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Aubrey K. McClendon
Chairman of the Board, Chief
Executive Officer and Director
Aubrey K. McClendon has served
as Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer and has been a di-
rector of the company since its in-
ception. From 1982 to 1989, Mr.
McClendon was an independent
producer of oil and gas in affiliation
with Mr. Tom L. Ward. Mr.
McClendon is a member of the
Board of Visitors of the Fuqua
School of Business at Duke Uni-
versity, an Executive Committee
member of the Texas Independent
Producers and Royalty Owners
Association, a Director of the
Oklahoma Independent Petroleum
Association, and a Director of the
Louisiana Independent Oil and
Gas Association. Mr. McClendon
graduated from Duke University
in 1981.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Tom L.Ward
President, Chief Operating
Officer and Director
Tom L. Ward has served as President
and Chief Operating Officer and has
been a director of the company since
its inception. From 1982 to 1989,
Mr. Ward was an independent pro-
ducer of oil and gas in affiliation with
Mr. Aubrey K. McClendon. Mr. Ward
is a member of the Board of
Trustees of Anderson University in
Anderson, Indiana. Mr. Ward
graduated from the University of
Oklahoma in 1981.
E. F. Heizer,Jr.
Director
E. F. Heizer, Jr. has served as a direc-
tor of the company since February
1993. He founded Heizer Corp. in
1969 and served as Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer until 1986,
when Heizer Corp. was reorganized
into a number of public and private
companies. Mr. Heizer was assistant
treasurer of the Allstate Insurance
Company from 1962 to 1969. He
CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORPORATION
was employed by Booz, Allen and
Hamilton from 1958 to 1962, Kidder,
Peabody & Co. from 1956 to 1958
and Arthur Anderson & Co. from
1954 to 1956. He is chairman of the
Heizer Center for Entrepreneurship
at the Kellogg School of Management
at Northwestern University and the
Executive Committee of Yale Law
School. Mr. Heizer graduated from
Northwestern University in 1951 and
received a Juris Doctorate from Yale
in 1954.
Breene M. Kerr
Director
Breene M. Kerr has served as a direc-
tor of the company since February
1993. In 1969, Mr. Kerr founded
Kerr Consolidated, Inc., of which he
is currently Chairman and President,
and co-founded the Resource Analysis
and Management Group. From 1967
to 1969, he was Vice President of
Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation
and served as a director of Kerr-
McGee Corporation from 1957 to
1981. Mr. Kerr has served as a chairman
of the Investment Committee for the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology