Biography
Barbara Duganier
Audit Committee Chair
CenterPoint Energy
Current public company boards: CenterPoint Energy, Texas Pacific Land Corporation, Arcadis
Prior public company boards: Buckeye Partners, HCC Insurance, MRC Global, Inc., Noble Energy
Executive Experience: Barbara Duganier currently serves on the boards of CenterPoint Energy (NYSE: CNP), an electric transmission and distribution, natural gas distribution and energy services company, where she chairs the audit committee and serves on the governance, environmental and sustainability committee, Texas Pacific Land Corporation (NYSE: TPL), an oil and gas royalty and water resources company, where she chairs the compensation committee and serves on the audit committee and strategic acquisitions committee, and on the board of Arcadis NV (Euronext: ARCAD) where she serves on the sustainability committee and the audit and risk committee. Barbara also serves on the boards of two private companies: McDermott International, Ltd. (since 2020), a fully integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry, where she chairs the audit committee and serves on the nominating and governance committee; and Pattern Energy Group LP (since 2020), a private renewable energy company focused on wind, solar, transmission and storage where she chairs the audit committee. Barbara previously served on the boards of the general partner of Buckeye Partners, L.P. (NYSE: BPL), a midstream oil and gas master limited partnership, where she chaired the audit committee and served on the compensation committee until the company’s sale in November 2019; of Noble Energy (NASDAQ: NBL), an exploration and production company, where she served as a member of the audit and nominating and governance committees until the company’s sale in October 2020; of West Monroe Partners, a management and technology consulting firm, where she was the lead independent director and nominating and governance committee chair until the sale of the company in November 2021; and of MRC Global Inc. (NYSE: MRC) (2015 – 2024), an industrial distributor of pipe, valves and other related products and services to the energy industry, where she chaired the ESG and enterprise risk committee and audit committee. She is also a former director and member of the enterprise and risk oversight and compensation committees of HCC Insurance Holdings, a property and casualty insurance underwriter, which was sold in 2015.
From 2004 to 2013, Barbara was a managing director at Accenture, a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital technology, and operations. She held various leadership and management positions in Accenture’s outsourcing business, including Global Chief Strategy Officer and Global Growth and Offering Development Lead. A year prior to joining Accenture, she served as an independent consultant to Duke Energy North America.
Additional information: From 1979 to 2002, Barbara, who is a licensed certified public accountant in the State of Texas, worked at Arthur Andersen LLP, where she served as an auditor and financial consultant, as well as in various leadership and management roles, including Global Chief Financial Officer of Andersen Worldwide. She also serves on the board of John Carroll University, and is the past chairperson of the National Association of Corporate Directors Texas TriCities (NACD TTC) board of directors. She holds the NACD Director Certification, is an NACD Leadership Fellow, and holds the CERT Cybersecurity Oversight Certification from Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a member of the NACD’s Board Advisory Services faculty.