Richard D. Kinder
is 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 Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP), Kinder Morgan Management, LLC (NYSE: KMR) and Knight Inc. (formerly Kinder Morgan, Inc), a private entity.

Through his leadership, Kinder Morgan has grown from a small company with 150 employees and an enterprise value of $325 million in February 1997 to an organization with approximately 7,500 employees and an enterprise value of over $20 billion today. During the past 12 years, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE: KMP) has produced a compound annual return of 25 percent to unitholders.

Kinder Morgan is one of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Companies in America and has been ranked #1 in the “Pipeline Category” for several years. In 2008 Kinder Morgan was also recognized by Fortune as the top company among all industries for “Quality of Management.” Mr. Kinder, who receives a salary of $1 a year (no bonuses, stock options or restricted stock grants) is a past recipient of Morningstar’s CEO of the Year award.

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 is a life trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

Kinder Morgan owns an interest in or operates approximately 36,000 miles of pipelines that transport primarily natural gas, refined petroleum products, CO2 and crude oil; and over 170 terminals that store, transfer and handle such products as gasoline, ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel. Knight owns the general partner interest of KMP, the largest publicly traded pipeline limited partnership in the United States with an enterprise value of over $20 billion. KMR is a limited liability company and its only significant assets are the partnership units it owns in KMP.