Southern Corporation. In addition, Sutherland brings substantial knowledge of the public sector, having served as Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board and as Chief Counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. She also previously served in senior legal counsel roles for Altria Group, Inc. and Digex, Inc. Sutherland's corporate board experience includes previous service as a director of Southern Company Gas and Eastman Chemical Company.

She serves on the Virginia Symphony Orchestra Board in Norfolk, Va., and served as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, Ga. She earned a bachelor's degree from Drew University and a J.D. and MBA from American University. Dabbar is co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bohr Quantum Technology Corp., which develops and deploys quantum information technologies for the emerging quantum internet.

He is also a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. Previously, he was a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Under Secretary, serving as Under Secretary of Energy for Science. Prior to his role at the DOE, Dabbar was a senior investment banker at J.P. Morgan with significant transaction experience across all energy sectors, including solar, wind, geothermal, distributed-generation, utility, nuclear, LNG, pipeline, oil & gas, trading, and energy technologies.

In addition, he had a senior leadership role for the company's commodity trading business, including power, oil, and gas. In addition, Dabbar was a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer aboard the USS Pintado. Dabbar serves on the boards of Bohr and Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition II Corp.

He is a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and served on the DOE'sResearch and Technology Investment Committee and the boards of the National Science and Technology Council, the Manhattan Project National Park, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge, and the DOE's Environmental Management Board. Dabbar is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and of the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Power and Engineers programs. He earned an MBA from Columbia University.