MICHAEL D. GARCIA - Corporate Board Profile

ALLIANT ENERGY CORP

Filing Date	Source Excerpt
2020-04-09	Michael D. Garcia Age: 55 Director Since: 2020 Committee Memberships: • Compensation and Personnel • Operations Summary: Mr. Garcia’s extensive operational leadership in heavy industrial industries brings valuable insight to our Board. Mr. Garcia is President of the Pulp and Paper Division of Domtar Corporation, which designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide variety of fiber-based products including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers and market pulp. He has served in this capacity since 2014. Prior to joining Domtar, Mr. Garcia was the Chief Executive Officer at EVRAZ Highveld Steel & Vanadium Co. in South Africa. Mr. Garcia has more than 25 years of international management experience in paper, steel, and aluminum manufacturing and marketing. He has been a Director of IPL and WPL since 2020.
2021-04-01	Summary: Mr. Garcia’s extensive operational leadership in heavy industrial industries brings valuable insight to our Board. Mr. Garcia was President of the Pulp and Paper Division of Domtar Corporation from April 2014 to January 2021. The Division designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide variety of fiber-based products including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers and market pulp. Prior to joining Domtar, Mr. Garcia was the Chief Executive Officer at EVRAZ Highveld Steel & Vanadium Co. in South Africa. Mr. Garcia has more than 25 years of international management experience in paper, steel, and aluminum manufacturing and marketing. He has been a Director of IPL and WPL since 2020. Committee memberships: Compensation and Personnel, Operations. 2020 Director Compensation: $245,000.
2022-03-31	Summary: Mr. Garcia brings to our Board extensive operational leadership in heavy industrial industries. Mr. Garcia was President of the Pulp and Paper Division of Domtar Corporation from April 2014 to January 2021. The Division designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a wide variety of fiber-based products including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers and market pulp. Prior to joining Domtar, Mr. Garcia was the Chief Executive Officer at EVRAZ Highveld Steel & Vanadium Co. in South Africa. Mr. Garcia has more than 25 years of international management experience in paper, steel, and aluminum manufacturing and marketing. He has been a Director of IPL and WPL since 2020. Skills and Qualifications: strategic leadership; financial acumen/literacy; operations; customer perspective; legal and regulatory; human resources/executive compensation; risk management; technology systems/cybersecurity; environmental and safety; diversity. Age: 57. Director since: 2020. Term expires in:2023. Committee memberships: Compensation and Personnel, Operations.
2023-04-04	Michael D. Garcia Age: 58 Director since: 2020 Nominated for a term expiring in: 2026 Committee memberships: Compensation and Personnel, Operations 2022 DIRECTOR COMPENSATION The following table summarizes the compensation paid to or earned by our non-employee directors during 2022. Michael D. Garcia $260,000
2024-04-02	Mr. Garcia brings to our Board extensive operational leadership in heavy industrial industries. Mr. Garcia has been the Chief Executive Officer with Algoma Steel Group Inc., since June 2022. Mr. Garcia was President of the Pulp and Paper Division of Domtar Corporation from April 2014 to January 2021. Prior to joining Domtar, Mr. Garcia was the Chief Executive Officer at EVRAZ Highveld Steel & Vanadium Co., in South Africa. Mr. Garcia has more than 25 years of international management experience in paper, steel, and aluminum manufacturing and marketing. Mr. Garcia has served on the Board of Directors of Algoma Steel Group Inc., since June 2022. He has been a Director of IPL and WPL since 2020.
2025-04-01	Mr. Garcia brings to our Board extensive operational leadership in heavy industrial industries. Mr. Garcia has been the Chief Executive Officer with Algoma Steel Group Inc. since June 2022.