Elizabeth has over 35 years of experience in energy, retail sales and distribution, and services industries. Elizabeth spent the first decade of her career with a Big 4 Accounting firm delivering software development and strategic management consulting services to oil & gas, consumer products, and retail distribution clients.

During the second decade of her career, she was handpicked by the C-suite of a start-up for a newly created position to establish the processes, policies, and tools to lead a $6 billion back office/financial operations and customer fulfillment organization employing a staff of 500. Her responsibilities increased each year as she and her team succeeded in creating a cost-effective, nimble, and reliable platform.

During the third decade of her career, Elizabeth was promoted to president to provide P&L, visionary leadership and direction for NRG's multi-brand retail organization. She led NRG's retail business transformation from system power to a consumers' power business model across North America. She and her team grew the business from $500 million to $1.5 billion in earnings and increased the customer base from 2 million to 6 million. Under her leadership, NRG's Home business segment generated $10 billion in revenues annually and included the largest North American competitive residential electricity business, and the second largest competitive residential natural gas business. Over the 12 years she served as president, she and her team tripled earnings and customer count through organic growth and business acquisitions.

Now in the fourth decade and next chapter of her career, Elizabeth serves a portfolio of Boards. She currently serves on the Human Resources and Governance and Nominating Committees of the Board of Directors at Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (NYSE:HP) and has formerly served on the Audit Committee. Elizabeth also currently serves as Finance Chair of the Board of Directors of Hope Media Group and serves on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas and the Texas District of the LCMS.

Elizabeth earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in management information systems with honors from the Bauer School of Business at the University of Houston. She is also a homemaker, passionate about her role as wife, mother, and grandmother, and enjoys spending time serving others with her church and family.