Executive Bio

Louise Kitchen is chief operating officer of Enron Americas, a division of Enron Wholesale Services responsible for North America, South America and Canada. Prior to joining the Americas business, Ms. Kitchen was president and CEO of Enron Net Works LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp. which identifies new market opportunities into which Enron can extend its network business model.

Ms. Kitchen joined Enron in the spring of 1994 with responsibility for building a gas trading business for Enron in Europe. Ms. Kitchen played a leading role in the market development as a member of several industry panels, steering the development of the competitive market place. Enron is now the leading natural gas trader in Europe. Ms. Kitchen was also responsible for Enron Europe's retail operation in the UK from 1997-99 where she introduced electricity sales as an incremental offering to natural gas, which led to a 10-fold increase in the customer base.

Ms. Kitchen is also president and chief operating officer of EnronOnline, LLC. Louise was responsible for the development, launch and operation of EnronOnline. EnronOnline was launched November 29, 1999 and offers Enron's customers the ability to transact directly with all of Enron's trading desks throughout the world in every commodity via the Internet. To date, over 685,000 transactions have been completed via EnronOnline which have a notional value of over $420 billion dollars.

Prior to joining Enron Ms. Kitchen was employed by PowerGen, where she worked in electricity trading before taking responsibility for PowerGen's gas trading activities.

Enron is one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas and communications companies. The company, with revenues of $101 billion in 2000, markets electricity and natural gas, delivers physical commodities and financial and risk management services to customers around the world, and has developed an intelligent network platform to facilitate online business. Fortune magazine has named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years. Enron's Internet address is www.enron.com. The stock is traded under the ticker symbol "ENE."

Date of birth: May 9, 1969