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From:steven.kean@enron.com
To:john.sherriff@enron.com
Subject:Re: Draft Organizational Announcement about Japan
Cc:jackie.gentle@enron.com, richard.shapiro@enron.com, mark.palmer@enron.com
Bcc:jackie.gentle@enron.com, richard.shapiro@enron.com, mark.palmer@enron.com
Date:Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:34:00 -0700 (PDT)

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John Sherriff@ECT
04/24/2001 12:55 AM
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Subject: Draft Organizational Announcement about Japan


May I please have your comments if any on this draft by close of business
Wednesday. We hope to have agreed on the Q&A's by then and to send it out
the announcement on Thursday.

John

To be sent to: All Enron Europe, all employees in Japan, all Global Markets
and all VPs and up around the company

Enron has established several wholesale businesses in Japan in the last year
including Metals, Power Plant Development (via our investment in EnCom),
Coal, LNG & Weather. We see significant opportunities in each of these
businesses and we will continue to expand our presence in Japan in order to
capture these opportunities. However, while Japan continues to make progress
towards a liberalized electricity market, significant barriers to power
trading remain under the current interim market structure. Until further
tangible steps are taken to improve third party access for electricity in
Japan, we will suspend our power marketing efforts and focus on the
significant opportunities that currently exist in our other wholesale
businesses. [Any statement regarding our existing power sales commitment?]
Once the necessary regulatory changes have been completed we expect to
aggressively pursue Enron's traditional position as the leading buyer and
seller of electricity in every deregulated market.

We are making a number of organization changes in order to better align our
resources with the opportunities in the Japanese market. [deleted text] Joe
Hirl our President of Enron Japan will move to the Global Markets group and
lead a team that will focus on developing all our Global Markets
opportunities in Japan especially Weather, Oil, LNG, Coal, and
Shipping. We expect to continue our general recruiting of Japanese
nationals and as President of Enron Japan, Joe will continue to provide the
overall business leadership to both recruiting and the Analyst and Associate
program in Japan. The Finance origination team headed by Jeremy Thirsk will
continue to report to Joe and also move to Global Markets. Our power trading
group led by Morton Erik Pettersen will transition into other roles around
Enron. The Equity/FX/Interest rate team which is a part of Global Markets
has two employees in the Tokyo office today and they expect to expand their
efforts throughout the year.

The EnCom group, which is our power plant development business (with minority
partners) and headed by Carey Sloan will continue its efforts in developing
power plants in Japan. We are pleased with the progress we are making on a
number of sites and EnCom will continue to report to the Enron Europe Office
of the Chairman.

Our Metals team headed by Kazunari Sugimoto will continue to report through
Enron Metals in London.

By May we expect Enron Credit to have two to three employees in Tokyo pursing
the Credit Derivative business. These employees remain in Enron Credit , a
part of Enron Europe.

EBS has two employees headed by Jim Weisser and this team expects to expand
by year end.

The Industrial Markets team also expects to have two employees in the Tokyo
office in the next couple of months.

In the last seven months the commercial support services for Japan have been
transitioned to London for support and this is not changing. Jane McBride
heads the legal team and will continue to functionally report to Mark Evans,
General Counsel in London. The RAC function will continue to report to Ted
Murphy, head of RAC for Enron Europe. The Risk Management and Accounting
team is headed by Jan-Erland Bekeng will continue to functionally report to
Fernley Dyson in London. The IT, HR, Tax and real estate teams will also
continue to functionally report to London.

Nick O'Day who heads the Public Affairs group (Government & Regulatory
Affairs and the Public Relations) in Japan will report to the Enron Europe
Office of the Chair with a Public Relations functional reporting to Jackie
Gentle in London and a Government Affairs functional reporting to Rick
Shapiro in Houston. We anticipate that his team's efforts will be primarily
directed to supporting the EnCom power plant development team but they will
also continue to provide support for Global Markets, EBS & Industrial Markets.

We have already made considerable progress in breaking into the Japanese
markets across a wide range of Enron businesses and we anticipate that this
will provide significant profit growth for years to come. Through these
current changes we can demonstrate our ability to be flexible and target our
resources where they will realise the most immediate value for the company.