Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 2, 2003
CARL L. ENGLISH is President and Chief Executive Officer of CMS
Energy-Gas. His career with Consumers Energy spans three decades.
He became President and Chief Executive Officer of the utility's
gas strategic business unit on Oct. 1, 1999, and is responsible
for all aspects of the utility's gas business, including managing
gas operations, gas supply, gas transmission and customer
service. Before taking control of the gas operations, Mr. English
was Consumers Energy's Vice President of Electric Transmission
and Distribution, a position he assumed in 1996. In that post, he
managed the utility's statewide electric transmission and
distribution, and customer service activities. Mr. English was
named Vice President of Gas Operations and Customer Services in
1990, with a change in 1991 to Vice President, Energy
Distribution Services. He became Vice President, Electric
Distribution in 1994. He joined Consumers Energy in 1969 and has
held a progression of increasingly responsible customer service
and general service positions, mainly at the corporate
headquarters in Jackson. In 1975, he served as Customer Services
Superintendent in Kalamazoo and returned to Jackson in 1976 to
become Staff Assistant to the Chairman of the Board. In 1989, he
was appointed Executive Manager of Customer Services. Mr. English
earned an Associates degree from Jackson Community College. He
went on to Michigan State University, where he earned a Bachelor
of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in 1968 and a Master's
degree in Business Administration in 1969. Profile
Energy and an overview of things as they are now?
Mr. English: We've been around for about 117 years as a gas and
electric combined
