Deborah Hersman - NiSource Independent Director

Ms. Deborah A. P. Hersman is Director of the Company. Since January 2019, Hersman has served as Chief Safety Officer at Waymo. In this role she is responsible for field and systems safety across the company extensive testing and development programs. Prior to joining Waymo, Hersman served from 2014 to 2019 as president and CEO of the National Safety Council, a 100yearold nonprofit organization with 15, 000 member companies focused on eliminating preventable deaths at work, in homes and on the road. She led more than 12 million in new advocacy campaigns addressing the leading causes of preventable deaths. Hersman spent 10 years at the NTSB, an independent federal agency charged with determining the probable cause of transportation accidents and promoting transportation safety in the aviation, highway, marine, pipeline and railroad sectors. She was appointed an NTSB member by President George W. Bush in 2004, and appointed chairman by President Barack Obama in 2009, serving in that role until 2014. As chief executive of the agency, she led a staff of 400 and an annual budget of approximately 100 million . From 1999 to 2004, she served in a professional staff role for the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. There she played a key role in establishing a new modal administration focused on bus and truck safety. She also was a key driver of the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002, the Transportation Equity Act of the 21 st Century and the Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act. She holds a bachelor degree in international studies and political science from Virginia Tech and a master degree in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University . since 2019.