John Hess vs Javan Ottoson

John Hess

CEO of Hess Corporation

BIO: Mr. John B. Hess has been the Chief Executive Officer at Hess Corporation since May 3, 1995. Mr. Hess has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Hess Midstream Partners GP LLC, a general partners of Hess Midstream Partners LP since September 2014 and July 2014 respectively. Mr. Hess serves on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Quadrennial Review Task Force. Mr. Hess has been with Hess Corporation for 28 years and has strong background in the global oil and gas industry. He provides significant value to the oversight and development of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts business and served leadership roles at a global energy business. Mr. Hess led the Fortune 100 Company through a strategic transformation from integrated oil company to pure play exploration and production company. Mr. Hess served as the Chairman of Hess Corporation from May 3, 1995 to May 16, 2013. Mr. Hess serves as Vice Chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. and has been its Director since 2007. He serves as a Trustee of Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc. Mr. Hess has been a Director of Hess Corporation since 1978. He has been a Director of the Trilateral Commission since 2009. Mr. Hess has been a Director and Member of Board of Trustees at Deerfield Academy since 2004. He has been a Director of KKR Management LLC since July 28, 2011 and a Director of Kkr Management Llc at KKR & Co. L.P. He has been a Director of National Advisory Board of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. since 1991. Mr. Hess has been a Member of Board of Trustees at Wildlife Conservation Society/NY Zoo since 1991, United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational Foundation. Mr. Hess has been a Trustee of The Mount Sinai Hospital since 1988 and New York Public Library since 2008. He is a member of the Business Council, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations and he serves on the Executive Committee of the American Petroleum Institute. He is a member of Dean's Advisors of Harvard Business School since 2001. He is also Chair of the Harvard Business School Campaign. He served as a Director of NYC2012, Inc. He served as a Director of The Dow Chemical Company since October 12, 2006 until May 9, 2013. Mr. Hess served as a Member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board from 1999 to 2002. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1977 and a B.A. from Harvard College in 1975.

Javan Ottoson

CEO of SM Energy Company

BIO: Mr. Javan D. Ottoson, also known as Jay, has been the Chief Executive Officer of SM Energy Company since February 01, 2015 and has been its President since October 2012. Mr. Ottoson served as the Chief Operating Officer of SM Energy Company from December 18, 2006 to February 1, 2015. He served as an Executive Vice President of SM Energy Company from December 18, 2006 to October 2012. He has been in the oil and gas industry for 22 years. He joined SM Energy Company in December 2006. He served as Senior Vice President of Drilling and Engineering of EPL Oil & Gas, Inc. (formerly Energy Partners, Ltd.) from April 17, 2006 to July 9, 2007. Mr. Ottoson worked at Chevron and served as Permian Asset Development Manager, a position he has held since Chevron's acquisition of Unocal in 2005. He managed the Permian Basinassets for Pure Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of Unocal Corporation and its successor owner, Chevron, from July 2003 to April 2006. Prior to acquisition, he served as West Area Asset Manager of Pure Resources, Inc., a division of Unocal since 2003. From April 2000 to July 2003, Mr. Ottoson owned and operated a homebuilding company inColorado and ran his family farm. He also spent 20 years with ARCO and served in a variety of operational and financial roles, both domestically and abroad which includes President of ARCO China, Commercial Director of ARCO British and Vice President of Operations and Development, ARCO Permian. He has been a Director of SM Energy Company since September 26, 2014. He holds a B.S. in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.