Stories tagged with Chesapeake Energy
Lessons from Bob Simpson’s $100 million cashout at XTO
By Gary Jacobson | October 12, 2008 at 8:14am | 0
CEO Bob Simpson earned about $100 million from the sale of nearly 2.8 million shares of XTO early last week, as he raced to beat the meltdown of the market and his stock.
Shades of 1929 for Chesapeake’s Aubrey McClendon
By Gary Jacobson | October 11, 2008 at 12:24pm | 3
Risk-taking caught up to Aubrey McClendon, the outspoken energy company CEO who helped fund the Swift Boat attacks against John Kerry four years ago and has been busy touting the benefits of compressed natural gas in TV ads this election cycle.
Chesapeake Energy and Aubrey McClendon, masters of the power play
By Gary Jacobson | July 9, 2008 at 8:42am | 2
Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon has a former Oklahoma governor (Frank Keating) and U.S. Senator (Don Nickles) on his Oklahoma City-based company’s board of directors. That seems only fitting. McClendon’s great uncle, Robert S. Kerr, co-founded Kerr-McGee and served as Oklahoma governor and senator.
