E. Richards
Description John W. Gibson is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of ONEOK Partners GP, our general partner. He became President of ONEOK Partners GP, on January 1, 2010. He has also served as Chief Executive Officer of ONEOK Partners GP since 2007 and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of ONEOK Partners GP, since October 2007. Mr. Gibson also serves on the Board of Directors and as President and Chief Executive Officer of ONEOK. From 2005 until May 2006, he was President of ONEOK Energy Companies, which included our gathering and processing, natural gas liquids, pipelines and storage, and ONEOK?s energy services business segments, some of which were acquired by us in April 2006. Prior to that, he was President, Energy, from May 2000 to 2005 for ONEOK. Mr. Gibson joined ONEOK in May 2000 from Koch Energy, Inc., a subsidiary of Koch Industries, where he was an Executive Vice President. His career in the energy industry began in 1974 as a refinery engineer with Exxon USA. He spent 18 years with Phillips Petroleum Company in a variety of domestic and international positions in its natural gas, natural gas liquids and exploration and production businesses, including Vice President of Marketing of its natural gas subsidiary GPM Gas Corp. He holds an engineering degree from Missouri University of Science and Technology, formerly known as University of Missouri at Rolla. Mr. Gibson also serves on the Board of Directors of BOK Financial Corporation. In addition to being our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Gibson is also President and Chief Executive Officer of ONEOK. Mr. Gibson has served in a variety of roles of continually increasing responsibility at ONEOK since 2000, at the Partnership since 2004 and prior to 2000 at Koch Energy, Inc., Exxon USA and Phillips Petroleum Company. In these roles, Mr. Gibson has gained extensive management and operational experience and has demonstrated a strong track record of achievement in a variety of sectors in the oil and gas industry. In light of the foregoing, ONEOK has concluded that Mr. Gibson should continue to serve on our Board of Directors. To view the detailed information, you need to SUBSCRIBE with us. |
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