People: El Paso Electric Co (EE.N)
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Shockley |
68 | 2012 | Chief Executive Officer, Director |
Michael Parks |
53 | 2005 | Independent Vice Chairman of the Board |
David Carpenter |
57 | 2009 | Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President |
Hector Puente |
56 | 2012 | Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President |
Mary Kipp |
45 | 2010 | Chief Compliance Officer, Senior Vice President, General Counsel |
Rocky Miracle |
60 | 2009 | Senior Vice President - Corporate Planning and Development |
Nathan Hirschi |
49 | 2010 | Vice President, Controller |
Patricia Holland-Branch |
69 | 2011 | Director |
Catherine Allen |
66 | 2009 | Independent Director |
John Brown |
68 | 2003 | Independent Director |
James Cicconi |
60 | 1997 | Independent Director |
Edward Escudero |
42 | 2012 | Independent Director |
James Harris |
54 | 1996 | Independent Director |
Woodley Hunt |
67 | 2012 | Independent Director |
Eric Siegel |
55 | 1996 | Independent Director |
Stephen Wertheimer |
62 | 1996 | Independent Director |
Charles Yamarone |
54 | 1996 | Independent Director |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Thomas Shockley |
Mr. Thomas V. Shockley, III, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Director of El Paso Electric Co. He is retired in 2004 after a lengthy career in the regulated utility industry. From 2000 to 2004, he served as the Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of American Electric Power Company, Inc. (“AEP”), one of the electric utilities in the United States. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Shockley was President and Chief Operating Officer of Central and South West Corporation, which combined with American Electric Power of Columbus, Ohio in 2000 to form AEP. In his career, Mr. Shockley served in various other executive and management positions in the utility and energy industries. He previously served on the boards of directors of the Foundation Coal Company and Cellnet. He also currently serves on the board of Chase Energy Development. Mr. Shockley has been a Director of the Company since 2010 and serves on the company External Affairs, Energy Resources and Environmental Oversight and Executive Committees. In January 2012, upon Mr. Shockley’s appointment as Interim Chief Executive Officer, he resigned from the company Compensation Committee. |
Michael Parks |
Mr. Michael K. Parks is Independent Vice Chairman of the Board of El Paso Electric Company, since November 15, 2005. He serves as Managing Director of Crescent Capital Group, LP (“Crescent”) and for limited purposes as a Managing Director of Trust Company of the West (“TCW”). Prior to joining Crescent and TCW, Mr. Parks held various executive level positions at Aurora National Life Assurance Company from 1993 to 2000, including Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Investment Officer from 1996 to October 2000. From 1981 to 1992, he held various positions at Salomon Brothers Inc. He has been a director of the Company since 1996 and served as Vice Chairman of the Board from November 2005 through July 2012; when he was appointed Chairman of the Board. He also serves on Audit, Compensation, Executive, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. He served as a director of E*Trade Financial Corp. (formerly, E* Trade Group Inc.) from April 2003 until May 2012 and served on its audit committee and finance risk oversight committee. |
David Carpenter |
Mr. David G. Carpenter is Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President of El Paso Electric Company, since August 2009. He has been Vice President - Regulatory Services and Controller from September 2008 to August 2009; Vice President – Corporate Planning and Controller from August 2005 to September 2008. |
Hector Puente |
Mr. Hector R. Puente has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President of El Paso Electric Company, effective June 01, 2012. He resigned as Senior Vice President - Operations of the Company, effective June 01, 2012. Puente, who has worked at EPE for more than 30 years, has served in various capacities, including Vice President of Transmission and Distribution, Vice President of Distribution Operations and Vice President of Generation, as well as other executive, management and engineering positions. Puente holds a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso and is a licensed professional engineer. |
Mary Kipp |
