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Unitil UTL

US equityMarket cap rank #3281Utilities - Diversified
$51.77 +$0.59 (+1.15%)
Pre-market · Oct 8, 7:00 am ET · After hours $51.77 0.00%
Open$51.10
Prev close$51.18
Day range$50.88 – $51.97
Volume107.3K
Market cap$944.11M
P/E (TTM)16.5
Dividend yield3.57%
Founded1984
CEOMr. Thomas P. Meissner,Jr
Employees595
HeadquartersHampton, United States of America
Websitewww.unitil.com

Revenue per employee

$795.7K$901.6K$1.0M$1.1MDec '18Dec '21Dec '25

595 employees as of 2025/FY (+9.4% YoY). Revenue per employee is total revenue divided by headcount — a rough productivity gauge, not a per-worker pay figure.

Management team

Thomas P. Meissner,Jr Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Age 63 · Total comp. $3,189,116.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Mr. Meissner has been chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Unitil since April 2018. He also served as president from April 2018 until May 2023. Previously, Mr. Meissner held the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer of the Company from 2005 until April 2018. Mr. Meissner also served as Unitil's senior vice president of operations from 2003 through 2005, and as director of engineering from 1998 until 2003. Mr. Meissner began his career with Unitil in 1994. Prior to joining Unitil, he held a number of engineering and operations positions at Public Service Company of New Hampshire, a predecessor company of Eversource Energy, a multi-state gas and electric utility headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Meissner also serves as a director of the Edison Electric Institute since 2018 and as a director of the American Gas Association since 2022.

Robert B. Hevert President and Chief Administrative Officer
Age 65 · Total comp. $1,614,866.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Mr. Hevert has been Unitil's president and chief administrative officer since May 2023. Mr. Hevert previously served as senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer from July 2020 until May 2023. Prior to joining Unitil, Mr. Hevert most recently served as partner and practice area leader of rates, regulation and planning at ScottMadden, Inc. (ScottMadden) where he practiced since June 2016. Prior to ScottMadden, Mr. Hevert was founder and managing partner of Sussex Economic Advisors, LLC from 2012 until it was acquired by ScottMadden in June 2016, and also president of Concentric Energy Advisors, Inc. from 2002 until 2012. Mr. Hevert also served in several senior consulting and management positions prior to 2002. Mr. Hevert is a CFA Charterholder.

Daniel J. Hurstak Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Age 45 · Total comp. $998,997.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Mr. Hurstak has been Unitil's senior vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer since May 2023. Mr. Hurstak previously served as chief accounting officer and controller from March 2020 until May 2023. Prior to joining Unitil, Mr. Hurstak served as vice president, corporate accounting, at Fidelity Investments (Fidelity) from June 2016 until February 2020. Prior to Fidelity, Mr. Hurstak was a senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) from September 2009 until May 2016, and also began his career at PwC in September 2001. Mr. Hurstak is a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Christopher J LeBlanc Senior Vice President, Gas Operations
Age 59 · Total comp. $863,281.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Mr. LeBlanc has been Unitil's senior vice president of gas operations since July 2024, and also served as vice president from January 2017 until July 2024. Mr. LeBlanc joined Unitil in 2000 and served as director of gas operations from 2008 until January 2017, and in several other gas operations management positions from 2000 until 2008.

Justin Eisfeller Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer
Age 59 · Total comp. $782,885.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Mr. Eisfeller has been Unitil's Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer since November 2025. Mr. Eisfeller joined Unitil in 2002 and served as director of engineering from 2003 through 2008, as director of energy measurement and control from 2009 through 2016, and as vice president and chief technology officer from 2017 through October 2025. Prior to joining Unitil, Mr. Eisfeller had 15 years' experience as an engineer and manager. Mr. Eisfeller is a registered professional engineer in New Hampshire.

Mark H. Collin Independent Director
Age 67 · Total comp. $482,671.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Mr. Collin served as senior vice president of the Company from February 2003 until his retirement from the Company on May 1, 2019. Mr. Collin also served as the Company's chief financial officer and treasurer from 2003 and 1998, respectively, until March 2019, when he formally stepped down from those executive leadership positions as part of the Company's long-term succession plan, as well as in connection with his planned retirement in May 2019. Mr. Collin joined Unitil in 1988 and served as the Company's vice president of finance from 1995 until 2003. Prior to joining Unitil in 1988, Mr. Collin was an economist and utility analyst for the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission. Mr. Collin also currently serves on the Board of Directors of New Hampshire PBS.

