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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
Effective as of November 3, 2022, James P. Lynch, who was the Chief Accounting Officer of SJW Group (the “Company”), is no longer employed by the Company nor of its subsidiaries.
Andrew F. Walters, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, will serve as the principal accounting officer. Mr. Walters has served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, San Jose Water Company (“SJWC”), SJW Land Company, and SJWTX, Inc. since January 2022. Mr. Walters served as Chief Corporate Development Officer and Integration Executive of the Company from November 2019 until January 2022 and previously served as Chief Administrative Officer of SJWC since January 31, 2014. Mr. Walters is also currently the Vice President of Business Planning of Connecticut Water Service, Inc. and Connecticut Water Company as of November 7, 2019. Prior to joining SJWC in 2014, Mr. Walters was a managing director and a senior acquisitions officer in the Infrastructure Investments Group of JP Morgan Asset Management from January 2009 to June 2013. Prior to this, Mr. Walters served in the Investment Banking Division of Citigroup as managing director and head of infrastructure for the Americas and in other roles focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising for clients, since 1993.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| SJW GROUP | ||||||
| Date: November 4, 2022 | /s/ Andrew Walters | |||||
| Andrew Walters, Chief Financial Officer | ||||||