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 June 1, 2019 through June 30, 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

$1,140 126.8 $ 144,552.00 

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

$1,140 205.9 234,726.00 

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

$1,015 205.1 208,176.50 

Robb C McWilliams Managing Director Direct engagement activities and priorities of 

working teams across multiple work streams 

and advise on various matters including the 

review of invoices for the determination of 

prepetition and post-petition, Monthly 

Operating Reports, Schedules of Assets and 

Liabilities, Statement of Financial Affairs, 

Reclamation claims, and 503(b)(9) claims.

$1,015 127.1 129,006.50 

Mark J Brown Managing Director Begin building liquidation analysis to facilitate 

ongoing development of Disclosure Statement 

to support Plan of Reorganization process.

$1,015 1.7 1,725.50 

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Albert Leung Director Lead labor, organizational effectiveness and 

benefits cost savings assessment which includes 

development of labor model and analysis of 

PGE internal and external labor spend for each 

line of business. Support additional labor 

related optimization initiatives across lines of 

businesses and other program management 

office implementation.

$945 167.5 158,287.50 

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.

$945 201.2 190,134.00 

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.

$945 193.2 182,574.00 

Phillip R Croom Director Support spend reduction workstream with 

specific focus on external spend related to 

MRO, aviation, and fleet. Analyze spend data, 

interview leaders and key stakeholders to 

develop hypotheses on spend reduction 

opportunities. Validate (or disprove) 

hypotheses to develop high confidence cost 

reduction opportunities in the areas listed above. 

Support development and implementation of 

actions to achieve spend reduction targets.

$945 247.1 233,509.50 

Steven A Aschkenase Director Support cost reductions workstream with a 

specific focus on defining savings opportunities 

in customer care including customer service, 

meter to cash and public purpose programs. 

Begin developing PMO structure to support cost 

reduction initiative implementation

$945 106.9 101,020.50 

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.

$945 186.2 175,959.00 

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.

$945 177.3 167,548.50 

Rus Parashchak Director Support cost reduction workstream with specific 

focus on leading execution of Contract Award 

Policy initiative, assessing current processes and 

recommending improvements to drive more 

competition and external spend savings.

$945 147 138,915.00 

Charles G Zentay Director Support assessment of Network & Telecom 

workstream, with focus on developing baseline, 

conducting vendor spend deep dives, 

developing overview of technology landscape, 

and performing cost opportunity assessment.

$945 8.4 7,938.00 

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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 55.0 49,225.00 

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.

$895 142.9 127,895.50 

John C Labella Director Lead and manage team of PGE, 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 PGE 

accounting group in identifying and aggregating 

financial data for preparation of the Monthly 

Operating reports for January and February.

$895 101.2 90,574.00 

Jeffrey W Kopa Director Begin building liquidation analysis to facilitate 

ongoing development of Disclosure Statement 

to support Plan of Reorganization process.

$830 1.9 1,577.00 

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. 

$830 132.4 109,892.00 

Michelle R Repko Director Lead cross-functional effort with AP Services 

team and company team members in 

development and implementation of a process to 

resolve over 600 asserted 503b9 claims. Assist 

company in development and formation of 

claims steering committee and organizationwide process for resolving claims. Assist 

company in preforming preliminary analysis on 

existing claim population. Support various 

other case management efforts. 

$830 150.9 125,247.00 

Brent Robison Director Work with company to assess reclamation 

demands and manage process for the review and 

reconciliations in preparation of filing the 

reclamation notice. Assist company personnel 

to track information received related to 

mechanic's liens and assist with resolving any 

associated issues. Review filed 503(b)(9) 

claims to determine validity of claim and 

prepare for possible objection to claims.

$775 140.0 108,500.00 

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

$775 158.8 123,070.00 

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Patryk P Szafranski Director Serve as lead AP Services resource on business 

plan development; lead AP Services team and 

client staff in 5 year forecast consolidation, 

scenarios modelling; assist in interface, 

communications, and diligence support with 

potential investors and other internal and 

external stakeholders

$775 295.1 228,702.50 

Arnab Mukherjee Senior Vice 

President

Support on the Contract Award Process 

Workstream.

