At CenterPoint Energy, our board of directors and executive management team are committed to building a company that is Always There for its customers, employees and shareholders.

• Milton Carroll, age 58, has been a director since 1992 and chairman since September 2002. Mr. Carroll is chairman and founder of Instrument Products, Inc., an oil-tool manufacturing company in Houston. He also serves as chairman of Healthcare Service Corporation and a director of Halliburton Company and Western Gas Holdings, LLC, the general partner of Western Gas Partners, LP.  From 2003 to 2007, he served as a director of EGL, Inc.
  
  
• Donald R. Campbell, age 68, has been a director since 2005. Prior to his retirement in September 2000, he was the chief financial officer of Sanders Morris Harris Group, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed regional investment banking firm. He served on the board of directors of Sanders Morris Harris until May 2004. He previously served as vice chairman of the board of directors and chief financial officer of Pinnacle Global Group. Mr. Campbell also previously served as a director of Texas Genco Holdings, Inc. and as the chairman of its audit committee, from March 2003 until December 2004.
  
  
• Derrill Cody, age 70, has been a director since 2003. Mr. Cody is presently of counsel to the law firm of Tomlinson & O’Connell in Oklahoma City since December 2005. Prior to that, he was of counsel to the law firm of McKinney & Stringer, P.C. in Oklahoma City. Mr. Cody also serves as a director of DCP Midstream GP, LLC, the general partner of DCP Midstream Partners, LP. He previously served as executive vice president of Texas Eastern Corporation and as chief executive officer of Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline Company from 1987 to 1990.
  
  
• O. Holcombe Crosswell, age 67, has been a director since 1997 and was a director of NorAm Energy Corp. and the predecessor of a division of that company from 1986 until we acquired that company in 1997. Mr. Crosswell is President of Griggs Corporation, a real estate and investment company in Houston.
  
  
• Michael P. Johnson, age 61, served from 2002 until his retirement in March 2008 as senior vice president and chief administrative officer of The Williams Companies, Inc., a publicly-held natural gas producer, processor and transporter. He is currently a director of Patriot Coal Corporation, QuikTrip Corporation and Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. He also serves on the Oklahoma Advisory Board of Health Care Service Corporation and on the boards of several charitable organizations and foundations, including the Tiger Woods Foundation.
  
  
• Janiece M. Longoria, age 55, has been a director since 2005.  Ms. Longoria is a partner in the law firm of Ogden, Gibson, Broocks & Longoria, L.L.P. in Houston and has a concentration of experience in commercial and securities-related litigation and regulatory matters.  She has served as a commissioner of the Port of Houston Authority since 2002 and as a member of the University of Texas System Board of Regents since February 2008.  She previously served as the treasurer and a director of the Houston Convention Center Hotel Corporation from 1999 to 2004.
  
  
• Thomas F. Madison, age 72, has been a director since 2003. He has served as president and chief executive officer of MLM Partners, a small business consulting and investments company in Minneapolis, since 1993. He previously served as president of US West Communications-Markets until December 1992. He later served as vice chairman of Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company until September 1994, chairman of Communication Holdings, Inc. until March 1999, and as an advisory director of one of our natural gas distribution units. He is currently a director of Valmont Industries, Inc., Delaware Group of Funds, Digital River, Inc. and Rimage Corporation.
  
  
• David M. McClanahan, age 59, has served as a director and as president and chief executive officer of CenterPoint Energy since 2002. He served as vice chairman of our predecessor company from October 2000 to September 2002 and as president and chief operating officer of its Delivery Group from 1999 to September 2002. Previously, he served as president and chief operating officer of our predecessor company’s HL&P division from 1997 to 1999. He has served in various executive officer capacities with the company since 1986. He currently serves on the boards of the Edison Electric Institute and the American Gas Association, where he's currently chairman of the board.
  
  
• Robert T. O’Connell, age 70, has been a director since 2004. Mr. O’Connell is a business consultant focusing on financial, strategic and business development matters. He has been a director of Gulfmark Offshore, Inc. since 2006. Residing in Boston, he has been a board member of Commonwealth Corporation and a member of the Boston Finance Commission, two Massachusetts public service entities, since 2003. From 1997 to 2003, he served as a director of RWD Technologies, Inc. and as its senior vice president of Strategic Business Planning from August 1997 to July 2000 and its chief financial officer and senior vice president of Strategic Business Planning from August 2000 to June 2001. Mr. O’Connell served as senior vice president and chief staff officer of EMC Corporation from 1995 to 1997. Between 1965 and 1994, Mr. O’Connell held several positions in General Motors Corporation, including chief financial officer of General Motors Corporation from 1988 to 1992 and chairman and chief executive officer of General Motors Acceptance Corporation from 1992 to 1994.
  
  
• Susan O. Rheney, age 47, is a private investor. Since 2002, she has served as a director of Genesis Energy, Inc., the general partner of Genesis Energy, LP, a publicly-traded limited partnership. From 2003 to 2005, she was a director of Cenveo, Inc. and served as chairman of the board from January to August 2005. She also served until 2001 as a principal with The Sterling Group, a private financial and investment organization.
  
  
• Michael E. Shannon, age 71, has been a director since 2003. He has been President of MEShannon & Associates, Inc., a private firm specializing in corporate financial advisory services and investments, since 2000. He served as chairman of the board and chief financial and administrative officer of Ecolab, Inc. (a specialty chemical company) from 1996 until his retirement in January 2000. Prior to that, he held senior management positions with Ecolab, Inc., Republic Steel Corporation and Gulf Oil Corp. Mr. Shannon is a director of NACCO Industries, Inc. He previously served as a director of Apogee Enterprises, Inc. from 1998 to 2007 and The Clorox Company from 2001 to 2007.
  
  
• Peter S. Wareing, age 57, has been a director since 2005. Mr. Wareing is a co-founder and partner of the private equity firm Wareing, Athon & Company and is involved in a variety of businesses. He is the chairman of the board of Gulf Coast Pre-Stress, Ltd. in Pass Christian, Miss. and chairman of the board of Union Ice Company, Ltd., in Los Angeles. He is also the vice chairman of the board of Nordic Cold Storage, LLC, in Atlanta as well as an officer and director of several other privately-owned family entities. He also currently serves on the Houston Region Advisory Board of JPMorgan Chase Bank and is a trustee of Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
  
  
• Sherman M. Wolff, 67, has been a director since 2007.  Prior to his retirement in 2006, he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Health Care Service Corporation, which provides health and life insurance products and related services as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Illinois, New Mexico and Oklahoma. He held various positions with that company from 1991 until his retirement.  He currently serves as director of Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corporation.  He previously served as a director of EGL, Inc. from 2006 to 2007.
  
  

* Pictured above from left to right: Donald R. Campbell, O. Holcombe Crosswell,  Michael E. Shannon, Peter S. Wareing, David M. McClanahan, Thomas F. Madison, Milton Carroll, Derrill Cody, Robert T. O'Connell, Sherman M. Wolff and Janiece M. Longoria. Not pictured: Michael P. Johnson and Susan O. Rheney.