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CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP

NYSE: CWT. Canonical company identity and public leadership record.

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Alpha ID
alpha:company:effafb33-32c2-4112-9381-b371f6a32dee
SEC CIK
0001035201
Record version
vpublic-1:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 27, 2026
Newest evidence
May 3, 2026
Monitoring
Not yet monitored Details
Integrity
Not yet signed Methodology
CEO
Martin A. KropelnickiSince Feb 27, 2026
Chair
Not published
Independent
Not published10 directors published
Published claims
324 distinct sources
Evidence records
170 pinned
Source conflicts
0None open

Built from 4 distinct sources and 17 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.

CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed

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EXECUTIVE APPOINTED

Elissa Y. Ouyang executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.

EffectiveEffective Feb 27, 2026E3

Monitoring

Continuous

What the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.

  • Identityunclaimed
    Published
  • Evidencesource_reported
    Published
  • Evaluationnot_evaluated
    Published
  • MonitoringNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • AuthorityNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • Freshnesscurrent
    Published

Leadership

Evidence
RolePersonSinceStatusClaim
Vice President, Facilities, Fleet and ProcurementElissa Y. OuyangFeb 2026currentSource reportedE3
Vice President, Rates Regulatory AffairsGreg A. MillemanFeb 2026currentSource reportedE4
Vice President, Water Resources Planning and SustainabilityKenneth G. JenkinsFeb 2026currentSource reportedE6
Vice President, Chief Human Resource OfficerKris A. HamnerFeb 2026currentSource reportedE7
Chairman, President and Chief Executive OfficerMartin A. KropelnickiFeb 2026currentSource reportedE8
Senior Vice President, Corporate Services Chief Risk OfficerMichael B. LuuFeb 2026currentSource reportedE9
Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Chief of StaffMichelle R. MortensenFeb 2026currentSource reportedE11
Senior Vice President, Customer Service Chief Sustainability OfficerShannon C. DeanFeb 2026currentSource reportedE12
Senior Vice President, General Counsel Business DevelopmentShawn C. BuntingFeb 2026currentSource reportedE13
Vice President, Water Quality Environmental AffairsSophie M. JamesFeb 2026currentSource reportedE14
Vice President, Corporate Controller, Chief Accounting Officer, and Principal Accounting OfficerThomas A. ScanlonFeb 2026currentSource reportedE15
Vice President, EngineeringTodd K. PetersFeb 2026currentSource reportedE16
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and TreasurerJames P. LynchNot capturedunknownSource reportedE5
Senior Vice President, OperationsMichael S. Mares, JrNot capturedunknownSource reportedE10

Board of directors

Evidence

10 directors published. Independence determinations are not published for every director.

DirectorStatusSinceCommitteesClaim
Carol M. PottengerIndependence not published2017None publishedSource reportedE2
Gregory E. AliffIndependence not published2015None publishedSource reportedE2
Jeffrey KightlingerIndependence not published2023None publishedSource reportedE2
Lester A. SnowIndependence not published2011None publishedSource reportedE2
Martin A. KropelnickiIndependence not published20132025 Total Direct Compensation (1) $ CommitteeAchieved Short-Term At-Risk Compensation $ CommitteeSource reportedE2
Patricia K. WagnerIndependence not published2019None publishedSource reportedE2
Scott L. MorrisIndependence not published2019None publishedSource reportedE2
Shelly M. EsqueIndependence not published2018None publishedSource reportedE2
Thomas M. KrummelIndependence not published2010None publishedSource reportedE2
Yvonne A. MaldonadoIndependence not published2021None publishedSource reportedE2

Committees and risk ownership

Evidence
CommitteeChairMembersRisks assigned
2025 Total Direct Compensation (1) $ CommitteeNot publishedMartin A. KropelnickiNot described in the published record
Achieved Short-Term At-Risk Compensation $ CommitteeNot publishedMartin A. KropelnickiNot described in the published record
Committee Record2025 Total Direct Compensation (1) $ Committee: Chair not stated; Members Martin A. Kropelnicki
Source reportedE17
company:effafb33-32c2-4112-9381-b371f6a32dee:committee_record:29
Committee AppointmentMartin A. Kropelnicki: member, 2025 Total Direct Compensation (1) $ Committee
Source reportedE17
company:effafb33-32c2-4112-9381-b371f6a32dee:committee_appointment:30
Committee RecordAchieved Short-Term At-Risk Compensation $ Committee: Chair not stated; Members Martin A. Kropelnicki
Source reportedE17
company:effafb33-32c2-4112-9381-b371f6a32dee:committee_record:31
Committee AppointmentMartin A. Kropelnicki: member, Achieved Short-Term At-Risk Compensation $ Committee
Source reportedE17
company:effafb33-32c2-4112-9381-b371f6a32dee:committee_appointment:32

Control and voting power

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Authority to act

Evidence and agent registry

Who can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.

