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 Board of Directors 


James T. Hackett
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Hackett was named Chief Executive Officer of the company in December 2003, and Chairman of the Board in January 2006. He also served as Anadarko President from December 2003 to February 2010.
Prior to joining Anadarko, Mr. Hackett was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Devon Energy Corporation from April 2003 until December 2003 following Devon's merger with Ocean Energy, Inc., where he was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from March 1999 to April 2003 and was Ocean Energy's Chairman of the Board from January 2000 to April 2003. Prior to that Mr. Hackett served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Seagull Energy until it merged with Ocean Energy, Inc., in March 1999.
Mr. Hackett is former Chairman of America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) and former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He is on the Board of the American Petroleum Institute and the National Petroleum Council and is a Director of Bunge, Ltd. and Fluor Corporation. He is also a former Chairman and now Board member of the Houston Grand Opera, the Welch Foundation for Chemistry, the Business Roundtable and the Trilateral Commission. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Baylor College of Medicine and is a Board member and adjunct professor at Rice University.


Kevin P. Chilton


General Chilton retired as Commander of the United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska in February 2011, where he was responsible for the plans and operations for all U.S. forces conducting strategic deterrence and Department of Defense space and cyberspace operations. General Chilton served in the United States Air Force (USAF) for more than 34 years in a wide variety of assignments including pilot, test pilot, instructor and astronaut, while earning numerous major awards and decorations. General Chilton has been a director of Anadarko since May 2011.


Luke R. Corbett


Mr. Corbett joined Anadarko's board in August 2006 following Anadarko's acquisition of Kerr-McGee Corporation (Kerr-McGee), where he had served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 1999. Mr. Corbett had been with Kerr-McGee since 1985 when he joined the company's Exploration and Production Division as vice president of geophysics. In subsequent years, he held a number of senior executive positions with Kerr-McGee. Mr. Corbett also serves on the board of OGE Energy Corp.


H. Paulett Eberhart


Ms. Eberhart is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CDI Corp., a corporation which provides engineering and information technology/outsourcing and professional staffing services to its customers. From 2009 until January 2011, Ms. Eberhart was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HMS Ventures, a privately held business involved with technology services the acquisition and management of real estate. She served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Invensys Process Systems, Inc., a process automation company from January 2007 to January 2009. From 2003 until March 2004, Ms. Eberhart was President, Americas of Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS), an information technology and business process outsourcing company. From 2002 to 2003, she was Senior Vice President of EDS and President of Solutions Consulting. She was also a member of the Executive Operations Team and Investment Committee of EDS. Ms. Eberhart was an employee of EDS from 1978 to 2004. She is a Certified Public Accountant and also serves as a Director of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., and CDI Corp. Ms. Eberhart has been a director of Anadarko since August 2004.


Peter J. Fluor


Mr. Fluor is Chairman and CEO of Texas Crude Energy, Inc., a private, independent oil and gas exploration company. Mr. Fluor also serves as lead director of Fluor Corporation and as director of Cameron International Corporation. He is a member of the All American Wildcatters Association and the Council of Overseers of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. Mr. Fluor has been a director of Anadarko since August 2007.


Preston M . "Pete" Geren III


Mr. Geren was elected to serve as an independent director of Anadarko in October 2009. Mr. Geren has served as Senior Advisor and President-Elect of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation since April 2010. Prior to joining Anadarko's Board, Mr. Geren served as Secretary of the U.S. Army from July 2007 until September 2009. He has also served as Under Secretary of the U.S. Army, Acting Secretary of the U.S. Army and Acting Secretary of the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Geren joined the Department of Defense in September of 2001 to serve as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense with responsibilities in the areas of inter-agency initiatives, legislative affairs and special projects. Prior to joining the Department of Defense, he was an attorney and businessman in Ft. Worth, Texas. From 1989 until his retirement in 1997, Mr. Geren served four terms as a member of the U.S. Congress, representing the 12th Congressional District of Texas. In 1997, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Union Pacific Resources Group, Inc. (UPR), where he served until UPR was acquired by Anadarko in 2000. Mr. Geren then served as a director of Anadarko from July 2000 until his resignation in July 2005 to accept an appointment as Acting Secretary of the U.S. Air Force.


John R. Gordon


Mr. Gordon is Senior Managing Director of Deltec Asset Management LLC, an investment firm located in New York, New York. He was President of Deltec Securities Corporation from 1988 until it was converted into Deltec Asset Management LLC. Mr. Gordon has been a director of Anadarko since April 1988.


Paula Rosput Reynolds


Ms. Reynolds has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of PreferWest, LLC, a business advisory group since October 2009. She served as Vice Chairman and Chief Restructuring Officer of American International Group Inc., an insurance and financial services company from October 2007 to September 2009. Prior to her appointment to that position in October 2008, she served as President and CEO of Safeco Corporation, a property and casualty insurance company located in Seattle, Washington, from January 2006 until its acquisition by Liberty Mutual Group in September 2008. Prior to joining Safeco, she served as Chairman, President and CEO of AGL Resources Inc., a regional energy services holding company. Ms. Reynolds also previously served as President and CEO of Houston-based Duke Energy North America, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, which operated power-generating facilities across the United States, and as Senior Vice President of Pacific Gas Transmission Company, which owned and operated a major natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest. She is also a director of Delta Air Lines, Inc and BAE Systems plc. Ms. Reynolds has been a director of Anadarko since August 2007.




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