Richard Kinder

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Mr. Richard Kinder is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Kinder Morgan. He served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Kinder Morgan Tampaplex Terminal. He is the Founder and serves as Chairman at Kinder Foundation. He also serves as an Executive Chairman at El Paso Energy Capital Trust I. He served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at El Paso Pipeline Partners. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at Kinder Morgan Energy Partners. He served as Executive Chairman and Co-founder at Kinder Morgan Management. He is responsible for developing and executing the company's vision and strategy and allocating capital to Kinder Morgan business units in a disciplined manner. Under his leadership, Kinder Morgan has grown from a small company with 175 employees and an enterprise value of $325 million to a corporation with almost 12,000 employees and an enterprise value of approximately $100 billion. He receives a salary of $1 a year and owns approximately 11 percent of Kinder Morgan. Kinder Morgan is one of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Companies in America and was previously recognized as the top company among all industries for "Quality of Management." He is a past recipient of Morningstar's CEO of the Year award. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Missouri and served in Vietnam as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He also served as an Independent Director at Zenith Energy Management. He is a Life Trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is an Angel investor.