Executive biographies

Sam Fiorillo leads the AUC’s External Affairs and Communications Division, a role he assumed in September 2025 after an 18‑year career with the Government of Alberta, where he progressed through increasingly senior leadership positions in the utilities and environmental policy sectors.

As executive director of external affairs and communications, Sam is responsible for overseeing the AUC’s government and industry relations, strategic communications and external engagement activities. His work supports the AUC’s commitment to transparency, public confidence and constructive relationships with government, industry and Albertans.

Prior to joining the AUC, Sam served as the executive director of strategic initiatives and rural utilities with the Government of Alberta, where he led work on rural utility co‑operative governance and large‑load data‑centre integration. Earlier in his public service career, Sam held multiple roles within the Department of Environment and Protected Areas, most notably being a key leader the development of Alberta’s Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) regime, the province’s industrial carbon‑pricing system. His extensive experience working at the intersection of policy, regulation and industry positions him well to support the AUC’s external engagement priorities.

A graduate of the University of Alberta, Sam holds a degree in environmental sciences. He brings a strong background in collaborative policy development and stakeholder engagement, supported by deep relationships across government and the utilities sector.

Parvez Khan is the executive director of Compliance and Enforcement at the AUC, a role he assumed in May 2025. He leads the division responsible for ensuring that AUC-regulated infrastructure operates safely, reliably, and in compliance with all regulatory requirements.

Before his current role, Parvez served as director, Compliance and Enforcement and as legal counsel at the AUC. His previous experience includes serving as director, legal services at ENMAX Corporation, legal counsel at the National Energy Board, and in private law firms where he practiced regulatory law and litigation.

Parvez has extensive experience across Alberta’s energy sector. In electricity, he has worked on utility rate setting, market design, reliability standards, transmission and generation projects, wholesale trading rules, and fair, efficient, and openly competitive matters. He has also handled disputes involving Power Purchase Arrangements and surface rights. In the oil and gas industry, Parvez has advised on pipeline construction and operations, including integrity programs, emergency response planning, public awareness initiatives, tolls and tariffs, common carrier issues, and LNG export matters.

Parvez is a graduate of the University of Calgary and Dalhousie University, holding degrees in arts and law. He has also completed leadership training through the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University. Over the course of his career, he has appeared before the Alberta Utilities Commission, the National Energy Board, and has represented clients in all levels of court in both Alberta and Ontario.

Darek Kogut is the executive director of Corporate Services, assuming the role on April 1, 2019. Previously leading the AUC’s strategic planning function and risk management activities and with a strong background in business disciplines, Darek leads Corporate Services through challenges and opportunities that are arising from Alberta’s evolving utilities sector, and to embrace new approaches to our work.

The AUC Corporate Services Division is tasked with managing corporate functions (finance and procurement, human resources, information technology and administrative services) in an economical and effective manner while ensuring adequate governance and control.

Darek started as a cooperative placement student with the AUC’s predecessor agency, the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board in 2003 and was involved with establishing the foundation of the AUC’s finance team in 2008. Shortly after, he moved into successively more important financial and performance monitoring and evaluation roles, before starting work directly with the chief executive in 2010.

Darek has considerable expertise in full-cycle business planning, budgeting and forecasting, as well as performance management and assessment. His career at the AUC has been built on an educational background that includes an executive master of business administration degree from Queen’s University, and a bachelor of business administration degree specializing in accounting, financial management and entrepreneurial studies from Mount Royal University in Calgary.​

Kim Macnab became executive director of the AUC Facilities Division in January 2024. She joined the AUC in 2017 as legal counsel, focused primarily on facility matters and hearings, and served as team lead within the AUC Law Division.

The AUC Facilities Division is tasked with ensuring electric generation and transmission facilities, gas transmission facilities, and associated infrastructure in Alberta are sited, built, operated and decommissioned in the public interest. This includes review of needs identification documents submitted for approval by the Alberta Electric System Operator.

A lawyer by training, Kim brings a strong background in utility regulation to the position through her AUC experience and prior private sector legal experience. Before joining the AUC, Kim worked at a national law firm on various environmental, regulatory and Indigenous legal matters, including utility rate regulation. In that capacity, she worked on matters before the National Energy Board, the Ontario Energy Board, the AUC, and the Alberta Energy Regulator. Kim also currently teaches regulated utilities law at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law.

Kim is a graduate of the University of Calgary with a master’s degree in law, a juris doctor degree in law from the University of Victoria and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Calgary.