Mirant Appoints Jose P. Leviste, Jr. CEO of Mirant Philippines
April 23 2006 - 9:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
MANILA, Philippines, April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mirant
Corporation (NYSE:MIR) today announced the appointment of Mr. Jose
(Joey) P. Leviste, Jr., 61, as chairman, president and chief
executive officer of Mirant Philippines, and as a senior vice
president of Mirant Corporation. "Mr. Leviste brings tremendous
experience and expertise to Mirant which will be invaluable in our
Philippines business," said Edward R. Muller, chairman and chief
executive officer of Mirant Corporation. Mr. Leviste is an
internationally known and respected leader in the Philippines and
international industry. He currently serves as chairman of the
board of Climax Arimco Mining Corporation (CAMC); chairman of the
board and chief executive officer, Politstrat International, Inc.;
chairman of the board, Pacific Rim Innovation and Management
Exponents (PRIMEX), Inc.; and chairman of the board of the
Philippine Business Leaders Forum (PBLF), the country associate of
the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Corporate Network. In
accepting his position with Mirant, he will resign from Politstrat
immediately and will transition from PRIMEX, the PBLF and CAMC over
the next year. Mr. Leviste will remain a key Philippine investor in
CAMC, a publicly-traded company in Australia. During his
private-sector career, he served as vice chairman and treasurer of
the Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corporation (PASAR)
and president and chief executive officer of the Philippine
National Oil Company's (PNOC) FILOIL Development and Management
Corporation. He has also had a distinguished, 13-year public sector
career with the Government of the Philippines during which he
served as Secretary General of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet,
Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture, and Executive Director of the Energy Development
Board. He began his professional life with Caltex Philippines, Inc.
and Proctor & Gamble, Philippines, working in budgeting and
accounting functions Mr. Leviste has served numerous Philippines
and international civic and business associations in senior
positions. These organizations include Philippine Constitution
Association (PHILCONSA), the Philippine-Australia Business Council
(PABC), the Philippine Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee
(PPECC) and the Instituto Libertad y Democracia (ILD) headed by
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto. While in the private sector,
he continues to assist the Philippines government in various
capacities. He was recently appointed a member of the consultative
commission to review the 1987 Constitution and also served as a
member of the Department of Energy's independent committee on the
review of the oil deregulation law. He holds a Master of Business
Administration from Columbia University, Master of Economics from
Fordham University and Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Ateneo de
Manila University. Mr. Leviste succeeds J.R. Harris as head of
Mirant's Philippines business. Mirant is a competitive energy
company that produces and sells electricity in the United States,
the Caribbean, and the Philippines. Mirant owns or leases
approximately 17,500 megawatts of electric generating capacity
globally. The company operates an asset management and energy
marketing organization from its headquarters in Atlanta. For more
information, please visit http://www.mirant.com/. DATASOURCE:
Mirant Corporation CONTACT: Corry Leigh, +1-678-579-3111, , U.S.
Investor Relations: Mary Ann Arico, +1-678-579-7553, , or Sarah
Stashak, +1-678-579-6940, , Stockholder inquiries: +1-678-579-7777
Web site: http://www.mirant.com/
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