Integrates natural gas, electricity, gas engineering, gas supply & customer service operations CHICAGO, April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Larry T. Borgard, president and Chief Operating Officer of Integrys Gas Group, has been named president and COO - Utilities. In this capacity, he will also assume the roles of president and CEO of Wisconsin Public Service and CEO of Upper Peninsula Power Company. The appointment becomes effective April 5, 2009. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090403/CG94236) In making this appointment, Integrys President and CEO Charlie A. Schrock noted that this brings all the company's regulated natural-gas and electric utility operations under a single executive leader. This includes those companies' supply, engineering and customer service functions. "Larry has a unique blend of leadership experience and operational expertise that makes him the perfect person for this role," said Schrock. "He's well known and respected across Integrys and within the electric and gas communities. We'll be looking to him to bring a system-wide view of planning to our work and to best-practice systems and processes to our operations." Borgard has spent more than 24 years in the energy industry. He has served as leader of the Integrys Gas Group since the company was formed in early 2007. The gas group includes all of Integrys' regulated natural gas businesses, including operations, gas engineering, gas supply and customer relations. Before that, he served as president and COO of Energy Delivery for Wisconsin Public Service and president and CEO of Upper Peninsula Power Company. He began his career with Wisconsin Public Service in 1984. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. Borgard is involved in various energy industry groups that focus on reliability and energy policy issues. He serves on the board of directors of the American Gas Association and the Midwest Energy Association, is an Executive Advisor of the Metropolitan (Chicago) Planning Council, a member of The Executives' Club of Chicago and the Research Advisory Committee of the Gas Technology Institute, a national research and development organization for the natural gas industry. About Integrys Energy Group, Inc. Integrys Energy Group is a diversified holding company with regulated utility operations operating through six wholly owned subsidiaries, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, North Shore Gas Company, Upper Peninsula Power Company, Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation, and Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation; nonregulated operations serving the competitive energy markets in the United States and Canada through its wholly owned nonregulated subsidiary, Integrys Energy Services; and also a 34% equity ownership interest in American Transmission Company LLC (an electric transmission company operating in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois). More information about Integrys Energy Group, Inc. is available online at http://www.integrysgroup.com/ http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090403/CG94236 http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Integrys Energy Group, Inc. CONTACT: Tom Meinz, Executive Vice President, External Affairs of Integrys Energy Group, Inc., Media Line, 1-800-977-2250 Web Site: http://www.integrysgroup.com/

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