Commissioners and Staff

Dan Goldner was appointed to serve as Chair of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission in November 2021. Dan's term on the Commission concludes on July 1, 2025. Dan comes to the PUC after more than 30 years in high technology. Dan started his career as a design engineer and went on to hold executive leadership roles in finance, accounting, operations, marketing, engineering, and program management. He has extensive experience in finance and acquisition activities. After working as the Controller for a California based acquisition, he was Vice President, growing a high performance analog semiconductor business from $800 million to $3 billion in four years. He then spent three years in Oslo, Norway with a high-tech start-up acquisition and was responsible for utility related product development and applications. After repatriating to Manchester in 2010, he managed next generation technology development for a $1 billion power electronics business. Dan retired from the semiconductor business in 2019 and since then has been focused on growing the family farming business.

Commissioner Goldner holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

Pradip Chattopadhyay was appointed to serve as a Commissioner of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission in December 2021. Pradip’s term on the Commission concludes on July 1, 2027. Pradip has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington, and has a M.Sc in Economics from the University of Calcutta, India. He has been involved in energy matters for the last 22 years, of which he has spent working almost 20 years in NH. He has previously worked as a Senior Advisor with the NHPUC, the Assistant Consumer Advocate with the NH Office of the Consumer Advocate, a Utility Analyst with NHPUC, and briefly with Liberty Utilities in NH. He has also worked in Minnesota with the state’s Attorney General’s Office, and in India as a consultant as well as an economist with the Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission. He has some peer reviewed publications in energy policy and International economics. He has provided numerous testimonies on cost of capital, and other gas and electric matters before NHPUC and Minnesota’s PUC. He has extensive experience working on regional electric matters and has participated on behalf of the NHPUC and NHOCA in many ISO-NE, NEPOOL and FERC meetings and proceedings. Pradip has also taught economics as an Adjunct Faculty at Southern New Hampshire University since 2005.

Attorney Mark W. Dell’Orfano was appointed to the Public Utilities Commission in November 2024 by Governor Christopher T. Sununu.

Before joining the Commission, Commissioner Dell’Orfano served as an Assistant Attorney General at the New Hampshire Department of Justice, where he was legal counsel to several executive branch agencies and represented the State in contested administrative proceedings and civil litigation, including federal multistate energy and environmental litigation.

Before State service, Commissioner Dell’Orfano was a member of the environment and energy practice at Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, P.A., where he advised and represented a variety of commercial energy clients, including clean and conventional energy developers, independent power producers, energy marketers, petroleum distributors, banks and private equity investors, and an electric cooperative. Before joining Sheehan Phinney, Commissioner Dell’Orfano was general counsel at Sector Capital Group, where he advised and represented the firm and its domestic and international affiliates in business, energy, natural resource, and U.S. tax matters. Prior to Sector, he held positions at Genuity – a Verizon subsidiary; General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (GTE); and Price Waterhouse, LLP. He began his energy career as a seasonal wood fuel technician at the former Bio Energy powerplant in W. Hopkinton, N.H.

Commissioner Dell’Orfano is admitted to practice law in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and before several Federal trial and appellate courts. He is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Energy Bar Association, and the Power and Energy Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Commissioner Dell’Orfano is a graduate of Manchester High School West. He received his undergraduate education at Purdue University (B.Sc.). Subsequently, he earned his M.B.A. from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and his law degree from the Massachusetts School of Law. Commissioner Dell’Orfano and his family reside in Bedford, N.H.