Peter A. Darbee
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
PG&E Corporation
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Peter A. Darbee is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of PG&E Corporation, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Darbee, a veteran of the energy, telecommunications, and investment banking industries joined PG&E Corporation in 1999 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc. (AFC), a telecommunications manufacturer of digital loop carrier systems. Before joining AFC, he was Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Controller of Pacific Bell.
Darbee previously was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, where he was Vice President and co-head of the company's energy and telecommunications group. He also held positions at Salomon Brothers and AT&T.
Darbee earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He has also successfully completed the Nuclear Reactor Technology Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Darbee is a Director of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company. He is a member of the Edison Electric Institute Executive Committee, serves as Co-Chairman of the EEI Committee on the Environment and is a member of the CEO board for the Clean Energy Group. Darbee also is active in numerous civic and community organizations, including The Business Council, the California Business Roundtable, the California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth, the San Francisco Committee on JOBS, and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors.
Based in San Francisco, PG&E Corporation is a $38 billion energy-based holding company that owns Pacific Gas and Electric Company, one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. The utility serves 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in Northern and Central California.