Terry Bassham joined Great Plains Energy as its new Executive Vice President of Finance and Strategic Development and CFO on March 28, 2005.

Mr. Bassham previously was Executive Vice President, CFO and Chief Administrative Officer for El Paso Electric Company (EPE) in El Paso, Texas. In those roles, he oversaw EPE financial, treasury, regulatory and administrative functions. Mr. Bassham joined EPE in 1996 as General Counsel and increasingly assumed responsibility for legislative affairs, regulatory filings and corporate governance.

His career began in 1985 when he joined El Paso’s Kemp, Smith, Duncan & Hammond as an Associate Attorney. Mr. Bassham worked on EPE’s first Texas rate case involving the addition of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, and represented EPE in each of its subsequent related rate cases in Texas and New Mexico.

In 1992, Mr. Bassham left Kemp, Smith to join Moreno, Fry & Bassham, practicing commercial litigation and labor law. In 1993, he joined Clark, Thomas & Winters and represented EPE in its proposed merger with Central & South West Corporation.

Mr. Bassham holds a BBA - Accounting degree from the University of Texas-Arlington, and a Juris Doctorate degree from St. Mary’s University Law School, San Antonio, Texas.