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Executive Management |
James
R. Moffett
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Mr. Moffett serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of
McMoRan Exploration Co. and
Chairman of
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
Inc. (FCX).
From
1964 to 1969, Mr. Moffett was a consulting geologist. In 1969, he and two associates founded McMoRan Oil & Gas
Co., which developed into one of America’s leading independent
oil and gas companies. In
1981, Mr. Moffett put together the merger of McMoRan Oil & Gas
Co. and Freeport Minerals Company.
The merger resulted in the establishment of a new company,
Freeport-McMoRan Inc., which became one of the world’s leading
natural resource companies of which he served as Chairman and CEO
from 1984 - 1997.
Mr. Moffett
serves on numerous boards and has received many awards, including
the 1990 Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans
Award. In May 2000,
he received that Association’s 2000 Norman Vincent Peale Award
for his exceptional humanitarian contributions to society.
He is also a member of the American Mining Hall of Fame,
Mining Foundation of the Southwest. Mr. Moffett received a Bachelor of Science degree with
special honors in Geology from the University of Texas at Austin
while on a full football scholarship and a Master of Science
degree in Geology from Tulane University.
He has also received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree
from Louisiana State University and a Doctor of Financial
Economics, Honoris Causa, degree from the University of New Orleans.
He has served on the board since 1994.
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Richard
C. Adkerson
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Richard C. Adkerson serves as Co-Chairman of the
Board of McMoRan Exploration Co. He is also President and Chief
Executive Officer and a director of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
Inc.
He graduated from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Accounting with highest honors and an MBA
degree. He later completed the Advanced Management Program of the
Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Freeport-McMoRan in
1989, he was a Partner and Managing Director of Arthur Andersen &
Co. where he headed the firm’s Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry
Practice. From 1976 to 1978, he was a Professional Accounting
Fellow with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington,
D.C. and a Presidential Exchange Executive.
Mr. Adkerson currently serves as Chairman of the International
Council on Mining and Metals and on the Executive Board of the
International Copper Association. He is President of the
Mississippi State University Foundation Board of Directors,
chaired its “State of the Future” capital campaign, serves on the
University’s Advisory Board for the College of Business and serves
on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association and the
Bulldog Club. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater
Phoenix Leadership and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, and
is a member of the Business Council of New Orleans and the River
Region. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Kissinger
Institute on China and the United States, the Dean’s Council of
100 for the Arizona State University W. P. Carey School of
Business, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center Board of Visitors, the Development Board of the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes of New Orleans, the Louisiana
State University Ourso College of Business Executive Board of
Advisors, the Xavier University President’s Council and the New
Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Foundation Board. He was
named the Outstanding Accounting Alumnus of Mississippi State
University in 1989 and the Outstanding Alumnus of Mississippi
State University’s College of Business and Industry in 1991. In
2009, for the second straight year, Institutional Investor
magazine ranked Mr. Adkerson first in their annual ranking of
“America's Best CEOs” in the Basic Materials - Metals & Mining
category.
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Glenn A. Kleinert
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Mr. Kleinert is the President and
Chief Executive Officer of McMoRan Exploration Co. He served as Executive Vice President of
McMoRan Exploration Co. from May 2001 until February 2004. He has
served as President and Chief Operating Officer of
McMoRan Oil & Gas since May 2001, Senior Vice President of
McMoRan Oil & Gas from 1994 until May 2001, and Vice President of
Freeport-McMoRan Energy, LLC since February 2001. |
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Board of Directors
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Richard C. Adkerson |
See Executive Management above.
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Robert A.
Day |
Mr.
Day is founder, Chairman
of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Trust Company of the
West, an investment
management company. He is
also the Chairman,
President and Chief Executive Officer of W. M. Keck
Foundation, a national philanthropic organization. Mr. Day also
serves as a director of
Société Générale
and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Mr. Day received his Bachelor of Science degree from Claremont McKenna College. He has served on the board since 1994. |
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Gerald J.