Ms. Mary E. Kipp is Chief Compliance Officer, Senior Vice President, General Counsel of El Paso Electric Company, since June 2010. She has served as Vice President – Legal and Chief Compliance Officer from December 2009 to June 2010; Assistant General Counsel and Director of FERC Compliance from December 2007 to December 2009; Senior Enforcement Attorney – FERC from January 2004 to December 2007. |
Rocky Miracle |
Mr. Rocky R. Miracle is Senior Vice President - Corporate Planning and Development of El Paso Electric Company, since August 2009. He has been Vice President - Corporate Planning from September 2008 to August 2009; Director of Business Operations Support – Texas Operations for American Electric Power Services Corporation from August 2004 to August 2008. |
Nathan Hirschi |
Mr. Nathan T. Hirschi is Vice President and Controller of El Paso Electric Company. Mr. Hirschi has served as the Company’s Vice President-Special Projects since December 2009 to February 2010. He has been a Partner for KPMG LLP from October 2003 to April 2009. |
Patricia Holland-Branch |
Ms. Patricia Z. Holland-Branch is Director of El Paso Electric Company. Ms. Holland-Branch is the Chief Executive Officer and 100% shareholder of The Facilities Connection, Inc., headquartered in El Paso, Texas. Her company provides its national and international customers with professional services, including interior design, project management, logistics, and installation. Ms. Holland-Branch has been a director of the Company since 1997 and serves on External Affairs and Energy Resources and Environmental Committees. She currently serves as a member of the Borderplex Alliance and is a former director for El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Regional Economic Development Corporation, and El Paso Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as well as a past chairman of the board for the Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce. |
Catherine Allen |
Ms. Catherine A. Allen is Independent Director of El Paso Electric Company, since May 2009. Since 1996, she has been the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of The Santa Fe Group, a strategic consulting company providing services to financial institutions and related infrastructure companies. Previously, Ms. Allen was a Vice President of Business Development and Alliances of Citicorp, where her responsibilities included developing and managing strategic alliances with technology and telecommunications companies for technology-based products and services. She is the President and Chairman of the Board of the Mark Twain Research Foundation. She was formerly CEO of BITS, a financial services consortium and non-profit industry association from 1997 to 2007. She serves on the board of Stewart Title Guaranty Company, Synovus Financial Corporation and the advisory board for Citibank Global Transaction Business. |
John Brown |
Mr. John Robert Brown is Independent Director of El Paso Electric Company., since June 3, 2003. He has been the Owner and President of Brownco Capital, LLC, a private investment company, since November 2007. From May 1992 to March 2008, Mr. Brown was the President and Chairman of the Board of Desert Eagle Distributing of El Paso, Inc., a distributor of Anheuser-Busch products in west Texas and eastern New Mexico. He currently serves on the boards of directors of WestStar Bank and The University of Texas at El Paso Development board. |
James Cicconi |
Mr. James W. Cicconi is Independent Director of El Paso Electric Company, since 1997. He has been Senior Executive Vice President of External and Legislative Affairs for AT&T Services, Inc. since November 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Cicconi served as Executive Vice President for Law and Government Affairs and General Counsel of AT&T Corp. He served as a partner of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP from 1991 to 1998. While practicing law at Akin Gump, Mr. Cicconi specialized in administrative and regulatory law, as well as federal legislation, representing a range of corporate clients. He was also involved in a number of transactions, including public sales, restructurings and acquisitions. Mr. Cicconi served as Deputy Chief of Staff to President George H. W. Bush and also served as the Senior Issues Advisor to President Bush’s 1988 and 1992 election campaigns. |
Edward Escudero |
