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SJW Group Appoints Marisa Joss as Corporate Secretary

2023-11-01 20:50
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 1, 2023--
SJW Group Appoints Marisa Joss as Corporate Secretary

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 1, 2023--

SJW Group (NYSE: SJW) today announced that its board of directors has appointed Marisa Joss as corporate secretary, effective October 25, 2023. She joined the company in September 2022. Joss will also continue in her previous role as deputy general counsel subsidiaries, reporting to Willie Brown, vice president and general counsel of SJW Group.

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Marisa Joss appointed Corporate Secretary of SJW Group. (Photo: Business Wire)

SJW Group Chair, President and CEO Eric W. Thornburg said, “Marisa has earned the trust and admiration of our executive team and the board of directors since joining our organization. She has more than a decade of experience with utilities, embodies our corporate culture of service, transparency and teamwork, and has been a force for good at SJW Group and our subsidiaries. We are fortunate to have Marisa’s governance and leadership expertise.”

Joss will support, serve and advise SJW Group’s board of directors and executive officers in all areas of corporate governance and compliance matters. She assumes the role of corporate secretary from Brown who will primarily focus on his responsibilities as vice president and general counsel.

Prior to joining SJW Group, Marisa served as deputy general counsel and assistant corporate secretary for Eleusis, a biotech company based in New York and London, England. She also spent over a decade at Consolidated Edison, supporting the board of directors and providing governance and compliance advice.

Joss attended the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. She also has a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School, where she was a member of the school’s Law Review and a merit scholarship recipient.

About SJW Group

SJW Group is among the largest investor-owned pure-play water and wastewater utilities in the United States, providing life-sustaining and high-quality water service to about 1.5 million people. SJW Group’s locally led and operated water utilities — San Jose Water Company in California, The Connecticut Water Company in Connecticut, The Maine Water Company in Maine, and SJWTX, Inc. (dba The Texas Water Company) in Texas — possess the financial strength, operational expertise, and technological innovation to safeguard the environment, deliver outstanding service to customers and provide opportunities to employees. SJW Group remains focused on investing in its operations, remaining actively engaged in its local communities, and delivering continued sustainable value to its shareholders. For more information about SJW Group, please visit www.sjwgroup.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Some of these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as “believes,” “expects,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “seeks,” “plans,” “projects,” “may,” “should,” “will,” or the negative of those words or other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements are only predictions and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that are difficult to predict.

These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions including, but not limited to, the following factors: (1) the effect of water, utility, environmental and other governmental policies and regulations, including regulatory actions concerning rates, authorized return on equity, authorized capital structures, capital expenditures and other decisions; (2) changes in demand for water and other services; (3) unanticipated weather conditions and changes in seasonality including those affecting water supply and customer usage; (4) the effect of the impact of climate change; (5) unexpected costs, charges or expenses; (6) our ability to successfully evaluate investments in new business and growth initiatives; (7) contamination of our water supplies and damage or failure of our water equipment and infrastructure; (8) the risk of work stoppages, strikes and other labor-related actions; (9) catastrophic events such as fires, earthquakes, explosions, floods, ice storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, terrorist acts, physical attacks, cyber-attacks, epidemic, or similar occurrences; (10) changes in general economic, political, business and financial market conditions; (11) the ability to obtain financing on favorable terms, which can be affected by various factors, including credit ratings, changes in interest rates, compliance with regulatory requirements, compliance with the terms and conditions of our outstanding indebtedness, and general market and economic conditions; and (12) legislative, and general market and economic developments. The risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of SJW Group to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

Results for a quarter are not indicative of results for a full year due to seasonality and other factors. Other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to materially differ are described in SJW Group’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance, and speak only as of the date made. SJW Group undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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CONTACT: Media Contact

Dan Meaney, APR

SJW Group Media Relations

Daniel.Meaney@ctwater.com

860.664.6016Investor Contact

Willie Brown

Vice President and General Counsel

Willie.Brown@sjwater.com

408.918.7280

KEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA

INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMMERCIAL BUILDING & REAL ESTATE ENERGY CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY UTILITIES

SOURCE: SJW Group

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