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UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

In re: 

PG&E CORPORATION,

- and -

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC 

COMPANY,

Debtors.

 Affects PG&E Corporation

 Affects Pacific Gas and Electric Company

 Affects both Debtors

* All papers shall be filed in the Lead Case,

No. 19-30088 (DM).

Chapter 11 

Case No. 19-30088 (DM) 

(Jointly Administered) 

Objection Deadline June 19, 2019 @ 4:00 p.m. (ET) 

MONTHLY STAFFING AND COMPENSATION REPORT OF 

AP SERVICES, LLC FOR THE PERIOD

FROM MARCH 1, 2019 THROUGH MARCH 31, 2019 

In accordance with the Order Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 363(b) and 105(a) Authorizing the 

Debtors to Employ and Retain AP Services, LLC to provide a Chief Restructuring Officer, Deputy 

Chief Restructuring Officer and additional personnel for the Debtors Nunc Pro Tunc to the Petition 

Date [Docket No. 1299], AP Services, LLC (“APS”) hereby submits its Monthly Staffing and 

Compensation Report for the period of March 1, 2019 through March 31, 2019 (the “Compensation 

Period”). 

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During the Compensation Period, APS incurred $3,929,388.50 in fees and $388,670.53 in 

expenses for a total amount of $4,318,059.03, as reflected in the attached exhibits.

Dated: May 28, 2019 AP SERVICES, LLC

865 S Figueroa Street, Suite 2310

Los Angeles, CA 90017

By: John Boken

 Managing Director

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EXHIBITS

Annexed hereto are the following exhibits for the Monthly Staffing and Compensation Report of AP 

Services, LLC for the Period from March 1, 2019 through March 31, 2019

Exhibit A - Summary of Compensation and Expenses

Exhibit B - Summary of Fees and Hours by Professionals and 

 Description of Responsibilities of Professionals

Exhibit C - Summary of Expenses

 

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Professional Fees $ 4,589,539.00

Less 100% Travel Fees* (660,150.50)

Total Current Fees 3,929,388.50

Expenses 388,670.53

Total Invoice $ 4,318,059.03

*AP Services, LLC ("APS") has engaged in discussions with the United States Trustee with regard to a 

reasonable amount of compensation for non-working travel. Pending the resolution of such discussions, APS 

has not included any non-working travel charges in this Monthly Staffing and Compensation Report. APS 

is, therefore, submitting this Monthly Staffing and Compensation Report at this time, without prejudice to 

seeking compensation for such non-working travel in a subsequent filing.

Exhibit A

AP SERVICES, LLC

Summary of Compensation and Expenses – Pacific Gas and Electric Company, et al.

For the Period March 1, 2019 through March 31, 2019

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Exhibit B

AP SERVICES, LLC

Summary of Fees and Hours by Professionals and 

Description of Responsibilities of Professionals – Pacific Gas and Electric Company, et al.

For the Period March 1, 2019 through March 31, 2019

3/1/2019 - 3/31/2019

PROFESSIONAL APS TITLE RESPONSIBILITIES RATE HOURS FEES

James A Mesterharm Managing Director Develop and implement financial restructuring 

strategies; serve as lead AP Services resource on 

bankruptcy and restructuring issues; serve as key 

interface with creditor constituencies and other 

principal parties in interest; assist counsel in 

preparing and providing support for case 

motions, including testimony in bankruptcy 

court; provide transactional guidance, direction, 

and oversight; direct AP Services team and 

management on restructuring workstreams; assist 

management and advisors in development and 

negotiation of Plan of Reorganization

$1,140 117.6 $ 134,064.00 

John Boken Managing Director Develop and implement financial and operational 

restructuring strategies; serve as lead AP 

Services resource and interface with creditor 

advisors, creditor constituencies, contract 

counterparties, and other principal parties in 

interest; provide operational guidance, direction, 

and oversight; oversee AP Services team and 

management in financing, liquidity management, 

operational improvement, diligence support, 

contract assessment, and other key restructuring 

workstreams; oversee development of business 

plan and long-term forecast; coordinate with 

counsel on support for case motions, including 

testimony in bankruptcy court; assist 

management and advisors in development and 

negotiation of Plan of Reorganization

$1,140 274.0 312,360.00 

Giacomo Cantu Managing Director Advise of various matters in connection with the 

cost reduction workstream

$1,140 6.8 7,752.00 

David R Hindman Managing Director Develop and implement operational restructuring 

