Contacts:

Ty Stark
Assistant
Marketing & Communications
800-616-8326
ty@nef1.org

Dari Scott
Vice President
Marketing & Communications
801-908-5800
dari@nef1.org

National Energy Foundation is pleased to announce Donald F. Santa, Jr. as the new chairman of the board. Mr. Santa is the President of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA), the North American association representing the interstate and interprovincial natural gas pipeline industry. NEF would also like to thank Mr. Santa for his service as a board member since 2005 and looks forward his leadership as chairman.

Mr. Santa brings an extensive background in government and in the energy industry to the NEF board. He has served as majority counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1989-1993. He was nominated in 1993 to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he served until 1997. Mr. Santa joined LG&E Energy Corp in Louisville, KY, where he served as Deputy General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning from 1997-2001. Most recently before joining INGAA, he was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Troutman Sanders LLP where he was a member of the law firm's federal regulatory practice group. Prior to assuming his current role at INGAA in August 2003, Mr. Santa had been the association’s Executive Vice President since January 2003.

Mr. Santa is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law and the Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. He resides with his wife and two children in Edgewater, MD.