About Us

Mr. Rowe is a principal at NOR Solution and has 39 years of experience in the drinking water industry, including serving as the senior vice president of American Water Works Company (American Water) and president of its subsidiary, Kentucky American Water from 2011 until his retirement in 2022. During his tenure at American Water, he held multiple executive leadership roles focused on operations and long-term value creation. Mr. Rowe also has extensive water utility experience in customer service, regulatory compliance, and local stakeholder relationships. Mr. Rowe joined American Water in 1981 as a senior resident engineer. He held positions of manager eastern operations, vice president service delivery – operations southeast region, and senior vice president eastern division, and president Kentucky American and senior vice president. Mr. Rowe previously served as board chair of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, past chair of the Kentucky Governor’s Higher Education Nominating Committee, he served on the boards of Lexington Clinic and First Security Bank. He is a graduate of Western Kentucky University where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering; he also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. In addition, he completed the Thames Water Oxford Leadership and RWE International Leadership programs.

Mr. Landis currently serves as Of Counsel to 3DLaw, PLLC (formerly, 300degrees PLLC), a position he has held since 2021, and was Of Counsel to Yarmuth LLP from 2016 until 2021. Prior to these roles, Mr. Landis served as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of TerraPower, LLC from 2013 until 2015 and Senior Advisor from 2015 until 2018. Mr. Landis also served as a director of Unwired Planet, Inc. from 2013 to 2015. He was General Counsel and then Senior Legal Advisor of Intellectual Ventures from 2007 until 2012. Previously, Mr. Landis served as the General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Vulcan Inc. from 2005 to 2007, and from 1995 to 2005 was the General Counsel of AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., where he also served as Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary. From 1985 until 1995, Mr. Landis was a partner at the law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen. Mr. Landis holds a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Yale University.

Andrew Walters has been chief executive officer of H2O America (NASDAQ:HTO) since July 1, 2025, and chair of the board since February 1, 2026. He has over 27 years of experience in leadership, finance, banking, private equity, operations, and strategy roles. Before being named CEO, Walters served as the company’s chief financial officer and treasurer for 3 years.

Andrew first joined H2O America in 2014 to oversee human resources, information technology, business development and strategy. He also assisted with the management of regional operations and investor relations. In that role, Andrew developed the strategy and led the company’s announcement to purchase Connecticut Water Service Inc. (NASDAQ: CTWS) in a $1.1 billion transaction in 2019.

Prior to H2O America, Andrew served as a Managing Director at both JP Morgan in private equity infrastructure investing and Citigroup in investment banking. At Citigroup, he held leadership roles in Asia and the U.S., managing infrastructure and transportation investment banking teams across Asia Pacific and the Americas. His experience spans multiple industries and geographies, including Europe, Asia, and the Americas. During his career, he has executed over $50 billion in transactions through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, equity offerings, IPOs, private equity fundraising and debt offerings. Andrew has broad depth of experience in driving companies to best leverage technology, data, information, and cloud technologies while keeping risk areas around cyber-security and disaster recovery at the forefront. The strong foundation in finance has served him well in providing advice to management teams and boards of directors to improve operations and successfully accomplish transformative transactions that propel companies’ growth and competitive position.

Andrew holds a B.S. in Business Management and Operations from Colorado State University.

Mr. Guardino currently serves as Vice President of Government Affairs and Policy at Tarana Wireless, Inc., a position he has held since November 2022. In 2007, the Governor of California appointed Mr. Guardino as a Commissioner of the California Transportation Commission and he is serving in his fifth term. Mr. Guardino served as the Chair of the Commission from March 2024 to February 2025 and as the Vice-Chair from March 2023 to February 2024 Mr. Guardino served as a director on the board of Equilar, Inc. until 2021. Mr. Guardino served as Executive Vice President, Government Affairs and Policy at Bloom Energy Corp. from 2020 to 2022. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (“SVLG”) from 1997 to 2020 and served as Vice President from 1991 to 1995. From 2002 to 2020, he also served as Executive Director of SVLG Foundation. He also held an executive position in governmental affairs with Hewlett-Packard Corporation from 1995 to 1997. From 1987 to 1990, he served as Chief Assistant for California State Assemblyman Rusty Areias. Mr. Guardino received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from San Jose State University where he is a Distinguished Alumnus.

Ms. Wallace currently serves as a director of Sandstone Group, LLC, a position she has held since 2012. Prior to serving on the Board of the Corporation, Ms. Wallace served as a director of CTWS from 2002 until its acquisition by the Corporation in 2019, as Chair of the CTWS Board from 2017 to 2019, and as Lead Independent Director of CTWS from 2012 until 2017. She served as the Chief Executive Officer of Cooper-Atkins Corporation, a manufacturer of temperature acquisition instruments, from 1994 until 2018 and as an employee from 1991, prior to its new ownership. She served as a Board member of Middlesex Hospital, Middletown, Connecticut from 2013 until 2018. Ms. Wallace served as a director of Zygo Corporation from 2005 until 2014. Ms. Wallace received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Middlebury College.

