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Ken Whipple Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors Ken Whipple is chairman of the board of CMS Energy Corporation (CMS), a Michigan-based integrated energy company. He was also CEO of CMS Energy from May 2002 until October 2004, to lead CMS’ financial turnaround. He has been a director since 1993. Whipple is a director and member of the audit committees of Korn/Ferry International (KFY) and certain J.P. Morgan mutual funds. He is vice chairman of Atlantic Industrial, a private company. He also serves on the advisory boards of Miller Buckfire and Sterling Venture Partners. He was a director of Associates First Capital (AFS) until its sale to Citigroup in November 2000, and was lead director of Galileo International (GLC) until its sale to Cendant in September 2001, and was a director of AB Volvo from 1999 to 2006. Whipple retired from Ford Motor Company in 1999, after a distinguished 40-year career. After four years as president of Ford Credit in the early 1980s, he was elected Ford’s vice president - corporate strategy. He then moved to Ford of Europe, where he served as chairman of the board and CEO from 1986 to 1988. In 1988, Whipple was promoted to executive vice president of Ford and president of the Ford Financial Services Group, which accounted for approximately half of Ford’s net income in the 1990s. He took on the added responsibility of chairman and CEO of Ford Credit in 1997. Whipple was on the Dean’s List at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business and engineering. He is a graduate of the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving. | 