Ms. Benson has nearly 20 years of experience in natural resources risk management, capital markets, and investing. She is currently a director of Apollo Infrastructure Company LLC, which owns, operates and provides capital for infrastructure assets, as well as Talen Energy Corporation, an independent power producer and infrastructure company. She previously served as a member of the Senior Advisory Board of Orion Infrastructure Capital, an infrastructure investment firm, until 2023 after serving as a Managing Director and Investment Principal from 2021 to 2022. Before joining Orion Infrastructure Capital, Ms. Benson spent 17 years in various roles at Goldman Sachs & Co. Most recently, she was a Managing Director in the Financing Group on the Structured Finance and Risk Management team in the Investment Banking Division; there she was responsible for the firm’s commodity structured finance efforts within Investment Banking. Prior to that, Ms. Benson was a Managing Director on the Energy Sales and Structuring teams in the Securities Division. She began her career at Goldman Sachs in 2004 as an analyst on the Energy team. Ms. Benson received an A.B. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 2004.