Kirbyjon H. Caldwell has been a director of NRG since March 2009. He was a director
of Reliant Energy, Inc. (now known as GenOn Energy, Inc.) from August 2003 to
March 2009. Since 1982, he has served as Senior Pastor at the 16,000-member Windsor
Village United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. Pastor Caldwell was also a
director of United Continental Holdings, Inc. (formerly Continental Airlines,
Inc.) from 1999 to September 2011.
John F. Chlebowski has been a director of NRG since December 2003. Mr. Chlebowski
served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Lakeshore Operating Partners,
LLC, a bulk liquid distribution firm, from March 2000 until his retirement in
December 2004. From July 1999 until March 2000, Mr. Chlebowski was a senior
executive and cofounder of Lakeshore Liquids Operating Partners, LLC, a private
venture firm in the bulk liquid distribution and logistics business, and from
January 1998 until July 1999, he was a private investor and consultant in bulk
liquid distribution. From 1994 until 1997, he was the President and Chief Executive
Officer of GATX Terminals Corporation, a subsidiary of GATX Corporation. Prior
to that, he served as Vice President of Finance Chief Financial Officer of GATX
Corporation from 1986 to 1994. Mr. Chlebowski is a director of First Midwest
Bancorp Inc. and the Non-Executive Chairman of SemGroup Corporation. Mr. Chlebowski
also served as a director of Laidlaw International, Inc. from June 2003 until
October 2007, SpectraSite, Inc. from June 2004 until August 2005, and Phosphate
Resource Partners Limited Partnership from June 2004 until August 2005.
Lawrence S. Coben has been a director of NRG since December 2003. He is currently
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tremisis Energy Corporation LLC. He
was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tremisis Energy Acquisition Corporation
II, a publicly held company since July 2007, from December 2007 through March
2009 and of Tremisis Energy Acquisition Corporation from February 2004 to May
2006. From January 2001 to January 2004, he was a Senior Principal of Sunrise
Capital Partners L.P., a private equity firm. From 1997 to January 2001, Mr.
Coben was an independent consultant. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Coben was Chief
Executive Officer of Bolivian Power Company.
Howard E. Cosgrove has served as Chairman of the Board and a director of NRG
since December 2003. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Conectiv
and its predecessor Delmarva Power and Light Company from December 1992 to August
2002. Prior to December 1992, Mr. Cosgrove held various positions with Delmarva
Power and Light including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Cosgrove serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of
Delaware.
David Crane has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director
of NRG since December 2003. Prior to joining NRG, Mr. Crane served as Chief
Executive Officer of International Power plc, a UK-domiciled wholesale power
generation company, from January 2003 to November 2003, and as Chief Operating
Officer from March 2000 through December 2002. Mr. Crane was Senior Vice President
- Global Power New York at Lehman Brothers Inc., an investment banking firm,
from January 1999 to February 2000, and was Senior Vice President - Global Power
Group, Asia (Hong Kong) at Lehman Brothers from June 1996 to January 1999. Mr.
Crane is also a director of El Paso Corporation.
Stephen L. Cropper has been a director of NRG since December 2003. Mr. Cropper
spent 25 years with The Williams Companies Inc., an energy company, before retiring
in 1998 as President and Chief Executive Officer of Williams Energy Services.
Mr. Cropper is a director of Berry Petroleum Company, Sunoco Logistics Partners
L.P., Wawa, Inc., QuikTrip Corporation and NGL Energy Partners, LP, and was
a director of Rental Car Finance Corporation, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty
Automotive Group, Inc. until December 2011.
William E. Hantke has been a director of NRG since March 2006. Mr. Hantke served
as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Premcor, Inc., a
refining company, from February 2002 until December 2005. Mr. Hantke was Corporate
Vice President of Development of Tosco Corporation, a refining and marketing
company, from September 1999 until September 2001, and he also served as Corporate
Controller from December 1993 until September 1999. Prior to that position,
he was employed by Coopers & Lybrand as Senior Manager, Mergers and Acquisitions
from 1989 until 1990. He also held various positions from 1975 until 1988 with
AMAX, Inc., including Corporate Vice President, Operations Analysis and Senior
Vice President, Finance and Administration, Metals and Mining. He was employed
by Arthur Young from 1970 to 1975 as Staff/Senior Accountant. Mr. Hantke was
Non-Executive Chairman of Process Energy Solutions, a private alternative energy
company until March 31, 2008 and served as director and Vice-Chairman of NTR
Acquisition Co., an oil refining start-up, until January 2009.
Paul W. Hobby has been a director of NRG since March 2006. Mr. Hobby is the
Managing Partner of Genesis Park, L.P., a Houston-based private equity business
specializing in technology and communications investments which he helped to
form in 2000. In that capacity, he serves as the Chief Executive Officer of
Alpheus Communications, Inc., a Texas wholesale telecommunications provider,
and as Former Chairman of CapRock Services Corp., the largest provider of satellite
services to the global energy business. From November 1992 until January 2001,
he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hobby Media Services and
was Chairman of Columbine JDS Systems, Inc. from 1995 until 1997. He was an
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas from 1989 to 1992,
Chief of Staff to the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Bob Bullock, in 1991 and
an Associate at Fulbright & Jaworski from 1986 to 1989. Mr. Hobby is also
a director of Stewart Information Services Corporation (Stewart Title).