Michael B. Green Lead Independent Director
Age 76 · Total comp. $238,077.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Michael B. Green Mr. Green served as the president and chief executive officer of Capital Region Health Care and Concord Hospital, Concord, New Hampshire, from 1992 until his retirement in January 2014. In addition, Mr. Green formerly served as a trustee of New Hampshire Mutual Bancorp including membership on the investment and compensation committees, Concord, New Hampshire; and as vice chairman of Merrimack County Savings Bank, Concord, New Hampshire, including membership on the investment and audit committees until 2022. Mr. Green also formerly served as a director of Concord General Mutual Insurance Company, Concord, New Hampshire until March 2019, as well as a director of the Foundation for Healthy Communities, Concord, New Hampshire. Director Since: June 2001 Age: 75 Class: II End of Current Term: 2026 Lead Director Board Committees: Audit, Executive (chair), Nominating and Governance Other Public Company Boards: None Individual Skills and Expertise: Accounting C-Suite Finance Governance Labor/Human Capital Management Risk Oversight Strategic Planning Diversity: Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: White / Caucasian. Mr. Green will retire from the Board on April 29, 2026. He will not stand for re-election at the Annual Meeting.

Justine Vogel Independent Director
Age 57 · Total comp. $222,077.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Ms. Vogel has been the president and chief executive officer of The RiverWoods Group, Exeter, New Hampshire, the parent organization of charitable not-for-profit continuing care retirement communities, since 2011. Prior to The RiverWoods Group, Ms. Vogel was the president and chief executive officer of RiverWoods Exeter from 2007 until 2011, and chief operating officer of RiverWoods Exeter from 2005 until 2007. Ms. Vogel began her professional career in auditing and technical accounting roles, working at Arthur Anderson in New Jersey and Ernst & Young and Chubb Life Insurance in New Hampshire. Ms. Vogel is a certified public accountant in the state of New Jersey. She also currently serves as the vice chair of the Board of Directors and as the chair on the Governance Committee for Caring Communities, a reciprocal risk retention group serving senior living providers, and serves as Treasurer of the Board of Directors for LeadingAge, the national association for nonprofit aging service providers. Ms. Vogel also served on the Board of Directors for City Year NH until 2019, and on the Board of Directors of LeadingAge Maine & New Hampshire until 2017.

David A. Whiteley Independent Director
Age 69 · Total comp. $222,077.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Mr. Whiteley has been the owner of Whiteley BPS Planning Ventures LLC, St. Louis, Missouri, a private consulting firm specializing in utility planning, operations, and management, since 2009. While operating his private consulting firm, he also served as the executive director of the Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative from 2011 through 2018. Mr. Whiteley served as an executive vice president of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) from 2007 to 2009. Prior to NERC, Mr. Whiteley served as senior vice president-Energy Delivery Services for Ameren Corporation, a multi-state electric and gas utility, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri from 2005 to 2007, and as senior vice president-Energy Delivery, from 2003 to 2005. Mr. Whiteley started his employment at Ameren Corporation's predecessor company, Union Electric Company, in 1978.

Winfield S. Brown Independent Director
Age 59 · Total comp. $222,077.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Mr. Brown currently serves as the president of St. Mary's Health System in Lewiston, Maine, and senior vice president of Covenant Health in Andover, Massachusetts. Mr. Brown previously served as the interim chief executive officer of Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, a non-profit healthcare organization and member of Dartmouth Health from July 2023 until September 2024. Mr. Brown formerly served as president and CEO of Heywood Healthcare (Heywood), Gardner, Massachusetts, a non-profit healthcare organization, from January 2013 until June 2023, and as president and CEO of Heywood Hospital, Gardner, Massachusetts, from 2011 until 2013. Preceding his roles at Heywood, Mr. Brown served as vice president of administration at Lowell General Hospital in Lowell, Massachusetts, vice president of marketing, planning and development at Northern Berkshire Healthcare in North Adams, Massachusetts, and executive director and vice president of St. Mary's Foundation - St. Mary's Health System in Lewiston, Maine. Mr. Brown is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Mr. Brown also served as a board member of the Massachusetts Hospital Association until June 2023, the United Way of North Central Massachusetts until October 2023, a board member and chair of the Boys and Girls Club of Fitchburg and Leominster in Massachusetts until September 2023, and as a board member of Fidelity Cooperative Bank until March 2025.

Dr. Neveen F. Awad Independent Director
Age 50 · Total comp. $210,077.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Dr. Awad is a senior partner and managing director of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm. She has been the leader of the BCG office in Detroit, Michigan, since 2011. Prior to consulting, Dr. Awad was an assistant professor at the Wayne State University School of Business, a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. She is active in public speaking engagements, including TED Talks, as a strategic technology innovation leader.

