Richard S. Mroz has a long and distinguished career in law, government and public service, and corporate governance. He is a founding member and managing director of Resolute Strategies LLC and senior director of Archer Public Affairs in Trenton, NJ, and Washington, DC. He advises clients in the energy, utilities, infrastructure, and financial industries. He is also senior adviser to Protect Our Power, a national nonindustry nonprofit advocacy organization supporting best practices and investments in cybersecurity and resilience measures for the energy, utility, and critical infrastructure industries.

Mroz is the immediate past president of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU), serving as chairman and chief administrative officer of the agency and functioning as the chief energy officer for New Jersey. He was president of the NJBPU from October 2014 until January 2018 and remained as a commissioner until April 2018. Mroz was also chairman of the Critical Infrastructure Committee for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), served on the NARUC Board of Directors, was the NARUC liaison to the Electric Sector Coordinating Council, and served as chairman of the Organization of PJM States Inc.

Mroz is currently a member of the US Department of Energy Electric Advisory Committee , serving on the Subcommittee on Smart Grid Development and the Subcommittee on Defense Critical Infrastructure. He served as chief counsel to New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman after serving in various capacities in her administration, as well as a commissioner of the Delaware River & Bay Authority. President George W. Bush appointed Mroz to the Commission on White House Fellows in 2007. He began his career in local government as in-house solicitor to Camden County, NJ. For many years, he was counsel to the New Jersey Conference of Mayors.

Mroz has been a long time member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, a government sponsored enterprise with more than $100 billion in assets providing wholesale lending to member financial institutions in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, serving as chairman of the Housing Committee; former chair of the Government & Regulatory Affairs Committee; former member of the Executive, Audit, Strategic Planning, and Compensation Committees; and inaugural member of the Governance and Technology Committees. He has also served on nonprofit boards including the Volunteers of America Delaware Valley and the University of Delaware National Alumni Association.

Mroz is a graduate of the University of Delaware and holds a JD from the Villanova School of Law.