Jennifer serves on the Paragon ISG Board of Directors and is currently Chairman of the Sustainability Committee. Jennifer is a senior energy executive with over 30 years of financial and environmental strategy experience. She is the Chief Sustainability Officer for Penn America Holdings LLC, and most recently served as Vice President Strategic Growth for Baker Hughes (NYSE:BKR) Emissions Management where she led the business and commercial growth of ground and air based methane monitoring and quantification technologies, and assisted oil and gas clients with improving  their emissions profile by leveraging best practices in facility design, leak detection and repair, and corporate governance.

In early 2020 Jennifer retired from the executive leadership team at Southwestern Energy (NYSE:SWN), where she strategically led all regulatory, legislative, and environmental stewardship activity. She led Southwestern’s notable achievement of the lowest methane intensity rate of all U.S. producers, and was instrumental in the execution of contracts to sell differentiated, responsibly produced natural gas at a premium to index, the only contracts in the world of this kind to date.

Mrs. Stewart is an attorney licensed to practice in the state of Texas and is the member of the Advisory Board of Equitable Origin, a global environmental organization that drives positive change by reducing the social and environmental impact of energy development operations by fostering stakeholder dialogue and helping companies measure and benchmark their performance against the EO100™ Standard.

She is an Adjunct Law Professor at the University of Houston Law Center and previously served on the Boards of ONE Future the Natural Gas Supply Association. She has also served in leadership positions with the American Exploration and Production Counsel and the Marcellus Shale Coalition.

She has been recognized as one of Texas’ Most Powerful Women in Oil and Gas by the National Diversity Council, a Top Woman in Energy by the Houston Business Journal, and received the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of Commerce Trailblazer Award.