Anne L. Alonzo Independent Director
Age 67 · Total comp. $210,077.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Ms. Alonzo has served as Principal of Alonzo Advisory LLC, focused on sustainability, climate change, regenerative agriculture, regulatory, public policy, and other advisory services since November 2021. She also serves on the Board of GRUMA, S.A.B. de C.V., a global tortilla and corn flour producer, headquartered in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico, since April 2025. Ms. Alonzo formerly served as senior vice president, external affairs, and chief sustainability officer of Corteva AgriScience (Corteva), a publicly traded agricultural chemical and seed company from March 2020 until her retirement in August 2021. Prior to joining Corteva, Ms. Alonzo was the president and chief executive officer and a member of the Board Executive Committee of the American Egg Board from January 2016 until April 2020. Prior to 2016, Ms. Alonzo served in various senior leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S Environmental Protection Agency, and Kraft Foods, Inc. (now Mondelez International, Inc.). Since July 2022, Ms. Alonzo has served as a Board member of Feeding America, the largest charity in the United States. Additionally, Ms. Alonzo is a Fellow at the National Association of Corporate Directors and certified in Climate Leadership by the Diligent Institute. From December 2021 through January 2026, Ms. Alonzo served on the Board, and as a member of the Audit and Nominating Governance Committee(s), at PotlatchDeltic Corporation, a leading timberland real estate investment trust (REIT) company. Ms. Alonzo also served on the Advisory Board of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance (a recognized thought leader in the corporate governance field) at the University of Delaware from September 2023 until June 2025.

Suzanne M. Foster Independent Director
Age 56 · Total comp. $210,077.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Ms. Foster has been the chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of AdaptHealth Corp. (AdaptHealth), a national leading provider of patient-centered, healthcare-at-home solutions including home medical equipment, medical supplies, and related services, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, since May 2024. Prior to AdaptHealth, Ms. Foster served as president of Beckman Coulter Life Sciences for Danaher Corporation, a global science and technology innovation company, Washington, DC, from April 2022 until May 2024. Ms. Foster also served as president of At Home Solutions for Cardinal Health, Dublin, Ohio, a global, integrated healthcare services and products company, from January 2020 until April 2022, as president of Stanley Healthcare, Waltham, Massachusetts, a healthcare technology operating division of Stanley Black & Decker, from April 2018 until January 2020, and as a general manager of Medtronic Advanced Energy (Medtronic), a medical device company, from August 2011 until March 2018. Ms. Foster formerly served as vice president of Global Business Operations at Salient Surgical Technologies, a medical device company later acquired by Medtronic. She was also formerly employed as an attorney at the law firms of Holland & Knight and Wiggin & Nourie, and served as vice president of Legal & Compliance for the Elliot Health System. In 2017, Ms. Foster was appointed to the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees by then New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. She also currently serves as a board member of Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Inc. a medical technology company based in Toronto, Canada, since 2018, and on multiple boards of private medical technology companies. Other Public Company Boards: Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Inc.; AdaptHealth Corp.

Jane R. Lewis-Raymond Independent Director
Age 59 · Total comp. $203,077.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Ms. Lewis-Raymond is the principal of Hilltop Strategies (Hilltop) providing strategic consulting services to senior executives in a variety of industries since July 2019. At Hilltop, she brings vast experience as a natural gas utility executive, including deep knowledge of corporate governance, community relations, cybersecurity oversight, as well as data privacy, safety, and corporate ESG programs. Prior to Hilltop, Ms. Lewis-Raymond was a partner in the corporate and energy groups at the firm of Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein (Parker Poe) from March 2017 until July 2019. Prior to Parker Poe, she served as senior vice president and chief legal, compliance, and external relations officer at Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. (Piedmont) from 2006 to 2016, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Duke Energy. Prior to Piedmont, she held the position of vice president of regulatory affairs at the American Gas Association from 2004 to 2006, having joined the association in 1996. Ms. Lewis-Raymond also currently serves on the Board of Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.

Katherine Kountze Independent Director
Age 63 · Total comp. $135,445.00 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Ms. 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. Prior to Eversource, Ms. Kountze served for nine years in various senior information technology roles 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 2008 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. Other Public Company Boards: Bombardier Recreation Products Inc.

Todd R. Diggins Chief Accounting Officer and Controller
Age 51 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Mr. Diggins has been Unitil's chief accounting officer and controller since May 2023. Mr. Diggins also served as director of finance from July 2018 until May 2023, and treasurer of Unitil's subsidiary companies from April 2020 through May 2023. Mr. Diggins also held the positions of corporate accounting manager, senior accountant, and several other positions within the accounting group since joining Unitil in May of 1998. Mr. Diggins is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New Hampshire.

Carleton B. Simpson Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Age 36 · As of 26 Mar 2026

Mr. Simpson has been Unitil's senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary since January 2026. Mr. Simpson previously served as senior vice president, general counsel from September 2025 until December 2025 and vice president, energy transformation at the Company's Massachusetts subsidiary, Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company, from January 2025 until August 2025. Mr. Simpson previously worked for the Company from June 2013 through November 2021 in a variety of roles including engineering, regulatory, external and government affairs, and legal. From December 2021 until August 2024, Mr. Simpson served as Commissioner of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission. Mr. Simpson is a member in good standing in the New Hampshire Bar and the bar for the Federal District of New Hampshire.

From SEC filings, via Futu. Compensation is total reported pay for the most recent fiscal year on file, not base salary alone.

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