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Key People
1985: Kenneth Lay formed Enron was formed after merging Houston
Natural Gas and InterNorth.
setup a gas bank through which buyers and sellers of natural gas could
transact with each other.
Recruits Jeff Skilling, a McKinsey consultant.
1990s: major gas trading operations were established.
Extended business to power supply business in a global scale.
Expanded power supply business world wide.
Skillings vision was to transform Enron into a giant, asset-light
operation, trading power generally and his next target was trading
electricity.
Lay was lobbying Washington hard to deregulate electricity and Skilling
took Enron into California, buying a power plant on the west coast.
Timeline