 | Terry Bassham
Executive VP, Finance & Strategic Development and CFO, Great Plains Energy
Mr. Bassham joined Great Plains Energy as its new Executive Vice President of Finance and Strategic Development and CFO on March 28, 2005. Mr. Bassham previously was Executive Vice President, CFO and Chief Administrative Officer for El Paso Electric Company (EPE) in El Paso, Texas. In those roles, he oversaw EPE financial, treasury, regulatory and administrative functions. Mr. Bassham joined EPE in 1996 as General Counsel and increasingly assumed responsibility for legislative affairs, regulatory filings and corporate governance. Mr. Bassham holds a BBA - Accounting degree from the University of Texas-Arlington, and a Juris Doctorate degree from St. Mary's University Law School, San Antonio, Texas. |
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| | Steve Drapper UK Commercial Director, International Power plc Mr Drapper was appointed UK Commercial Director in July 2006 and is responsible for trading International Power's fossil fuel fired generation assets in the United Kingdom. Prior to taking up his current position he was Trading Manager for International Power's diverse business in Australia. He is a chartered engineer and has worked in the energy industry since 1978. Prior to relocating to Australia in 1997 he traded power in the England and Wales market and worked as an engineer in the nuclear industry. |
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 | Tom Hagan
Executive Vice President, AEP West Utilities
Mr. Hagan is responsible for distribution and customer service operations in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. He was previously executive vice president-Shared Services, responsible for human resources, information technology, procurement and supply chain services, and corporate services. Prior to assuming the shared services position, Hagan was senior vice president-governmental affairs. He had been involved in public affairs in the electric utility industry since joining the former Central and South West Corp. in 1980. Hagan began at CSW as a state and federal lobbyist and later became vice president-governmental affairs. He was promoted to senior vice president-external affairs in 1996, a position he held until CSW's merger with AEP in June 2000. |
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 | Michael Jenkins
Partner, Trinsum Group
Mr. Jenkins has over 20 years of experience as an advisor on issues of strategy and organization. At Trinsum, he had lead all aspects of the firm including business development, talent development, practice development as well as operations and brings to our board a deep understanding of what it takes to build a successful advisory firm. Mr. Jenkins has degrees from The University of Texas and the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton). |
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 | Shahab Saeed
Vice President and COO, Questar Energy Services and Questar InfoComm
Mr. Saeed has responsibility for oil and gas field automation, measurement and telecommunication services in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. He also served as the President and CEO of Consonus, a regional provider of data center managed services and complex hosting solutions where he successfully completed a turn around. Mr. Saeed has served on the Executive Management Committee of various Questar subsidiaries since April 1993 with accountability for diverse functions from Engineering to Human Resource to Supply chain and Information Technology. Mr. Saeed received his undergraduate degree in Engineering and an MBA from the University of Utah. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Ballet West and Intermountain Health Care Urban Central Region and the Salt Lake City Rotary Club. |
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 | John M. Saenz
Vice President, Retail Energy, CPS Energy
Mr. Saenz Saenz is responsible for the development and implementation of new products and services, energy efficiency and conservation, load research, forecasting, key account management, economic development, and customer service (call center, billing and collections). Prior to joining CPS Energy, Mr. Saenz helped found Grande Communications, Inc., a Central Texas based bundled telecommunications firm. He also served as President and CEO of ExecuMark, Inc., an executive level consulting firm focused on sales and marketing strategies. Mr. Saenz has also served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Central and South West Energy Services, responsible for marketing and sales across four southern states. Prior to that appointment, he was the Transition Executive in the attempted acquisition of El Paso Electric Company. He has also been the General Manager of the Central Power & Light Company's Southern Region in San Benito, TX and Director of Marketing for Central Power & Light Company in Corpus Christi, TX. Mr. Saenz earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology from University of Corpus Christi (now Texas A&M University Corpus Christi), and graduated from the University of Michigan's Public Utilities Executives Program and Stanford University's Executive Program. |
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 | Craig Shere
Senior Energy Analyst, Scottwood Capital Management
Mr. Shere is a Senior Energy Analyst with Scottwood Capital Management a Greenwich, CT-based hedge fund. Prior to joining Scottwood, Mr. Shere worked over two years in SELL side research as a Senior Analyst with Calyon Securities (formerly Credit Lyonnais) focusing on the energy merchant and utility industries. Prior to Calyon, Shere worked for six years in independent equity research as a Senior Investment Officer with Standard & Poor's, again focusing on energy merchants and utilities. Prior to S&P, Mr. Shere was an investment advisor with Paine Webber (1992-1998) and Shearson Lehman Bros. (1988-1992). In May 2003, the Wall Street Journal recognized Mr. Shere as the second best utilities analyst in the nation based on 2002 research recommendations and in September 2006, Investors Business Daily recognized Craig as the best utilities analyst in the nation based on 1H06 research recommendations. He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Michigan (1988) and his master's degree in business administration from New York University (2002). Craig has been a CFA charterholder since 1998. |
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 | Stuart Stoddart
CIO, EPCOR Utilities, Inc.
EPCOR Utilities Inc. is a significant Integrated Utility that builds, owns and operates power plants, electrical transmission and distribution networks, water and wastewater treatment facilities and infrastructure in Canada and the United States. Prior to EPCOR, Mr. Stoddart has managed IT shops in the Utility, Merchant and Trading environments, and, has owned and run a Network and Web Company which he sold in 2001. |
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 | Pat Vincent-Collawn
Utilities President, PNM Resources Ms. Vincent-Collawn has responsibility for operations of both PNM and Texas-New Mexico Power Co., including Strategy Development, Utility Generation Resources, Integrated Resource Planning, Communications and Regulatory Affairs. She oversees operations spanning two states and serving 712,000 electric and 492,000 gas customers. Ms. Vincent-Collawn has more than 15 years of experience in utility leadership and most recently served as President and CEO of Public Service Company of Colorado, a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, where she had responsibility for profitability of the $3.8 billion electric and gas utility with 1.3 million electric and 1.2 million gas customers. She also spent 12 years in other industries, including serving as a brand manager for Quaker Oats and managing a strategic consulting group for Price Waterhouse. She has an MBA from Harvard University and is a graduate of Drake University and is involved in number of professional and community organizations. |
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