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Executive Team Members

Rodney J. Sailor

President and Chief Executive Officer

Sailor was named president and chief executive officer of Enable in January 2016 after serving as executive vice president and chief financial officer since April 2014. Prior to joining Enable, Sailor was senior vice president and chief financial officer at WPX Energy. He served as vice president and treasurer for The Williams Companies and assisted in the formation of two master limited partnerships. Throughout his 27-year career at Williams, Sailor served in leadership positions focused on corporate finance, strategic planning and development, accounting and international finance.

Deanna Farmer

Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer

Prior to joining Enable, Farmer served in a variety of roles with increasing responsibility at Access Midstream and its former parent, Chesapeake Energy. Before joining Chesapeake in 2005, she served in a broad range of leadership positions focused on information technology, regulatory, finance and accounting within the energy sector.

John Laws

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Laws was named as chief financial officer in January 2016 after serving as Enable’s treasurer since 2013. Laws has more than 19 years of experience as a finance executive, the majority of which have been devoted to the energy sector, serving in a variety of leadership positions in corporate finance and business and corporate development.

Mark Schroeder

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer

Prior to this position, Schroeder was vice president and deputy general counsel of CenterPoint Energy, Inc., overseeing all regulatory attorneys since July 1, 2011. Since 2003, Schroeder has served as vice president and general counsel of CenterPoint’s midstream business unit. He previously worked at El Paso Energy, and in private law practice, and has nearly 30 years of industry experience.

Tom Levescy

Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller

Prior to this position, Levescy was the chief accounting officer at Enogex, where he had previously served as controller in 2005. Before joining Enogex, he had more than 10 years of experience in public accounting.

Board of Directors

Luke R. Corbett

Director, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kerr-McGee Corporation

Corbett was appointed to the Enable board in October 2020 by OGE Energy. He was employed by Kerr-McGee Corporation for 17 years prior to his retirement in September 2006, having served as chairman and CEO since 1997 and president and chief operating officer from 1995 to 1997. Corbett currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Chesapeake Energy Corporation and OGE Energy, and he served as a member of the board of directors of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation from 2006 to 2014.

Robert G. Gwin

Director and Chairman, Former President, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Gwin was appointed to the Enable board in August 2020 by CenterPoint Energy. He was president of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation until its acquisition by Occidental Petroleum Corporation in late 2019. He previously was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Anadarko from 2009 to 2018. Gwin joined Anadarko in 2006 and was a member of Anadarko’s executive committee since 2008. Additionally, he concurrently served as chairman of the board of Western Gas Partners, LP from 2010 to 2018 and previously as the partnership’s president and CEO from 2007 to 2010. Earlier in his career, Mr. Gwin held various positions in corporate finance and executive management.

Alan N. Harris

Director, Former Chief Development Officer and Chief Operations Officer, Spectra Energy Corporation

Harris has been a director since February 2015. He retired from Spectra Energy, which he joined in 1982 and where he served in multiple leadership roles, including as senior advisor to the chairman and as chief development and operations officer.

Harris is the Compensation Committee Chairman and a member of both the Audit Committee and Conflicts Committee.

Ronnie K. Irani

Director, President and CEO, RKI Energy Resources

Irani joined the board in March 2016. Prior to forming RKI Energy Resources, Irani was president and CEO of RKI Exploration and Production, which was acquired by WPX Energy in 2015. In addition, he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Western U.S. business unit for Dominion Resources and as an executive vice president at Louis Dreyfus National Gas Corp.

Irani is a member of the Audit Committee and Conflicts Committee.

Peter H. Kind

Director, Executive Director of Energy Infrastructure Advocates

Kind has been a director since February 2014 and currently serves as  executive director of Energy Infrastructure Advocates. From 2005 to 2009, Kind was a managing director of Bank of America Securities. He is a CPA with experience in the audit of large public energy companies and from 2009 to 2011, he was a senior managing director of Macquarie Capital.

Kind is the Chairman of both the Audit Committee and Conflicts Committee.

Rodney J. Sailor

Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, Enable Midstream Partners

Sailor was named president and chief executive officer of Enable in January 2016 after serving as executive vice president and chief financial officer since April 2014. Prior to joining Enable, Sailor was senior vice president and chief financial officer at WPX Energy. He served as vice president and treasurer for The Williams Companies and assisted in the formation of two master limited partnerships. Throughout his 27-year career at Williams, Sailor served in leadership positions focused on corporate finance, strategic planning and development, accounting and international finance.

Sean Trauschke

Director, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of OGE Energy

Trauschke has been with OGE Energy since 2009 where, prior to his current role, he served as chief financial officer. Before joining OGE Energy, he was senior vice president of investor relations and financial planning at Duke Energy.

Trauschke is a member of the Compensation Committee.

R. A. Walker

 Director, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Walker was appointed to the Enable board in August 2020 by CenterPoint Energy and is currently a senior advisor to Crane Capital. Walker was the former chairman and CEO of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation until August 2019, when the company was purchased by Occidental Petroleum. He joined Anadarko in 2005 as senior vice president and chief financial officer, later serving as president and chief operating officer before becoming CEO in 2012. Prior to his time at Anadarko, he worked in the oil and gas industry, investment and commercial banking and as an institutional investor.

Walker is a member of the Compensation Committee.