Biography

Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee

Ms. Veltmann, 57, has served as a member of California Resources Corporation's Board of Directors since December 2021. Ms. Veltmann has 32 years of experience that includes financial leadership of publicly-listed entities, private entrepreneurial companies and global auditing firms. She has served as a director of the Board of NET Power, Inc., a clean technology company dedicated to the development of clean, reliable, and low cost energy, since 2023. Ms. Veltmann also serves as Senior Advisor of ESG Lynk, a sustainability reporting company she founded and sold, and served as CEO from 2018 to 2023. From 2021 to its acquisition in 2022, Ms. Veltmann served as board member of Structural Integrity Associates, a specialty engineering and services company providing services to the nuclear, fossil, renewables and critical infrastructure industries. From 2015 to 2018, she was Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Paragon Offshore Plc., an offshore drilling company. From 2010 to 2015, she worked in various roles including Corporate Controller and Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at Geokinetics, Inc., formerly one of the world’s largest independent land and seafloor geophysical companies. She also worked in various auditor capacities at KPMG LLP from 1995 to 2002 and before that at Arthur Andersen LLP from 1992 to 1995. Ms. Veltmann is a certified public accountant and holds the FSA Credential from the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Director Certified credential from the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). She has a BBA degree in Accounting from The University of New Mexico and is an alumna of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.