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B. Keith Trent
President — Commercial Businesses
Duke Energy

Mr. Trent is group executive and president of the Commercial Businesses organization for Duke Energy. He is responsible for Duke Energy Generation Services; Duke Energy Renewables; Midwest Commercial Generation; Commercial Transmission; and Duke Energy International, with operations in Latin America. Mr. Trent is also responsible for commercial strategy and policy. He assumed his current role in July 2009.

Previously, Mr. Trent served as group executive and chief strategy, policy and regulatory officer for Duke Energy. He led the areas of strategy, state and federal policy and government affairs, corporate communications, community affairs, technology initiatives, and environmental health and safety policy.

Mr. Trent has more than 18 years of experience as an accomplished legal counselor. He joined Duke Energy in May 2002 as general counsel, litigation. He was responsible for managing all major litigation and government investigations for the company. Mr. Trent was named group vice president, general counsel and secretary in June 2005 and group executive and chief development officer in April 2006. In that role, he led corporate development, including corporate strategy, and mergers and acquisitions. He was named group executive and chief strategy and policy officer in September 2006.

Prior to joining Duke Energy, Mr. Trent served as a partner in the law firm Snell, Brannian & Trent, since October 1991. Prior to that, he was an attorney at Jackson Walker in Dallas, Texas. He began his career as a reservoir/production engineer with Arco Oil & Gas in Houston in January 1982.

Mr. Trent earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, with honors, from Southern Methodist University and a Juris Doctor degree, with high honors, from the University of Texas College of Law. He also completed the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program and the Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives at MIT. Mr. Trent is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and Texas, as well as numerous federal district courts and the United States Supreme Court. He is also a member of various bar associations.

Duke Energy, one of the largest power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers electricity to approximately 4 million customers in the Carolinas and the Midwest. The company also distributes natural gas in Ohio and Kentucky. Its commercial power and international businesses operate diverse power generation assets in North America and Latin America, including a growing renewable energy portfolio. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.