Elizabeth F. Williamson (age 53), Vice President, Business Development, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
Ms. Williamson joined the Company in July 2006 with over 25 years of experience in the energy business. She began her career as a landman in 1980 with Conoco Inc. and until 2004 she held numerous positions in diverse aspects of the domestic and international land and acquisitions discipline with Conoco Inc. and, later, ConocoPhillips. Ms. Williamson served as the Director of Acquisitions and Government Affairs for Upstream Europe/Russia from 1990 to 1995. She was named Executive Assistant to the President and CEO (and, later, Chairman) in 1995 where she managed various aspects of the split off from Dupont and the initial public offering of Conoco Inc., including the formation of a new Board of Directors and the development of corporate governance and other policy procedures. In this role, she was also active in participating in the evaluation of mergers and acquisitions and other growth opportunities and led various business development and lobbying activities around the globe, with particular emphasis in Africa and the Middle East. In 2002, she became Vice President, International Government Affairs and later managed Stakeholder Engagement for ConocoPhillips’ Liquefied Natural Gas efforts which concentrated on the permitting and community/government acceptance of various re-gas terminals, both domestically and internationally. After leaving ConocoPhillips in 2004, Ms. Williamson consulted for various oil and gas interests as well as Airbus, North America. Ms. Williamson received a BA in Business Education from the University of Oklahoma and graduated from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration’s Young Managers’ Program.