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Board of Directors
Aubrey K. McClendon
Chairman of the Board,
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Aubrey K. McClendon, age 40, has served
as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive
Officer and a director since co-founding
the company in 1989. From 1982 to 1989,
Mr. McClendon was an independent pro-
ducer 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.
Mr. McClendon is a 1981 graduate of Duke University.
Tom L. Ward
President.
Chief Operating Officer and Director
Tom L. Ward, age 40, has served as
President, Chief Operating Officer and a
director of the company since co-founding
the company 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
graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1981.
EF. Heizer, Jr.
Director
Edgar F. Heizer, Jr., age 70, 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 oper-
ations. 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. Heizer is a director of Material
Science Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange listed
company 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, age 71, has been a director
of the company since 1993. He is President
of Brookside Company, Easton, Maryland.
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 and remained its
senior partner until 1982. From 1967 to 1969, he was Vice
President of Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation. From 1951
through 1967, Mr. Kerr worked for Kerr-McGee Corporation
as a geologist and land manager. Mr. Kerr has served as
chairman of the Investment Committee for the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and is a life member of the Corporation
(Board of Trustees) of that university. He served as a director
of Kerr-McGee Corporation from 1957 to 1981. Mr. Kerr
currently is a trustee of the Brookings Institution in
Washington, D.C., and has been an associate director since
1987 of Aven Gas & Oil, Inc., an oil and gas property man-
agement company located in Oklahoma City. Mr. Kerr gradu-
ated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951.
Shannon 1. Self
Director
Shannon T. Self, age 43, has been a director
of the company since 1993. He is a share-
holder in the law firm of Self, Giddens &
Lees, Inc., a professional corporation, in
Oklahoma City, which he co-founded in
1991. Mr. Self was an associate and share-
holder in the law firm of Hastie and
Kirschner, Oklahoma City, from 1984 to 1991 and was
employed by Arthur Young & Co. from 1979 to 1980. Mr. Self
is a member of the Visiting Committee of Northwestern
University School of Law and in 1999 was a director of
The Rock Island Group, a private computer firm in Oklahoma
City. Mr. Self is also a Certified Public Accountant. He gradu-
ated from the University of Oklahoma in 1979 and from
Northwestern University Law School in 1984.
Frederick B. Whittemore
Director
Frederick B. Whittemore, age 69, has been
a director of the company since 1993. Mr.
Whittemore has been an advisory director
of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. since
1989 and was a managing director or part-
ner of the predecessor firms of Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter & Co. from 1967
to 1989. He was Vice-Chairman of the American Stock
Exchange from 1982 to 1984. Mr. Whittemore is a director of
Partner Reinsurance Company, Bermuda; Maxcor Financial
Group Inc., New York, New York; SunLife of New York,
New York; KOS Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Miami, Florida; and
Southern Pacific Petroleum, Australia, NL. Mr. Whittemore
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1953 and from the
Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1954.
Walter C. Wilson
Director
Walter C. Wilson, age 64, has been a director
of the company since 1993. From 1963 to
1974 and from 1978 to 1997, Mr. Wilson
was a general agent with Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Company. From
1974 to 1978, he was Senior Vice President
of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company, and from 1958 to 1963 he was an agent with
that company. Mr. Wilson is a member of the Board of
Trustees of Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts,
and is a director of Earth Satellite Corporation of Rockville,
Maryland, and "Q" Companies, Inc. of Houston, Texas.
Mr. Wilson graduated in 1958 from Dartmouth College.
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