Sarah M. Barpoulis SemGroup Corporation
Board of Directors
Sarah M. Barpoulis has served as a director of SemGroup® Corporation since November 2009, pursuant to the SemGroup plan of reorganization. She currently serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees of the Board of Directors. Since 2003, she has provided asset management and advisory services to the merchant energy sector through Interim Energy Solutions, LLC, a company she founded. From 1991 to February 2003, Barpoulis was employed with PG&E National Energy Group, Inc., now known as National Energy & Gas Transmission, Inc. (“National Energy”), a company that developed, built, owned and operated electric generating and natural gas pipeline facilities and provided energy trading, marketing and risk management services, last serving as senior vice president, commercial operations and trading from 2000. In July 2003, National Energy and certain of its affiliates voluntarily filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland and emerged from bankruptcy in October 2004 to sell its major operating business units pursuant to its court-approved plan of reorganization. Barpoulis served from 2006 to 2008 as a director of Reliant Energy, Inc., where she served on the risk and financial oversight committee and compensation committee. Barpoulis has a master’s degree in business administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a bachelor of science and engineering degree from Princeton University.
Barpoulis provides the Board with valuable executive-level leadership experience and risk management and business planning expertise obtained from her consulting services provided through Interim Energy Solutions, LLC and her varied roles of increasing responsibility with National Energy. She also has received a Certificate of Director Education from the NACD. Her risk management expertise, background and prior board and work experience allow her to be a valuable contributor to the Board.