Ford
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Mr. Ford is the Chairman of the Board of Diamond-A Ford Corp. Mr. Ford is the former Chairman of the Board,
Chief Executive Officer and a principal shareholder of Golden
State Bancorp, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, California
Federal Bank, a Federal Savings Bank, that merged with Citigroup
Inc. in 2002. Mr. Ford also serves as a director of
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. and Scientific Games Corp. (SGMS)
and Chairman of the Board of First Acceptance Corporation and
Hilltop Holdings, Inc. He served as Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 2002 to 2006
and currently serves as a Trustee and on the Trusteeship Committee
of the University. He is on the Executive Board of SMU School of
Law, is a Trustee of Southwestern Medical Foundation and
Children’s Medical Foundation, is a member of the Board of
Overseers of Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical
Sciences of Cornell University. Mr. Ford received his bachelor’s
degree in economics from SMU in 1966 and his Juris Doctor degree
from SMU’s School of Law in 1969. Mr. Ford has been an MMR Board
member since 1998.
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H. Devon
Graham Jr.
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Mr.
Graham is President
of R.E. Smith Interests, an asset management company. He was the United States Regional Managing Partner
– Southwest of Arthur Andersen LLP from 1985 until 1997. Mr. Graham is a member of the Senior Executive Advisory Board of
the College of Business and Industry at Mississippi State
University. He also serves on the board of Freeport-McMoRan Copper
& Gold Inc. Mr.
Graham graduated from Mississippi State University with a degree in
Accounting. He has
served on the board since 1999. |
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Suzanne T. Mestayer |
Ms. Mestayer is the managing member of Advisean
Partners, L.L.C. She is the former President of the New Orleans
market of Regions Bank, part of Regions Financial
Corporation, one of the largest full-service providers of
consumer and commercial banking, trust, securities brokerage,
mortgage, and insurance products and services.
Ms. Mestayer was a
partner in Arthur Andersen where she practiced
as a CPA from 1973 to 1991. She practiced with
PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1991 to 1993. She began working in
the banking industry in 1993. Ms. Mestayer received her
Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Louisiana State
University in 1973. She has served on the board since 2007. |
James R. Moffett
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See Executive Management above. |
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B.M.
Rankin Jr.
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Mr.
Rankin has served as Vice
Chairman of the Board of McMoRan Exploration Co.
and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
since January 2001. Presently, Mr. Rankin is a private investor
and provides consulting services to both companies through FM
Services Company. He was a co-founder of McMoRan Oil & Gas Co. in 1969 with J.R.
Moffett and W.K. McWilliams. He has
served on the board since
1994. |
ADVISORY DIRECTOR
Morrison C.
Bethea
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Dr.
Bethea is currently a Staff Physician at Ochsner Foundation
Hospital and Clinic and also a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Tulane University Medical Center. He
is a Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgeon and served as Chief
of Thoracic Surgery at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans
from 1997 to 2005. He earned his medical degree from Tulane University School
of Medicine, completed his residency at Charity Hospital in New
Orleans and postgraduate
training
in thoracic and cardiac surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center in New York. Dr.
Bethea is the co-author of The New York Times best selling
book SUGAR BUSTERS! and the author of many publications in the
field of cardiovascular disease. |
ADVISORY DIRECTOR
Gabrielle K.
McDonald
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A
former U.S. District Judge, noted civil rights attorney and
professor of jurisprudence, Judge McDonald served for six years as
a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia in The Hague, The Netherlands and was President of the
Tribunal from 1997 until 1999.
Judge McDonald received her law degree from Howard
University School of Law, completing the program as the top
student in her class. She
is presently a judge in the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal,
The Hague, The Netherlands and Special Counsel on Human Rights to
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., along
with serving as a Director of Freeport-McMoRan Copper
& Gold Inc. |
ADVISORY DIRECTOR
J. Taylor
Wharton
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Dr. Wharton was Special Assistant to the President
for Patient Affairs and Professor, Gynecologic Oncology, at The
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center until August 31,
2007. He received his medical degree from the University of
Texas, Galveston. He is also a director of Freeport-McMoRan
Copper & Gold Inc. |
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The year in the board of directors'
tenure includes the period that the person served as a director of
either McMoRan Oil & Gas or Freeport-McMoRan Sulphur.
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