Richard D. Kinderis Chairman and CEO of Kinder Morgan, one of the largest pipeline transportation and energy storage companies in North America. The Kinder Morgan companies include Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) and Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE: KMR). Through his leadership, Kinder Morgan has grown from a small company with 175 employees and an enterprise value of $325 million
in February 1997 to an organization with approximately 8,000 employees and an enterprise value of approximately $65 billion today. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, one of the largest publicly traded pipeline limited partnerships in the United States, has delivered a compound annual return of 27 percent to its unitholders. Mr. Kinder received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Missouri and served in Vietnam as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He has served on numerous corporate and non profit boards and is a life trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Kinder Morgan owns an interest in or operates more than 38,000 miles of pipelines that transport primarily natural gas, refined petroleum products, CO2 and crude oil; and approximately 180 terminals that store, transfer and handle such products as gasoline, ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel. Kinder Morgan, Inc. owns the general partner interest of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners. Kinder Morgan Management is a limited liability company and its only significant assets are the partnership units it owns in KMP. |
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