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John W. Ketchum
Chairman of the Board

Mr. Ketchum has served as chairman of XPLR Infrastructure, LP, since April 2022 and has been a director since August 2017. He formerly served as the partnership’s chief executive officer from March 2022 until January 2025 and as its president from March 2019 until March 2022. Mr. Ketchum also served as the partnership’s chief financial officer from August 2017 until March 2019 and as chief financial officer and a director of XPLR Infrastructure’s general partner from March 2016 to August 2017. Since March 2022, Mr. Ketchum also has served as the president and chief executive officer and a director of NextEra Energy, Inc., and was appointed chairman in July 2022. He has also served as chairman of NextEra Energy's subsidiary, Florida Power & Light Company (which has no publicly traded stock), since February 2023. From March 2019 until March 2022, Mr. Ketchum served as the president and chief executive officer of NextEra Energy Resources. Previously, Mr. Ketchum served as executive vice president, finance and chief financial officer of NextEra Energy from March 2016 to March 2019. Previously, Mr. Ketchum served as NextEra Energy’s senior vice president, finance from February 2015 to March 2016. From December 2013 to February 2015, he was senior vice president, business management and finance from December 2012 to December 2013, he was senior vice president, business management of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC. Mr. Ketchum served as vice president, general counsel & secretary of NextEra Energy Resources from June 2009 to December 2012. Mr. Ketchum joined NextEra Energy in 2002 and held various business, finance and legal roles prior to being named vice president, general counsel & secretary of NextEra Energy Resources. Prior to joining NextEra Energy in 2002, Mr. Ketchum served as corporate counsel to TECO Energy and as a corporate and securities law associate for Holland & Knight, LLP in Tampa, Florida. He began his career as a tax lawyer for Lathrop & Gage in Kansas City, Missouri, and, prior to that, worked in corporate banking.

Brian Bolster
Director

Mr. Bolster has served as a director of XPLR Infrastructure, LP, since May 2024. He served as the chief financial officer of the partnership from May 2024 to January 2025. He also serves as executive vice president, finance and chief financial officer of NextEra Energy, Inc. and as executive vice president, finance and chief financial officer of NextEra Energy’s rate-regulated utility Florida Power & Light Company since May 2024. Mr. Bolster joined the partnership from Goldman Sachs following a nearly 25-year career at the firm. He was head of natural resources in the Americas with responsibility for the administration of investment banking across power, infrastructure, chemicals, energy, metals and mining. He joined the energy and power group at Goldman Sachs as an associate in 1999, was named managing director in 2007 and became a partner in 2012. Over his nearly two-and-a-half-decade career at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Bolster played an integral role in growing the firm’s natural resources business. He worked with teams across the firm to meet the unique needs of Goldman Sachs’ power, utilities and infrastructure clients, providing seamless cross border capabilities and connecting resources and products around the world.

Susan D. Austin
Director

Ms. Austin has served as an independent director of XPLR Infrastructure, LP since August 2017. She is the chief financial and operating officer of Grace Church School. She has served as chief financial officer since September 2019 and chief operating officer since July 2023. Prior to joining Grace Church School in September 2019, Ms. Austin served as a senior managing director with Brock Capital LLC, an investment banking firm focusing on strategic and corporate advisory services, since October 2014. In addition, she served as vice chairman of Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation (“SBC”), a radio broadcasting company, until July 2017, where she served in various leadership capacities since joining that company in 2002 as vice president of strategic planning and treasurer. In 2004, Ms. Austin became president of the Sheridan Gospel Network and, in 2007, was named senior vice president and chief financial officer of SBC. She was promoted to vice chairman of SBC in July 2013. Prior to joining SBC, Ms. Austin spent 10 years in investment banking, specializing in telecommunications and media finance. Ms. Austin serves as an independent trustee or director of certain Prudential Insurance mutual funds (since 2011). She previously served on the board of XPLR Infrastructure’s general partner from February 2015 until August 2017.

