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23
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
(as of February 15, 2010)
Name A
g
e Title
David M. McClanahan ................................ 60 President and Chief Executive Officer and Directo
r
Scott E. Rozzell ........................................... 60 Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate
Secretar
y
Gary L. Whitloc
k
......................................... 60 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Office
r
C. Gregory Harpe
r
....................................... 45 Senior Vice President and Group President, CenterPoint
Ener
gy
Pipelines and Field Services
Thomas R. Standish ..................................... 60 Senior Vice President and Group Presiden
t
—
Regulated
Operations
David M. McClanahan has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of CenterPoint Energy
since September 2002. He served as Vice Chairman of Reliant Energy, Incorporated (Reliant Energy) from October
2000 to September 2002 and as President and Chief Operating Officer of Reliant Energy’s Delivery Group from
April 1999 to September 2002. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of ERCOT, Chairman
of the Board of the University of St. Thomas in Houston and Chairman of the Board of the American Gas
Association. He currently serves on the boards of the Edison Electric Institute and the American Gas Association.
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 Reliant 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.
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.
C. Gregory Harper has served as Senior Vice President and Group President of CenterPoint Energy Pipelines
and Field Services since December 2008. Before joining CenterPoint Energy in 2008, Mr. Harper served as
President, Chief Executive Officer and as a Director of Spectra Energy Partners, LP from March 2007 to December
2008. From January 2007 to March 2007, Mr. Harper was Group Vice President of Spectra Energy Corp., and he
was Group Vice President of Duke Energy from January 2004 to December 2006. Mr. Harper served as Senior Vice
President of Energy Marketing and Management for Duke Energy North America from January 2003 until January
2004 and Vice President of Business Development for Duke Energy Gas Transmission and Vice President of East
Tennessee Natural Gas, LLC from March 2002 until January 2003. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of
the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
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.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
We are a holding company that conducts all of our business operations through subsidiaries, primarily
CenterPoint Houston and CERC. The following, along with any additional legal proceedings identified or
incorporated by reference in Item 3 of this report, summarizes the principal risk factors associated with the
businesses conducted by each of these subsidiaries: