Ms. Dang has served as a director of KMI since 2017 and became the Chief Executive Officer of KMI on August 1, 2023. She served in the role of President of KMI from 2018 to August 2023. She also served as a director of KML from 2017 until 2019. Ms. Dang has served in various management roles for the Kinder Morgan companies since 2001 and in senior executive roles since 2005, including as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of KMI from 2005 to 2018 and as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of KMR and KMGP from 2005 until 2014. Prior to Kinder Morgan, among other things, Ms. Dang spent six years working in real estate investment at Goldman Sachs. Ms. Dang holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from Texas A&M University. Ms. Dang s years of leadership as President, as Chief Financial Officer and now as Chief Executive Officer, together with her extensive business acumen, provide our Board with necessary strategic insight. Ms. Dang also provides a diverse perspective that is important to our Board.