Jon Barfield - CMS Energy Independent Director

Mr. Jon E. Barfield is Independent Director of the Company. He is is president and chief executive officer of LJ Holdings Investment Company LLC, a private investment company. In March 2012, he retired from Bartech Group, Inc. where he served since 1981 as president and from 1995 to March 2012 as chairman and president of this industryleading professional services firm, with headquarters in Southfield, Michigan, delivering talent management, business process outsourcing and managed services provider solutions to Global 1, 000 firms. Bartech manages the daily work assignments for more than 120, 000 associates and more than 4.7 billion in annual procurement for major employers around the world, making Bartech one of the largest talent acquisition and managed service provider firms in the United States. During the past five years, Barfield previously served as a director of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Good Technology Corporationrationration. He was a director of CMS and Consumers since August 2005. Barfield brings to the Board legal knowledge and experience, having practiced corporate and securities law at Sidley Austin LLP. His qualifications to serve as a director stem primarily from his experiences as a senior leader, and his varied service as a director with considerable experience regarding legal risk oversight and risk management, financial reporting, attracting and retaining key talent and related human resources experience, corporate governance, customer service and marketing, and mergers and acquisitions. He served for many years as chairman of the audit committee of the Princeton University Board of Trustees. since 2005.