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12
Board of Directors
Aubrey K. McClendon
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive
Officer and Director
Aubrey K. McClendon has served
as Chairman of the Board, Chief
Executive Officer and a director
of the company since its inception
in 1989. From 1982 to 1989,
Mr. McClendon was an independent producer of
oil and gas in affiliation with Tom L. Ward, the
company's President and Chief Operating Officer.
Mr. McClendon is a member of the Board of
Visitors of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke
University, 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 is a 1981
graduate of Duke University.
Tom L. Ward
President, Chief Operating Officer
and Director
Tom L. Ward has served as
President, Chief Operating Officer
and a director of the company
since its inception in 1989.
From 1982 to 1989, Mr. Ward
was an independent producer of oil and gas in
affiliation with Aubrey K. McClendon, the company's
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ward is
a member of the Board of Trustees of Anderson
University in Anderson, Indiana. Mr. Ward gradu-
ated from the University of Oklahoma in 1981.
E.F. Heizer, Jr.
Director
E. F. Heizer, Jr. has been a direc-
tor of the company since 1993.
From 1985 to the present,
Mr. Heizer has been a private
venture capitalist. He founded
Heizer Corporation, a publicly
traded business development company, in 1969
and served as Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer from 1969 until 1986, when Heizer
Corporation was reorganized into a number of
public and private companies. Mr. Heizer was
Assistant Treasurer of the Allstate Insurance
Company from 1962 to 1969 in charge of Allstate's
venture capital operations. He was employed by
Booz, Allen and hamilton from 1958 to 1962,
Kidder, Peabody & Co. from 1956 to 1958 and
Arthur Andersen & Co. from 1954 to 1956.
He serves on the advisory board of the Kellogg
School of Management at Northwestern University.
Mr. Ileizer is a director of Material Science
Corporation in Elk Grove, Illinois, and several
private companies. Mr. Heizer graduated from
Northwestern University in 1951 and from
Yale University Law School in 1954.
Breene M. Kerr
Director
Breene M. Kerr has been a
director of the company since
1993. He is Vice Chairman of
Seven Seas Petroleum Corporation,
Flouston, Texas, an exploration
and production company with
operations in Colombia, South America. In 1969,
Mr. Kerr founded Kerr Consolidated, Inc., which
was sold in 1996. In 1969, Mr. Kerr co-founded
the Resource Analysis and Management Group