C.R.S. § 40-6.5-103

The director must have at least five years of experience in consumer-related utility issues or in the operation, management, or regulation of utilities as either an attorney, an engineer, an economist, an accountant, a financial analyst, or an administrator or any combination of those roles. The executive director shall not appoint as director a person who owns stocks or bonds in a corporation subject in whole or in part to regulation by the commission or who has any pecuniary interest in such corporation.