Mr. Edward Escudero has been appointed as Independent Director of El Paso Electric Co., effective December 19, 2012. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of High Desert Capital LLC, a finance company specializing in providing various types of capital alternatives to small-to-mid-size companies. Previously, Mr. Escudero was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of C&R Distributing, a distributor of fuel and lubricants and was the owner of various convenience stores in West Texas and Southern New Mexico. He also served as Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of Petro Stopping Centers, LP, where he held vital roles of managing various departments including accounting, legal, human resources, audit, financial planning and information systems. He serves on a number of community boards, including the Medical Center of the Americas Foundation, Capital Bank, El Paso Community Foundation Investment Committee, El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and University of Texas at El Paso Centennial Commission. Formerly, Mr. Escudero served on the El Paso Water Utility Public Service Board. |
James Harris |
Mr. James W. Harris is Independent Director of El Paso Electric Company, since 1996. He founded Seneca Financial Group Inc. in 1993 and currently serves as its President. Previously, Mr. Harris served as Managing Director at Lehman Brothers and Head of the Financial Restructuring Group. Before joining Lehman Brothers, he spent ten years at Citibank N.A.’s Institutional Recovery Group. From 2001 to 2003, he was an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business in New York. Since 2006, Mr. Harris has been an adjunct professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business Administration at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he teaches a course on Managing Business Turnarounds. He served as a director of Peregrine Systems Inc. and was a member of its audit committee. Mr. Harris currently serves on the advisory board of the Dare County Center and co-chairs its board’s long-term planning committee. |
Woodley Hunt |
Mr. Woodley L. Hunt has been appointed as Independent Director of El Paso Electric Co., effective December 19, 2012. Mr. Hunt is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hunt Companies, Inc. (“Hunt”). Hunt is an industry's real estate company dedicated to building value through development, investment, and management. For decades, Hunt has focused on the key areas of public-private partnerships, community development, real asset investment management, and multifamily housing. Mr. Hunt also serves as Chairman of the Hunt Family Foundation, a private family foundation. He received a number of honors and awards including being recognized as one of the “Philanthropists of the Year” by the West Texas-Southern New Mexico Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Mr. Hunt also serves on various national, state and local advisory and development boards including the Texas Business Leadership Council, Complete College America, Medical Center of the Americas Foundation, College for all Texas Foundation, Visitors of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center-Houston, the Borderplex Alliance, Council for Continuous Improvement and Innovation in Texas Higher Education, University of Texas at El Paso, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Western Governors University, WestStar Bank and Tom Lea Institute. |
Eric Siegel |
Mr. Eric B. Siegel is Independent Director of El Paso Electric Company, since 1996. He is a retired Limited Partner of Apollo Advisors, LP (“Apollo”) and has been an independent business consultant since 1995. Since 2004, Mr. Siegel has served as a consultant to and on the advisory board of the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club. He previously served as a Principal and was a Limited Partner of Apollo Advisors, LP (a predecessor to Apollo Management, LP) and Lion Advisors, LP. Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Siegel was a partner of Irell & Manella LLP, a law firm practicing corporate law. He serves on Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. He also serves as Chairman of Executive Committee. He serves as the lead independent director of Ares Capital Corporation, where he has been a board member and member of the audit committee since 2004. Mr. Siegel has previously served as a director of a number of public and private companies, including Kerzner International Limited (“Kerzner”) where he was a director and chairman of its audit and compensation committees from April 1994 to 2006. He rejoined the Kerzner Board in 2008. |
Stephen Wertheimer |