Robert J. Byrne
Director

Mr. Byrne has served as an independent director of XPLR Infrastructure, LP, since 2018. He has served as a director of Masonite International Corporation (Masonite), one of the largest manufacturers of doors in the world, since June 2009 and has been chairman of the board of Masonite since July 2010. Since January 2019, Mr. Byrne has served as executive chairman of Source2, Inc., a privately held company specializing in providing recruiting assistance to middle market companies with high volume hiring needs. Previously, Mr. Byrne was the founder and served as president of Power Pro-Tech Services, Inc., which specialized in the installation, maintenance and repair of emergency power and solar photovoltaic power systems, since its founding in 2012 until it was sold in 2017 to PowerSecure. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Byrne was executive vice president and chief financial officer of EPIK Communications, a start-up telecommunications company, which merged with Progress Telecom in 2001 and was subsequently acquired by Level3 Communications. Having begun his career in investment banking, Mr. Byrne served as partner at Advent International, a global private equity firm, from 1997 to 1999 and immediately prior to that, from 1993 to 1997, served as a director of Orion Capital Partners. Mr. Byrne formerly served as an independent director of the board of XPLR Infrastructure’s general partner from July 2014 through April 2017.

Mark E. Hickson
Director

Mr. Hickson has served as a director of XPLR Infrastructure, LP, since August 2017. He previously served as executive vice president, strategy and corporate development of the partnership from August 2017 to January 2025 and its general partner from February 2017 to January 2025. He has served as executive vice president, corporate development and strategy of NextEra Energy, Inc. since May 2022 and previously served as executive vice president, corporate development, strategy, quality and integration of NextEra Energy from May 2017 to May 2022. Prior to that, he served as senior vice president, corporate development, strategy, quality and integration of NextEra Energy from May 2016 to May 2017. Mr. Hickson previously served as vice president, strategy and corporate development of XPLR Infrastructure’s general partner from March 2014 to February 2017 and senior vice president, corporate development and strategic initiatives of NextEra Energy from February 2015 to May 2016. From May 2012 to February 2015, he was vice president, strategy and corporate development of NextEra Energy. From 1997 to April 2012, Mr. Hickson served as managing director in Global Mergers and Acquisitions at Merrill Lynch & Co. He previously served on the board of XPLR Infrastructure’s general partner from February 2015 until August 2017. Mr. Hickson has served as a director of Fisker Inc., an electric vehicle automaker, since July 2020.

Peter H. Kind
Director

Mr. Kind has served as an independent director of XPLR Infrastructure, LP, since August 2017. He is executive director of Energy Infrastructure Advocates LLC, an independent financial and strategic advisory firm. From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Kind was a senior managing director of Macquarie Capital, an investment banking firm. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Kind was a managing director of Bank of America Securities and group head of Power and Utility Investment Banking. Mr. Kind, a certified public accountant (“CPA”), also has experience in the audit of large public energy companies. He served as a director and chairman of the audit committee of the general partner of Enable Midstream Partners, LP from February 2014 until December 2021. He previously served on the board of XPLR Infrastructure’s general partner from July 2014 until August 2017.

Rebecca J. Kujawa
Director

Mrs. Kujawa has served as a director of XPLR Infrastructure, LP, since March 2019. She formerly served as president of the partnership and its general partner since March 2022. She served as a director of the general partner from March 2019 until March 2022. She previously served as chief financial officer of the partnership and its general partner from March 2019 until March 2022. Mrs. Kujawa has served as president and chief executive officer of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, since March 2022. She served as executive vice president, finance and chief financial officer of NextEra Energy, Inc. from March 2019 until March 2022. Previously, she was vice president, business management of NextEra Energy Resources from 2012 until March 2019. Mrs. Kujawa joined NextEra Energy in 2007 and has held various business and finance roles, including as the director of investor relations for NextEra Energy. Mrs. Kujawa also currently serves as a director of Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited (NEIL), an industry mutual insurance company. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.