Thaddeus Herrick — Head of Executive Communications at Phillips66

Mr. Thaddeus Herrick has been Head of Executive Communications at Phillips 66 since September 2017. Mr. Herrick served as Director of Communications at Compass Bank. Mr. Herrick has been General Manager of Houston office and Director, Public Affairs Practice of Burson-Marsteller, Inc., since October 2007. Mr. Herrick has nearly 25 years of prize-winning newspaper work, recently with the Wall Street Journal. In his seven years as a Reporter in the Journal's Houston bureau, he covered the real estate, chemical and oil industries, including companies such as Exxon Mobil and Dow Chemical. His beat also included the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and coverage of OPEC's meetings in Vienna. In addition to writing regional stories for page one, Mr. Herrick shared in the newspaper's 2002 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the September 11 attacks and was a frequent guest on CNBC and Wall Street Journal Radio. Prior to joining the Journal, he was San Antonio bureau chief for the Houston Chronicle, where he won state and local honors for his coverage of Texas. While at the Chronicle, Mr. Herrick reported on national and international affairs, covering the Oklahoma City bombing, the 1996 presidential race and Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba. He was also political writer for the Rocky Mountain News and Mexico City bureau chief for Scripps Howard Newspapers, reporting on stories throughout Latin America, including the 1990 electoral defeat of Nicaragua's Sandinista party and the drug wars in Colombia and Peru. As a reporter at the El Paso Herald-Post, he won top honors from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists for his coverage of living conditions in rural El Paso. He began his career as a Reporter and Editor at the Daily Journal, an English-language newspaper in Caracas, Venezuela. Mr. Herrick was named a Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 1999. He was also awarded a Luce Scholarship in 1988 from the Henry Luce Foundation, spending a year in Indonesia at the Jakarta Post and reporting from Java, Borneo and East Timor as well as the Philippines. Mr. Herrick is a graduate of Duke University and lives in Houston with his wife Linda and his children, Casey and Isabel.