Mr. Stephen N. Wertheimer is Independent Director of El Paso Electric Company., since 1996. He is a Managing Director and Founding Partner of W Capital Partners. He has over 30 years of experience in investment banking and principal investments. Prior to founding W Capital Partners, Mr. Wertheimer served as a Managing Director of CRT Capital Group, LLC. He was a Founder and Managing Member of Water Capital Management from 1991 to 1997. From 1988 to 1991, he served as a Managing Director and the Group Head of Investment Banking-Asia of PaineWebber Incorporated. Mr. Wertheimer was a Managing Director at First Chicago Corporation, where he specialized in tax-structured domestic and international principal investments. He was a Vice President with Bank of America’s tax financing group making equity investments for the parent corporation. Mr. Wertheimer has board experience having served on the boards of over thirty companies, both public and private. Mr. Wertheimer has been a director of the Company since 1996 and serves as a member of the Executive and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees and is Chairman of the Energy Resources and Environmental Committee. He is also a member of the board of directors of AOptix Technologies, Dynacast International, Inc. and World Kitchen, Inc. |
Charles Yamarone |
Mr. Charles A. Yamarone is Independent Director of El Paso Electric Company, since 1996. He has been a Director of Houlihan Lokey since November 2009, where he is a senior member of the Debt Capital Markets Group. Prior to that, Mr. Yamarone worked for over 18 years at Libra Securities (“Libra”) and its predecessors. At Libra, Mr. Yamarone served in a wide variety of roles and was involved in all areas of Libra’s business as an institutional broker-dealer, including capital markets, corporate finance, sales and trading, research, legal, compliance, operations and administration. Mr. Yamarone has been a Director of the Company since 1996 and is Chairman of the company Audit Committee and a member of the company Compensation Committee. He was a director of Continental Airlines, Inc. from 1995 until its merger into United Continental Holdings, Inc. in October 2010 and was chairman of Continental’s human resources committee and a member of its corporate governance and social responsibility committee. Since October 2010, he has been a director of United Continental Holdings, Inc. and is chairman of its compensation committee and a member of its executive committee. Until January 2012, he was a director of New Millennium Homes, LLC, a privately-owned homebuilder, and served on its audit committee. He also previously served as a director of four other public companies. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Thomas Shockley |
1,689,860 |
Michael Parks |
-- |
David Carpenter |
1,023,920 |
Hector Puente |
928,294 |
Mary Kipp |
731,717 |
Rocky Miracle |
706,517 |
Nathan Hirschi |
-- |
Patricia Holland-Branch |
-- |
Catherine Allen |
-- |
John Brown |
-- |
James Cicconi |
-- |
Edward Escudero |
-- |
James Harris |
-- |
Woodley Hunt |
-- |
Eric Siegel |
-- |
Stephen Wertheimer |
-- |
Charles Yamarone |
-- |
As Of 30 Dec 2012
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Thomas Shockley |
0 | 0 |
Michael Parks |
0 | 0 |
David Carpenter |
0 | 0 |
Hector Puente |
100,000 | 704,000 |
Mary Kipp |
0 | 0 |
Rocky Miracle |
0 | 0 |
Nathan Hirschi |
0 | 0 |
Patricia Holland-Branch |
0 | 0 |
Catherine Allen |
0 | 0 |
John Brown |
0 | 0 |
James Cicconi |
0 | 0 |
Edward Escudero |
0 | 0 |
James Harris |
0 | 0 |
Woodley Hunt |
0 | 0 |
Eric Siegel |
0 | 0 |
Stephen Wertheimer |
0 | 0 |
Charles Yamarone |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
ESCUDERO EDWARD |
361 | $35.31 |
PARKS MICHAEL K |
1,770 | $35.31 |
HUNT WOODY L |
424 | $35.31 |
ALLEN CATHERINE A |
241 | $35.31 |
HOLLAND-BRANCH PATRICIA ZANGWILL |
298 | $35.31 |
WERTHEIMER STEPHEN N |
432 | $35.31 |
HARRIS JAMES WHELAN |
2,000 | $36.30 |
YAMARONE CHARLES A |
3,500 | $0.00 |
HARRIS JAMES WHELAN |
3,500 | $0.00 |
CICCONI JAMES W |
3,500 | $0.00 |
WERTHEIMER STEPHEN N |
3,500 | $0.00 |
SIEGEL ERIC B |
3,500 | $0.00 |
HUNT WOODY L |
3,500 | $0.00 |
HOLLAND-BRANCH PATRICIA ZANGWILL |
3,500 | $0.00 |
BROWN JOHN ROBERT |
3,500 | $0.00 |
ALLEN CATHERINE A |
3,500 | $0.00 |
PARKS MICHAEL K |
3,500 | $0.00 |
ESCUDERO EDWARD |
3,500 | $0.00 |
HUNT WOODY L |
3,000 | $38.39 |
PARKS MICHAEL K |
1,842 | $33.65 |
HOLLAND-BRANCH PATRICIA ZANGWILL |
237 | $33.65 |
WERTHEIMER STEPHEN N |
542 | $33.65 |
ALLEN CATHERINE A |
282 | $33.65 |
WERTHEIMER STEPHEN N |
310 | $0.00 |
WERTHEIMER STEPHEN N |
310 | $0.00 |