and cost reduction strategies; serve as lead AP 

Services resource on energy procurement, 

contract portfolio, and counterparty management 

issues; lead AP Services team and management 

in identification and implementation of cost 

efficiency opportunities across all business units 

and support functions; assist in interface, 

communications, and diligence support with 

creditor advisors, creditor constituencies, 

contract counterparties, and other principal 

parties in interest; assist in development of 

business plan and long-term forecast, 

assumptions, and support

$1,015 156.0 158,340.00 

Robb C McWilliams Managing Director Direct engagement activities and priorities of 

working teams across multiple work streams and 

advise on various matters/issues related to 

segregation of the prepetition and post petition 

liabilities, Monthly Operating Reports, 

Schedules of Assets and Liabilities, Reclamation 

claims, 503(b)(9) claims. 

$1,015 132.0 133,980.00 

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Eva Anderson Director Manage and facilitate development of responses 

to all diligence requests submitted by the Official 

Committee advisors and ad hoc creditor advisors. 

Support development of presentation materials 

for extensive on-site creditor advisor 

management meetings. Support Company's real 

estate team on bankruptcy-related owned and 

leased property issues.

$945 314.2 296,919.00 

John Kaplan Director Support and oversee cost reduction workstream 

with specific focus on the development of a 

portfolio of initiatives that will meet cost 

reduction targets.

$945 217.9 205,915.50 

Phillip R Croom Director Support cost reduction workstream with specific 

focus on external spend related to MRO, 

aviation, fleet and freight. Analyze spend data, 

interview leaders and key stakeholders to 

develop hypotheses on cost reduction 

opportunities. Validate (or disprove) hypotheses 

to develop high confidence cost reduction 

opportunities in the areas listed above.

$945 217.7 205,726.50 

Steven A Aschkenase Director Develop modified people governance process to 

enable ongoing day to day operation while 

retaining visibility to cost impact. Define 

organization hygiene improvement opportunities. 

Assess prior affordability initiatives to identify 

those with greatest potential on a go-forward 

basis.

$945 217.6 205,632.00 

Subhash B Gullapalli Director Support cost reduction workstream with specific 

focus on executing cost reduction initiatives in 

the areas of IT (software, hardware, services), 

professional services, business and management 

consulting, staff augmentation and marketing & 

communications.

$945 225.8 213,381.00 

Ken Chan Director Support cost reduction workstream activities. 

Lead overall vegetation management cost 

reduction (wildfire, wood removal, technology 

productivity improvement, contract negotiation, 

supply strategy). Co-lead fleet management cost 

reduction (outsourcing, specs rationalization, 

process improvement, demand management). 

Assist electrical operations contracting and 

process improvement.

$945 141.6 133,812.00 

Bradley Hunter Director Lead liquidity and cash management 

workstreams. Manage development and 

maintenance of cash forecast and actual tracking 

models. Coordinate production of periodic cash 

forecast reports for internal and external 

reporting. Participate in regular meetings with 

management to review cash flow trends and 

liquidity status.

$895 152.8 136,756.00 

Erik Bell Director Support the operation of the Spend Governance 

Committee. Participate in cost reduction efforts 

around the Gas Operations and Power 

Generation groups including the identification 

and evaluation of specific opportunities to reduce 

or defer expenditures in an effort to lower 

customer energy rates.

$895 194.7 174,256.50 

John C Labella Director Lead and manage team of PG&E, AP Services 

and temporary staffing in the review all invoices 

using the 3-way match process for a 

determination if services or goods provided were 

in the pre or post-petition period. Design and 

implement semi-automated invoice review 

processes and other processes to expedite 

reviews as necessary. Provide support to PG&E 

accounting group in identifying and aggregating 

financial data for preparation of the Monthly 

Operating reports for January and February.

