CMS Energy names new CFO, executive vice-president

July 30, 2002
Thomas J. Webb has been appointed executive vice-president and chief financial officer of CMS Energy Corp., effective Aug. 5.

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, July 29 -- Thomas J. Webb has been appointed executive vice-president and chief financial officer of CMS Energy Corp., effective Aug. 5. Webb succeeds Alan M. Wright, who will leave the Dearborn, Mich.-based company Aug. 16 to join another firm outside the energy industry.

Most recently, Webb served as executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Battle Creek, Mich.-based Kellogg Co. He also served as vice-president and chief financial officer of Visteon Corp., Dearborn, during 1996-99. He started his career at Ford Motor Co. in 1977.

Wright joined CMS Energy subsidiary Consumers Energy as treasurer and vice-president, finance, in May 1991. He became senior vice-president and chief financial officer of CMS Energy and Consumers Energy in December 1991 and then was named executive vice-president, chief financial officer, and chief administrative officer in December 2000.