George A. Williams was appointed Chair of the ULRI Board of Trustees in spring 2024. He is a longtime member of the ULRI Board, having served as a Trustee since 2008 and as Chair of the Governance & Compensation Committee. Mr. Williams also currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of our affiliate, UL Solutions. 

Through 2023, Mr. Williams was President and CEO at PMI Energy Solutions LLC, an electrical construction and maintenance company in the utilities industry. He currently serves as a consultant and adviser to the company. 

Before joining PMI, Mr. Williams served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for El Paso Electric Company, which provides electricity to customers in West Texas and southern New Mexico. In that role, Mr. Williams oversaw the generation, construction, transmission and distribution, system operations, environmental, health and safety, and outage and emergency response operations.

Earlier in his career, he served for three years as Senior Vice President of Operations at ComEd, a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corp., which delivers electricity to approximately 3.8 million residential and business customers in northern Illinois. He has also held various executive and senior operational positions with Entergy, PPL Susquehanna, Progress Energy, and PECO Energy.

Mr. Williams has appeared three times on the prestigious 50/100 Most Important Blacks in Technology list (in 2005, 2006, and 2008) in U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine. He has been selected as one of Chicago’s Interesting Personalities in Who’s Who in Black Chicago and recognized by Diversity MBA Magazine as a 2008 Executive Leader, the Chicago United 2009 Business Leaders of Color, the American Association of Blacks in Energy as the 2014 Energy Entrepreneur of The Year, the Quad County Urban League as the 2014 Honoree of The Year, and as the 2017 & 2018 CMSDC Supplier of The Year, Tier III.

Additionally, Mr. Williams has been an active member and board member on numerous civic and professional organizations, including the American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE), Past Chairman of the Board, the Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce, Executive Committee, the Museum of Science & Industry Black Creativity Advisory Board, Former Member, the Quad County Urban League, Board of Directors, Former Member, the Tuskegee NEXT, Executive Committee, The BarTech Group Advisory Board, and the AABE Chicago Chapter Advisory Board.

Mr. Williams has a B.S. in electrical engineering from Widener University and an MBA from Saint Joseph’s University.