$665 117.9 78,403.50 

Elizabeth Kardos Director Assist in the preparation of retention documents, 

relationship disclosures reports and monthly 

staffing and compensation reports

$685 4.0 2,740.00 

Jarod E Clarrey Senior Vice 

President

Support PGE accounts payable team's review of 

asserted 503(b)(9) claims. Assist in 

development and implementation of claims 

review and contract assessment processes, 

including the coordination of web-based 

analytical tools for PGE users and development 

of training materials. Administered contract 

document collection from PGE personnel to 

support assessment process.

$615 153.4 94,341.00 

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 93.7 57,625.50 

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.

$615 174.0 107,010.00 

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 PGE leadership.

$600 170.9 102,540.00 

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 29.1 17,460.00 

Chris J Dunbar Vice President 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.

$585 121.0 70,785.00 

David M Purcell Vice President Support liquidity and cash management 

workstream and business plan development 

workstream. Build and maintain cash forecast, 

track and analyze actual results, and develop 

cash forecast reports for internal and external 

parties. Additionally assist client staff in 5 year 

forecast consolidation and scenarios modeling.

$565 177.4 100,231.00 

Rich Kline Vice President Support business plan development workstream 

and assist PGE forecasting team in refining and 

testing baseline assumptions and in evaluating 

modeling output.

$565 305.7 172,720.50 

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Bryce Pyle Vice President Support business plan development workstream 

with focus on validation of five-year forecast. 

Assist in diligence support with internal and 

external stakeholders.

$565 267.5 151,137.50 

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.

$565 180.6 102,039.00 

Peter C Hill Vice President Support cost reductions workstream with 

specific focus on development of labor model 

and analysis of PGE internal labor spend for 

each line of business.

$565 148.9 84,128.50 

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.

$480 160.0 76,800.00 

Laurie C Verry Senior Vice 

President

Assist in the preparation of retention documents 

and relationship disclosures reports

$490 2.4 1,176.00 

Bruce Smathers Vice President Support the cost reduction workstream within 

Gas Operations by identifying, evaluating, and 

tracking initiatives in an effort to lower 

customer energy rates.

$440 144.6 63,624.00 

Lisa Marie Bonito Associate Assist with the preparation of monthly staffing 

and compensation reports

$430 5.5 2,365.00 

Tammy Brewer Vice President Assist with the preparation of monthly staffing 

and compensation reports

$430 23.0 9,890.00 

Tom A Fitzsimmons Associate Support project specific secure data storage 

requirements.

$240 0.5 120.00 

Vera Jiang Associate Preparation of Electric Operations 

benchmarking analysis and related modeling 

including creation of relevant charts for 

performance comparatives.

$240 18.0 4,320.00 

Amy Liu Associate Preparation of Electric Operations 

benchmarking analysis and related modeling 

including creation of relevant charts for 

performance comparatives.

$240 14.5 3,480.00 

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. Managed the Claims Review 

Team by 1) creating and teaching the 503b9 

training materials 2) reviewing templates 

submitted by the CRT for accuracy and 3) 

managing the claims WIP queue and tracking 

results.

$425 168.8 71,740.00 

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.

$425 152.6 64,855.00 

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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. Support the assessment of 

executory contracts by creating a contracts 

database, managing updates to the contracts 

webtool and database, and creating contracts 

reporting for management. 

$425 185.3 78,752.50 

Katharine G Glasscock Consultant Support claims management workstream and 

manage database containing all filed and 

scheduled claims as well as claims objections. 

Facilitate reconciliation of all 503(b)(9) 

demands. Prepare weekly professional fee 

statement report to monitor new fee statements 

and certificates of no objection.

$385 181.8 69,993.00 

Andrea M LeBar Associate Assist with the preparation of monthly staffing 

and compensation reports

$360 35.5 12,780.00 

Barbara J Ferguson Paraprofessional Support claims management workstream $305 99.9 30,469.50 

Derrick Q Irving Paraprofessional Support case management activities $305 66.1 20,160.50 

Total Professional Hours and Fees 6,482.2 4,690,442.50 

Less 100% Travel Fees (720,839.50)

Total Professional Fees

$ 3,969,603.00 

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