Principal executive officerMartin A. Kropelnicki, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, from Feb 27, 2026
Source reportedE8
company:effafb33-32c2-4112-9381-b371f6a32dee:leadership_role:20
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
bind
AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
agents
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
delegations

Financials and market context

Evidence
Security ListingCWT (NYSE)
Source reportedE1
company:effafb33-32c2-4112-9381-b371f6a32dee:security_listing:33
Index membershipsNo current membership is published in Alpha's tracked index universe.This is not evidence that the company is absent from every market index.
None publishedAs of Oct 27, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.

Governance and policies

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Risk, audit, and cyber

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

AI oversight and accountability

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Compensation

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Other published claims

Evidence

Published Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.

Legal NameCALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP
Source reportedE1
company:effafb33-32c2-4112-9381-b371f6a32dee:legal_name:1
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Source reportedE1
company:effafb33-32c2-4112-9381-b371f6a32dee:entity_status:3

Not yet in this record

Coverage

A gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.

  • Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
  • OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
  • FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
  • CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
  • GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
  • Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
  • AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
  • LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
  • RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
  • CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
  • AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
  • Markets externalNot reviewed. Auditors, advisors, investors and regulators form the external ecosystem.
  • Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
  • Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
  • This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.

Subject and corrections

Public-role doctrine

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Basis
Published company record built from public sources
Sources
17 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
Never published
Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
Record claimed
No
Open disputes
0
Identity ownership
unclaimed
Claiming not yet available

If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.

Evidence

Authority and rights
  1. E1
    Alpha canonical company public projection
    Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 27, 2026. Cited by 4 Claims.
    Open web
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  2. E2
    DEF 14A tm261351-2_def14a.htm
    sec proxy. Published Apr 8, 2026. Retrieved Sep 2, 2026. Cited by 10 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  3. E3
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  4. E4
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  5. E5
    CWT executive roster source
    sec filing. Published May 3, 2026. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authority not assessed
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  6. E6
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  7. E7
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  8. E8
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  9. E9
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  10. E10
    CWT executive roster source
    sec filing. Published May 3, 2026. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authority not assessed
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  11. E11
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  12. E12
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  13. E13
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  14. E14
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  15. E15
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  16. E16
    CWT 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Feb 27, 2026. Retrieved May 15, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  17. E17
    2025 Total Direct Compensation (1) $ Committee
    governance_people_committees. sec proxy. Cited by 4 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned

What changed in version public-1:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce

vpublic-1:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 27, 2026
  • Elissa Y. Ouyang executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Greg A. Milleman executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Kenneth G. Jenkins executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Kris A. Hamner executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Martin A. Kropelnicki executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Michael B. Luu executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Michelle R. Mortensen executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Shannon C. Dean executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Shawn C. Bunting executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Sophie M. James executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Thomas A. Scanlon executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Todd K. Peters executive of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2026-02-27.
  • Jeffrey Kightlinger seat on CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2023-01-01.
  • Yvonne A. Maldonado seat on CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2021-01-01.
  • Patricia K. Wagner seat on CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2019-01-01.
  • Scott L. Morris seat on CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2019-01-01.
  • Shelly M. Esque seat on CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2018-01-01.
  • Carol M. Pottenger seat on CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2017-01-01.
  • Gregory E. Aliff seat on CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2015-01-01.
  • Martin A. Kropelnicki seat on CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2013-01-01.
  • Lester A. Snow seat on CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2011-01-01.
  • Thomas M. Krummel seat on CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP, effective 2010-01-01.
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  9. Governance0
  10. Risk0
  11. AI oversight0
  12. Legal0
  13. Compensation0
  14. Other published claims3
  15. Coverage gaps17
  16. Linked people23
  17. Subject and corrections6
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    CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUPCompany
  • Elissa Y. OuyangPerson
  • Greg A. MillemanPerson
  • Kenneth G. JenkinsPerson
  • Kris A. HamnerPerson
  • Martin A. KropelnickiPerson
  • Michael B. LuuPerson
  • Michelle R. MortensenPerson
  • Shannon C. DeanPerson
  • Shawn C. BuntingPerson
  • Sophie M. JamesPerson
  • Thomas A. ScanlonPerson
  • Todd K. PetersPerson
  • James P. LynchPerson
  • Michael S. Mares, JrPerson
  • Carol M. PottengerPerson
  • Gregory E. AliffPerson
  • Jeffrey KightlingerPerson
  • Lester A. SnowPerson
  • Patricia K. WagnerPerson
  • Scott L. MorrisPerson
  • Shelly M. EsquePerson
  • Thomas M. KrummelPerson
  • Yvonne A. MaldonadoPerson
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