Mauricio Gutierrez

Mr. Gutierrez served as president and CEO of NRG Energy, America’s premier competitive power company, from December 2015 until November 2023. He joined the company in 2004 and helped build NRG from a regional wholesale generation business into a national, Fortune 500 energy company. Previously, he held the positions of Chief operating officer and Executive Vice president of commercial operations overseeing all commodities trading. He had also held several senior positions at energy merchant Dynegy and consulting firm DTP in Mexico City.

Mr. Gutierrez serves on the boards of Chipotle, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP), Hackensack Meridian Health and Drexel University. He has also been a member of the Business Roundtable, Electric Power Supply Association and a boardmember of NRG Energy and NRG Yield (Now Clearway Energy). He holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Universidad Panamericana and two master’s degrees – one in mineral economics from the Colorado School of Mines and one in petroleum economics from the French Petroleum Institute.