On May 6, 2020, at the recommendation of the Company’s Governance Committee, the Board of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. appointed David J. Lesar and Barry T. Smitherman, to the Board effective immediately. Messrs. Lesar and Smitherman have been elected to serve as directors of the Company until the expiration of their respective terms on the date of the Company’s annual meeting of shareholders in 2021 and until their successors are elected and qualified. Messrs. Lesar and Smitherman are expected to stand for election as directors at the annual meeting of shareholders in 2021. Messrs. Lesar and Smitherman will serve on the Company’s newly established Business Review and Evaluation Committee, and Mr. Lesar will also join the sub-committee of the Board that is tasked with supporting the Board’s on-going permanent CEO selection process. Dave Lesar was named the interim CEO of Health Care Service Corporation in July 2019, having joined the company’s board of directors in 2018, and will step down as HCSC’s interim CEO on June 1, 2020. HCSC is the largest privately-held health insurer in the U.S. He was the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Halliburton from 2000 to 2017 and Executive Chairman of the Board from June 2017 until December 2018. At the company, he also served as CFO from 1995 through May 1997 and President and Chief Operating Officer from May 1997 through August 2010. Mr. Lesar joined Halliburton in 1993. He has also served on the board of directors of several companies, most recently Agrium, Inc. as well as Lyondell Chemical Co., Southern Co., Cordant Technologies, and Mirant. Trained as a Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Lesar spent 16 years at Arthur Andersen where he began in 1978. He received both his B.S. and MBA from the University of Wisconsin. Barry Smitherman is the principal of Barry Smitherman, P.C. and a former partner in the energy regulatory group at Vinson & Elkins LLP. He served as Texas Railroad Commissioner from 2011 through 2014, and was Chairman of the Commission from March 2012 through August 2014. Prior to joining the TX RRC, Mr. Smitherman was Chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, a position he held from November 2007 through July 2011. His service as a PUCT Commissioner began in April 2004. Over this time period, he served two terms on the U.S. Department of Energy Electricity Advisory Committee, on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), Chairman of the NARUC Gas Committee, on the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) Board of Directors, and on the Regional State Committee of the Southwest Power Pool (SPP). Prior to beginning public service, Mr. Smitherman spent 16 years as a public finance investment banker with J.P. Morgan Securities, The First Boston Corporation, Lazard, and Banc One Capital Markets.