$895 189.4 169,513.00 

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Denise Lorenzo Director Design and manage process for submitting, 

approving and processing prepetition payments 

authorized under various first day motions 

(Supplier Management Committee). Design and 

manage process for reporting of executed 

prepetition payments and maintaining controls to 

ensure compliance with granted first day 

authority. Design and manage process for 

vetting and approving Operational Integrity 

Supplier designations. 

$830 231.4 192,062.00 

Michelle R Repko Director Develop and implement accounts payable 

segregation controls for liabilities managed and 

paid through certain channels. Advise company 

on matters related to authorized prepetition 

payments under various first day motion 

authority and support prepetition payment 

reporting and compliance requirements. Lead 

cross-functional effort with AP Services and 

company team members in collecting and 

developing content to be reported in the 

Schedules of Assets and Liabilities. 

$830 193.5 160,605.00 

Brent Robison Director Develop process for managing and resolving 

reclamation demands by working with company 

personnel to reconcile demands in advance of 

filing reclamation report with the court. Work 

with company personnel to track information 

received on mechanic's liens and assist with 

resolving issues related to liens.

$775 187.6 145,390.00 

Eric J Powell Director Lead Construction Services and Engineering cost 

savings assessment which includes external 

sourcing labor and non-labor work and internal 

work and resource optimization; coordinate 

interaction and work across the electric and gas 

lines of businesses

$775 185.0 143,375.00 

Elizabeth Kardos Director Assist in the preparation of retention documents, 

relationship disclosures reports and monthly 

staffing and compensation reports

$685 10.5 7,192.50 

Jarod E Clarrey Senior Vice 

President

Liaison with Accounting and Legal 

departments to collect and interpret information 

in support of development of Schedules of 

Assets and Liabilities reports. Interfaced with all 

PG&E lines of business to identify and collect 

information related to executory contracts, 

supporting both the Schedules of Assets and 

Liabilities and the contract assessment 

process. Coordinated with PG&E personnel to 

collect and review information in support of 

Statements of Financial Affairs.

$615 199.6 122,754.00 

Jeff Ivester Senior Vice 

President

Support spend governance workstream with 

development of committee presentations and 

execution of dashboard reporting. Identify and 

tracked cost reduction opportunities through 

weekly meetings with the Customer Care line of 

business. 

$615 174.3 107,194.50 

Jennifer A McConnell Senior Vice 

President

Support diligence response workstream with 

development of response materials to diligence 

requests, coordination with company, counsel 

and other constituents, tracking of response 

status, and reporting/presentations related 

thereto.

$615 259.3 159,469.50 

Christopher S Atkins Vice President Support cost reduction workstream with analysis 

of third party spend data and focus on 

understanding of spend data cube. Formalize 

cost reduction hypotheses related to IT software 

and hardware, marketing, contingent labor and 

staff augmentation and prepare for preliminary 

interviews with relevant PG&E leadership.

$600 226.1 135,660.00 

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Wally Li Vice President Support and maintain the claims and contracts 

website including user management and 

system/software/security upgrades and 

patches; support and resolve user technical 

issues; develop and test requested changes (such 

as new functions/modules); handle data update, 

import, export, and archive upon requests.

$600 38.7 23,220.00 

Chris J Dunbar Independent 

Contractor

Support cash forecasting workstream by (1) 

developing a collections model and (2) 

engineering a process for incorporating energy 

procurement spend. Develop strategy around 

energy procurement cost reduction potential.

$585 81.2 47,502.00 

David M Purcell Vice President Support liquidity and cash management 

workstreams. Build and maintain cash forecast, 

track and analyze actual results, and develop 

cash forecast reports for internal and external 

parties.

$565 158.8 89,722.00 

Nitesh Neelanshu Vice President Support cost reduction workstream with specific 

focus on analytics and documentation support 

related to construction and engineering services 

spend optimization. Support PMO, steering 

committee and additional cost reduction efforts 

as necessary.

