Gregory E. Abel

Gregory E. Abel, 63, joined Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Board of Directors in January 2018 as vice chair – non-insurance operations.

Mr. Abel serves as president for the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc. Recent past board service includes The Kraft Heinz Company, AEGIS Insurance Services, Inc., and AEGIS London board of directors; the Mid-Iowa Council Boy Scouts of America executive board; Drake University board of trustees and American Football Coaches Foundation board of directors. Mr. Abel also previously served as a director and vice chair of Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services Limited, a mutual insurance company.

Mark A. Hewett

Mark A. Hewett, 58, is president, CEO and director of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, where he leads a group of diverse energy businesses located in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain.

Mr. Hewett was most recently the president and CEO of BHE Pipeline Group, which is comprised of Berkshire Hathaway Energy's interstate natural gas businesses – Northern Natural Gas Company, Kern River Gas Transmission Company and BHE GT&S – as well as a minority ownership position in an Alaska storage facility and an unregulated compression services business.

Mr. Hewett joined MidAmerican Energy Company in 1987 and served in a variety of management positions until 2002, when he was named president of Northern Natural Gas. He assumed executive responsibility of Kern River in 2007, and in 2020, assumed executive responsibility of BHE GT&S.

Mr. Hewett currently serves on the board of directors for Pilot Company and previously served on the College World Series board for nearly a decade. Mr. Hewett earned a bachelor's degree in management science from Buena Vista College.