Robert Thomas
Chief Legal Officer
Green Mountain Energy Company

Robert P. Thomas joined Green Mountain Energy Company in January 2001 as vice president, general counsel and secretary and was appointed Chief Legal Officer in May 2003. Bob has over 25 years of domestic and international legal experience. He manages the company's legal, regulatory and governmental affairs, information technology, and human resources functions. Bob served as the Independent Retail Electric Providers Segment representative on the Board of Directors of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas during 2008 and 2009.

From 1988 to 2000, Bob held a variety of legal positions with Chiquita Brands International, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. At Chiquita, Bob handled acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and financings in the U.S., Europe and Latin America and had responsibility for domestic and international litigation and arbitration matters. He also provided antitrust counseling for Chiquita's businesses around the world.

Prior to 1988, Bob was with the law firm of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he handled commercial litigation matters in both state and federal courts. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1981 with a juris doctor degree, Bob held a clerkship with the Hon. Raymond E. Shannon of the First District Court of Appeals of Ohio. He received his bachelor's of science degree in finance in 1978 from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

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