Gerald Luterman has been a director of NRG since April 2009. He also served
as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company from November 2009 through
May 2010. Mr. Luterman was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
of KeySpan Corporation from August 1999 to September 2007. Prior to this time,
Mr. Luterman had more than 30 years experience in senior financial positions
with companies including American Express, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Emerson
Electric Company and Arrow Electronics. Mr. Luterman also served as a director
of IKON Office Solutions, Inc. from November 2003 until August 2008 and U.S.
Shipping Partners L.P. from May 2006 until November 2009.
Kathleen A. McGinty has been a director of NRG since October 2008. Most recently,
Ms. McGinty served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection (“DEP”), a position she held from 2003 until July 2008.
Before joining the DEP, Ms. McGinty spent six years in the Clinton White House,
where she was chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and
earlier served as a senior environmental advisor to Vice President Al Gore.
She currently serves as Secretary of the Board of Trustees at Saint Josephs
University in Pennsylvania and is the former Chair of the Pennsylvania Energy
Development Authority. Ms. McGinty is also a founding partner of Peregrine Technology
Partners, LLC, a firm focused on commercialization of resource efficient technologies,
and operating partner of Element Partners, an investor in the clean technology
sector. Ms. McGinty is also a director of Iberdrola USA and currently serves
as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Weston Solutions, Inc.
Anne C. Schaumburg has been a director of NRG since April 2005. From 1984 until
her retirement in January 2002, she was employed by Credit Suisse First Boston
in the Global Energy Group, where she last served as Managing Director. From
1979 to 1984, she was in the Utilities Group at Dean Witter Financial Services
Group, where she last served as Managing Director. From 1971 to 1978, she was
at The First Boston Corporation in the Public Utilities Group. Ms. Schaumburg
is also a director of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P.
Herbert H. Tate has been a director of NRG since December 2003. Mr. Tate was
Of Counsel to Wolff & Samson, P.C. a New Jersey law firm from 2002 to 2004.
In 2004, he became Corporate Vice President of Regulatory Strategy for NiSource
Corporation and served until April 2006. From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Tate was appointed
by New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman as President to the New Jersey
Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). During that period, Mr. Tate also served
on the Board of Directors for the National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI),
at Ohio State University; as a member of the Electricity Committee of the National
Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC); and as a member of
the Harvard Electric Policy Group. During 2001 and 2002, Mr. Tate was Professor
for Energy Policy Studies at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and from
2001 through 2005, Mr. Tate served as a member of the Advisory Committee to
the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Board of Directors. Upon leaving
the NJBPU in 2001 and until 2004, Mr. Tate served on the Board of Directors
for Central Vermont Public Service electric utility and on the Audit Committee.
From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Tate also served on the Board of Directors for IDT Capital
and IDT Spectrum, subsidiaries to IDT Corporation. In addition to his experience
in the electric and natural gas industries, Mr. Tate was appointed by President
George H.W. Bush as Assistant Administrator for Enforcement to the United States
Environmental Protection Agency from 1991 to 1993. Mr. Tate served on the Board
of Directors to the Environmental Law Institute from 2004 to 2009.
Thomas H. Weidemeyer has been a director of NRG since December 2003. Until
his retirement in December 2003, Mr. Weidemeyer served as Director, Senior Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer of United Parcel Service, Inc., the worlds
largest transportation company and President of UPS Airlines. Mr. Weidemeyer
became Manager of the Americas International Operation in 1989, and in that
capacity directed the development of the UPS delivery network throughout Central
and South America. In 1990, Mr. Weidemeyer became Vice President and Airline
Manager of UPS Airlines and, in 1994, was elected its President and Chief Operating
Officer. Mr. Weidemeyer became Senior Vice President and a member of the Management
Committee of United Parcel Service, Inc. that same year, and he became Chief
Operating Officer of United Parcel Service, Inc. in January 2001. Mr. Weidemeyer
also serves as a director of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Waste Management,
Inc. and Amsted Industries Incorporated.
Walter R. Young has been a director of NRG since December 2003. From May 1990
to June 2003, Mr. Young was Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
of Champion Enterprises, Inc., an assembler and manufacturer of manufactured
homes. Mr. Young has held senior management positions with The Henley Group,
The Budd Company and BFGoodrich.
David Crane has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director
of NRG since December 2003. For additional biographical information for Mr.
Crane, see above under “Directors.”
Kirkland Andrews has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer of NRG Energy since September 2011. Prior to joining NRG, he served
as Managing Director and Co-Head Investment Banking, Power and Utilities - Americas
at Deutsche Bank Securities from June 2009 to September 2011. Prior to this,
he served in several capacities at Citigroup Global Markets Inc., including
Managing Director, Group Head, North American Power from November 2007 to June
2009, and Head of Power M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions from July 2005 to
November 2007. In his banking career, Mr. Andrews led multiple large and innovative
strategic, debt, equity and commodities transactions.
