Total Compensation: $ 3.03 M
David M. McClanahan, age 58, 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 Houston Lighting & Power Company division from 1997 to 1999. He has served in various executive officer capacities with us since 1986. He currently serves on the board of the Edison Electric Institute and as the Chairman of the Board of the American Gas Association.
Total Compensation: $ 1.08 M
Gary L. Whitlock has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CenterPoint Energy since September 2002. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Delivery Group of Reliant Energy from July 2001 to September 2002. Mr. Whitlock served as the Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, from 1998 to 2001.
Total Compensation: $ —
Walter L. Fitzgerald has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of CenterPoint Energy since December 2007. He served as Vice President and Controller from October 2001 to December 2007. Before joining CenterPoint Energy in 2001, Mr. Fitzgerald was Controller of DuPont Dow Elastomers, from 1997 to 2001.
Total Compensation: $ 1.04 M
Scott E. Rozzell has served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of CenterPoint Energy since September 2002. He served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Delivery Group of Reliant Energy from March 2001 to September 2002. Before joining CenterPoint Energy in 2001, Mr. Rozzell was a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts L.L.P. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Electric Companies of Texas.
Total Compensation: $ 840,681.00
Thomas R. Standish has served as Senior Vice President and Group President-Regulated Operations of CenterPoint Energy since August 2005, having previously served as Senior Vice President and Group President and Chief Operating Officer of CenterPoint Houston from June 2004 to August 2005 and as President and Chief Operating Officer of CenterPoint Houston from August 2002 to June 2004. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer for both electricity and natural gas for Reliant Energy's Houston area from 1999 to August 2002. Mr. Standish has served in various executive capacities with CenterPoint Energy since 1993.
Total Compensation: $ —
Sherman M. Wolff, age 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.
Total Compensation: $ —
On July 24, 2008, the Board of Directors elected Ms. Susan O. Rheney as director of the Company. Since 2001, Ms. Rheney has been 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 focused on the midstream segment of the oil and gas industry in the Gulf Coast region of the United States. She formerly served as a director of Cenveo, Inc. from 2003 to 2005 and served as chairman of the board from January to August 2005. She also served as a principal with The Sterling Group, a private financial and investment organization, until 2001.
Total Compensation: $ —
On July 24, 2008, the Board of Directors elected Mr. Michael P. Johnson as director of the Company. From 2002 until his retirement in March 2008, Mr. Johnson served as Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of The Williams Companies, Inc., a publicly held natural gas producer, processor and transporter. He had held executive positions with Williams since 1998. Mr. Johnson currently serves as a director of Patriot Coal Corporation, Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. and QuikTrip Corporation. He also serves on the Oklahoma Advisory Board of Health Care Service Corporation.
Total Compensation: $ 710,447.00
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Total Compensation: $ —
Robert T. O'Connell, age 69, has been a director since 2004. Mr. O'Connell is a business consultant focusing on strategic and business development matters. He has been a director of Gulfmark Offshore, Inc. since 2006. Residing in Boston, Massachusetts, 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 from August 1997 to July 2001 and its Chief Financial Officer 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.
Total Compensation: $ —
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, Texas 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.
Total Compensation: $ —
Peter S. Wareing, age 56, 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, Mississippi and Chairman of the Board of Union Ice Company, Ltd., in Los Angeles, California. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Board of Nordic Cold Storage, LLC, in Atlanta, Georgia 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.
Total Compensation: $ —
Derrill Cody, age 69, has been a director since 2003. Mr. Cody is currently of counsel to the law firm of Tomlinson & O'Connell in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma since December 2005. Prior to that, he was of counsel to the law firm of McKinney & Stringer, P.C. in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from 1990. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Cody served as a director of DCP Midstream GP, LLC, the general partner of DCP Midstream Partners, LP. He also 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.
Total Compensation: $ —
Milton Carroll, age 57, 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, Texas. He also serves as Chairman of Healthcare Service Corporation and a director of Halliburton Company. From 2003 to 2007, he served as a director of a EGL, Inc.
Total Compensation: $ —
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, Texas.
Total Compensation: $ —
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.
Total Compensation: $ —
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.
Total Compensation: $ —
Donald R. Campbell, age 67, 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.
