April 30, 2025 – Unitil Corporation (NYSE:UTL) announced that its Board of Directors has elected Katherine Kountze to the Board. Preng & Associates assisted in the search and placement of this position.
Katherine Kountze has been the chief information officer of Bose Corporation (“Bose”), a consumer retail company that develops sound solutions for entertainment, home audio, aviation and automotive industries, since April 2022. Prior to Bose, Ms. Kountze served as the executive vice president and chief information officer of DentaQuest, a provider of dental and vision benefits administration, from February 2021 until March 2022. Prior to DentaQuest, Ms. Kountze served as the senior vice president and chief information officer at Eversource Energy, a provider of electric and natural gas service to customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire from 2010 until January 2022. Since 2001, Ms. Kountze served in various senior information and data security positions at The United Illuminating Company, an electric utility company in Connecticut (now a subsidiary of Avangrid, Inc.), and served as vice president and chief information officer from 2007 until 2010. Ms. Kountze currently serves on the board of directors and audit committee of Bombardier Recreation Products, Inc., a global provider of snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles, and personal watercraft, based in Quebec Canada. Ms. Kountze formerly served on the board of The Children’s Place from 2021 until 2024. She has won several awards including 2021 Top Women in Energy, 2021 Diversity Women Elite 100, Most Impactful Black Women in Boston 2021, 2017 CIO of the Year, and 2015 Women Leading Stem Award. Ms. Kountze holds a bachelor’s degree in actuarial Math and Science and a master’s degree in Computer Science.
About Unitil Corporation
Unitil Corporation provides energy for life by safely and reliably delivering electricity and natural gas in New England. We are committed to the communities we serve and to developing people, business practices, and technologies that lead to the delivery of dependable, more efficient energy. Unitil Corporation is a public utility holding company with operations in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Together, Unitil’s operating utilities serve approximately 108,500 electric customers and 88,400 natural gas customers. For more information about our people, technologies, and community involvement please visit unitil.com.
