OGE Energy Corp. Names Scott Forbes Chief Accounting Officer

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The OGE Energy Corp. Board of Directors today named Scott Forbes Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. Forbes comes to OGE Energy from Texas-New Mexico Power Co., where he has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2002.

Don Rowlett, OGE Energy Vice President and Controller, will transition to a new role, Chief Accounting Policy Officer, responsible for the development and implementation of accounting and tax policies for OGE Energy and its subsidiaries.

Both positions, effective Aug. 8, will report to Jim Hatfield, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

"Scott Forbes brings an ideal mix of skills and experience to our company," Hatfield said. "We look forward to his leadership of our accounting operations with Don Rowlett providing full-time focus on accounting and tax policy."

Forbes, who earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Texas Tech University in 1979, has served in leadership positions in accounting in the electric utility industry since 1984 with companies including Gulf States Utilities Co., Entergy Corp., and Texas-New Mexico Power.

Also today, OGE Energy announced the retirement, effective Dec. 1, of Jack Coffman, Senior Vice President of Power Supply for OG&E Electric Services.

Coffman joined OG&E in 1970 as a Mechanical Engineer and held a variety of positions before being named Vice President in 1994 and Senior Vice President in 1999.

"We congratulate Jack for his distinguished 35-year career of outstanding leadership," said Steven E. Moore, OGE Energy Chairman, President and CEO. "We thank him for his dedication and commitment to excellence and wish him all the best."

OGE Energy is the parent company of OG&E, a regulated electric utility with about 740,000 customers in a service area spanning 30,000 square miles in Oklahoma and western Arkansas, and of Enogex Inc., a natural gas pipeline business with principal operations in Oklahoma and Arkansas.