$565 201.2 113,678.00 

Peter C Hill Vice President Support cost reductions workstream with specific 

focus on development of labor model and 

analysis of PG&E internal labor spend for each 

line of business.

$565 205.9 116,333.50 

Stephane E De Yuyst Vice President Support cost reduction workstream activities. 

Analyze financial performance and compare 

them to reference performance metrics. 

$565 4.3 2,429.50 

Spencer Dorsey Vice President Support liquidity, cash management and vendor 

management workstreams. Prepare daily cash 

report to monitor post-petition liquidity for PGE 

Treasury department/CRO/Deputy CRO. Build 

and maintain disbursements database to support 

payment tracking initiatives related to prepetition 

vs. post petition payments and payments 

permissible under first day motion authority.

$480 157.6 75,648.00 

Carlos G Blanco Vice President Support cost reduction workstream activities. 

Analyze financial performance and compare 

them to reference performance metrics. 

$565 4.3 2,429.50 

Bruce Smathers Vice President Support cost reduction workstream with 

development of a rate based 3 statement business 

to be used to analyze proposed scenarios on cost 

reduction initiatives. Analyze spend and budget 

related to the cost reduction initiatives.

$440 201 88,440.00 

Michael D Truman Vice President Support cost reduction workstream $285 0.5 142.50 

Cindy Wan Vice President Support and maintain the claims and contracts 

website which include: user management and 

system/software/security upgrades and 

patches; support and resolve user technical 

issues; develop and test requested changes (such 

as new functions/modules); handle data update, 

import, export, and archive upon requests.

$285 5.3 1,510.50 

Lisa Marie Bonito Associate Assist with the preparation of monthly staffing 

and compensation reports

$430 24.5 10,535.00 

Brian Beilinson Consultant Support compliance with accounts payable 

segregation requirements by (1) designing a 

process and methodology for designating 

invoices and prepetition or post-petition and (2) 

training and managing a team of 43 billing 

analysts tasked with reviewing and classifying 

all 3-way match PO invoices as pre-petition or 

post-petition.

$425 235.6 100,130.00 

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Zachary A Pollack Consultant Support compliance with accounts payable 

segregation requirements with development of 

SQLite database to analyze daily open invoices. 

Utilize daily SAP reports and the open invoices 

database to distribute daily invoice assignments 

queue to the invoice review team as well as 

report on payment blocks and their dispositions.

$425 204 86,700.00 

Zachary E Courie Consultant Support supplier management committee process 

with the design and implementation of payment 

request forms, management of committee 

meeting agendas, and creation of payments 

report. Advise company on proper adherence to 

supplier management committee 

guidelines/requirements, designation of 

prepetition invoices and analysis required to 

support evaluation of potential operational 

integrity suppliers. 

$425 177.9 75,607.50 

Katharine G Glasscock Consultant Support efforts to collect and analyze required 

content for Schedules of Assets and Liabilities 

and manage database containing all content to be 

reported in the Schedules. Facilitate initial 

reconciliation of all reclamation and 503(b)(9) 

demands.

$385 242.6 93,401.00 

Total Professional Hours and Fees 

6,168.8 4,589,539.00 

Less 100% Travel Fees (660,150.50)

Total Professional Fees

$ 3,929,388.50 

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3/1/2019 - 3/31/2019

EXPENSE CATEGORY AMOUNT

Airfare Change Fees $ 2,020.60 

Airfare 80,754.93 

Airfare Service Charge 3,498.35 

Cab Fare/Ground Transportation 28,570.52 

Research 14.60 

Lodging 246,666.52 

Meals 20,312.91 

Meals - Engagement Team 2,240.07 

Mileage 5.22 

Other 1,190.57 

Parking & Tolls 1,638.23 

Postage/Messenger/Courier 20.01 

Public Transportation 67.50 

Rental Car 1,670.50 

TOTAL EXPENSES $ 388,670.53 

Exhibit C

AP SERVICES, LLC

Sumary of Expenses - Pacific Gas and Electric Company, et al.

For the Period March 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019

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