As enterprise risk manager for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), Deborah Luthi's day starts with a 5:45 train to San Francisco, where the organization is involved in several billion-dollar projects.
Luthi, who was named 2012 president of the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. (RIMS) effective Jan. 1, explains that SFPUC provides power, water and sewer services to not only San Francisco, but to three counties and 27 agencies in the Bay Area, which includes Silicon Valley.
All of that power is hydroelectric—i.e. green—power coming from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite. Green power is important to her organization and to its rate payers. The water is gravity fed down to more than 1,200 miles of pipeline and then into the city.
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