Michael R. Bramnick has served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel
since August 2010. He previously served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel,
from February 2009 to August 2010. As General Counsel, Mr. Bramnick is responsible
for NRGs legal affairs as well as corporate and regulatory compliance. He previously
served as Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, having joined
NRG in December 2004. In that position, he managed all litigation and dispute
resolution for the Company, was responsible for the Corporate Compliance Program
including the Companys Code of Conduct, and led the Regulatory Compliance Group.
Prior to joining NRG, Mr. Bramnick was Associate General Counsel at Millennium
Chemicals. He previously held in-house positions at Lucent Technologies and
EnviroSource and served in private practice for six years at Pepper Hamilton,
LLP.
Mauricio Gutierrez has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer since July 2010. In this capacity, Mr. Gutierrez oversees NRGs Plant
Operations, Commercial Operations, Environmental Compliance, as well as the
Engineering, Procurement and Construction division. He previously served as
Executive Vice President, Commercial Operations, from January 2009 to July 2010
and Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, from March 2008 to January
2009. In this capacity, he was responsible for the optimization of the Companys
asset portfolio and fuel requirements. Prior to this, Mr. Gutierrez served as
Vice President Commercial Operations Trading from May 2006 to March 2008. Prior
to joining NRG in August 2004, Mr. Gutierrez held various positions within Dynegy,
Inc., including Managing Director, Trading - Southeast and Texas, Senior Trader
East Power and Asset Manager. Prior to Dynegy, Mr. Gutierrez served as senior
consultant and project manager at DTP involved in various energy and infrastructure
projects in Mexico.
James J. Ingoldsby has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting
Officer since March 2008. He is responsible for directing NRGs financial accounting
and reporting activities. From August 2006 to March 2008, Mr. Ingoldsby served
as Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis. From May 2004 to July 2006,
Mr. Ingoldsby served as NRGs Vice President and Controller. Mr. Ingoldsby,
who led the Sarbanes-Oxley implementation at chemical company Hercules, Inc.,
previously held various executive positions at GE Betz, formerly BetzDearborn
from 1993 to 2003, including serving as Controller and Director of Business
Analysis and Director of Financial Reporting. He also held various staff and
managerial accounting and auditing positions at Mack Trucks, Inc. from 1982
to 1993. Mr. Ingoldsby began his career with Deloitte and Touche.
John W. Ragan has served as Executive Vice President and Regional President,
Gulf Coast since July 2010. In this capacity, Mr. Ragan is responsible for managing
NRGs largest regional power generation portfolio, totaling over 10,500 megawatts
of power in Texas and NRGs retail electric provider, Reliant Energy. He previously
served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from February
2009 to July 2010, overseeing NRGs Plant Operations, Commercial Operations,
Environmental Compliance, as well as the Engineering, Procurement and Construction
division. He previously served as Executive Vice President and Regional President,
Northeast from December 2006 to February 2009. Prior to joining NRG, Mr. Ragan
was Vice President of Trading, Transmission, and Operations at FPL Energy in
2006 and also served as Vice President of Business Management for FPL Energys
Northeast Region from August 2005 through July 2006. Prior to this, Mr. Ragan
served as General Manager - Containerboard and Packaging for Georgia Pacific
Corporation from October 2004 through July 2005. He also served in increasing
roles of responsibility for Mirant Corporation from 1996 through 2004, notably
as Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Mirants International
Group from August 2003 to July 2004.
Denise M. Wilson has served as Executive Vice President and President, New
Business since July 2011. In this capacity, Ms. Wilson is responsible for the
oversight of all new business ventures and development. Prior to this, Ms. Wilson
served as Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer (“CAO”)
from September 2008 to July 2011. As CAO, Ms. Wilson had oversight for several
key corporate functions including Human Resources, Investor Relations, Communications
and Information Technology. Ms. Wilson originally joined NRG in 2000 and served
as Vice President, Human Resources from 2004 until she was named CAO in July
2006. She served in that position until March 2007 when she joined Nash-Finch
Company, a leading national food distributor as Senior Vice President, Human
Resources. Ms. Wilson left Nash-Finch in June 2008 to retire and then rejoined
NRG in September 2008. Ms. Wilson has also served as Vice President, Human Resources
Operations with Metris Companies Inc. and Director, Human Resources with General
Electric ITS.
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NRG Energy s Leadership Changes and Financial Performance: Assessing the Impact and Charting a Greener Future
In a recent announcement, NRG Energy Inc. revealed significant changes in its leadership team. Elizabeth Killinger, the Executive Vice President of NRG Home, has elected to retire from her role. Meanwhile, Rasesh Patel has been named as the President of NRG Consumer, responsible for overseeing the two distinct business segments of Smart Home and Home Energy. These leadership changes aim to streamline operations and drive the company forward. Killinger will continue to serve as an advisor to the CEO until January 2025, highlighting her continued dedication to NRG.
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