Mr. More served as a Senior Advisor to Guggenheim Securities from 2015 to 2015, and as a Director of Clearway Energy, Inc. since 2019. He served as a Managing Director and Global Head of Utility Mergers & Acquisitions of the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley from 1996 until his retirement in 2014. Mr. More has been an investment banker since 1978 and has specialized in the utility sector since 1986. He served as a director of Saeta Yield from 2015 until 2018 and served as a director of the New York Independent System Operator from 2014 until 2016. Mr. More holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Colby College and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Kruger has over 25 years of experience in the utility industry, including serving as the Senior Vice President, Operations, Regulated Utilities, for Golden State Water Company, a subsidiary of American States Water that provides water and electric service to customers in California, from 2004 until 2021. Ms. Kruger had oversight of all functions in Regulated Utilities, including water operations, asset management, environmental quality, customer and community relations, customer service, water use efficiency, water resources, and customer growth through acquisitions of regulated water systems in California. She joined Golden State Water Company in 1992 as Manager of Quality Assurance and Water Quality. Ms. Kruger held the positions of Vice President, Water Quality, and Vice President, Customer Service. Ms. Kruger previously served as a director of the California Foundation for the Environment and Economy from 2016 to 2021. Ms. Kruger received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California-Davis, and a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of California-Irvine.

Ms. Hunt currently serves as an Executive Director of the New England States Committee on Electricity since 2009. From 2003 to 2008, she was an attorney and practiced regulatory law in Connecticut. Ms. Hunt served as a director of CTWS from 2006 until its acquisition by the Corporation in 2019. From 2001 to 2003, Ms. Hunt was Director of State and Local Government Affairs at United Technologies Corporation and before that she worked at the Southern Connecticut Gas Company in various regulatory and public policy capacities, ultimately serving as its Vice President. Ms. Hunt served as a Commissioner of the Maine Public Utilities Commission from 1995 to 1998 and as a Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control from October 1993 to 1995. Ms. Hunt served on the Living Donor Committee of the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network, the non-profit organization that manages the nation's organ transplant system under contract with the federal government, from 2015 to 2022. Ms. Hunt received a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Fairfield University and a Juris Doctor from Western New England College School of Law.

Ms. Hanley has been a Trustee of Goodwin University since 2018 and currently serves on the University’s Executive Committee and Chairs the Economic and Strategic Development Committee since 2017. Ms. Hanley has also been a Director of Enders Island, a retreat center, and a member of its finance committee since 2021. Ms. Hanley served as a director of Connecticut Water Service, Inc. ("CTWS") from 1999 until its acquisition by the Corporation in 2019. Ms. Hanley served as Director of the Valencia Society, the endowment fund for St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, which is part of Trinity Health of New England (“Trinity Health”), from 1998 to 2003, and as an officer for business development from 2003 to 2013 and liaison for government and community alliances at Trinity Health from 2013 to 2023. Ms. Hanley served as the Chair of the Board of Oak Hill School, the largest private non-profit provider of services for people with disabilities in Connecticut, from 2017 until 2021. From 1995 to 1998, she was Legal Counsel to the Governor's Office, State of Connecticut and then Director of the State's Office for Workforce Competitiveness from 1999 to 2010. Ms. Hanley received a Bachelor of Arts from UCONN and a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Trinity College and UCONN School of Law.

Ms. Klein is Principal of Klein Energy, LLC, an energy consulting company based in Austin, Texas, a position she has held since she founded the firm in 2006. Ms. Klein served on the Board of the Lower Colorado River Authority, including as Chair, from 2007 to 2013. Previously, Ms. Klein was the Chair of the Texas Public Utility Commission from 2001 to 2004. Ms. Klein also worked for KPMG Consulting (now Deloitte) where she headed the development of the Office of Government Affairs and Industry Relations in Washington, D.C., from 2000 to 2001. Ms. Klein has served on the board of Avista Corp., a publicly traded utility in the Pacific Northwest since 2010, and Diamondback Energy, a publicly traded oil and natural gas company since 2022. Ms. Klein is a Board member of Los Alamos Technical Associates, a privately held environmental remediation and engineering company, since 2022. She is also the Founder and a director of the Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute since 2015. Ms. Klein serves on the Advisory Board of Saber Partners, a financial advisory firm specializing in utility securitizations, since 2006. Ms. Klein retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a Lieutenant Colonel. Ms. Klein earned a Juris Doctor from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. She also holds a Master of Arts in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, a Bachelor of Arts in Human Biology from Stanford University, and a Master of Business Administration from MIT.