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ABOUT BBG | Management and Directors

The success of every company depends on the people and at Bill Barrett Corporation our 260 employees are some of the best in the industry. Our 14 senior officers have an average of 26 years industry experience and most worked together as executives or advisors at Barrett Resources, a publicly—traded Rocky Mountain oil and gas company that was founded in 1980 and sold in 2001 in a transaction valued at approximately $2.8 billion.

Fredrick J. Barrett
Mr. Barrett has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since March 2006, as a director since its inception in 2002 and as President from January 2002 until July 2006. Mr. Barrett served as Chief Operating Officer from June 2005 through February 2006. Mr. Barrett served as senior geologist of Barrett Resources Corporation, a publicly traded exploration and production company ("Barrett Resources"), and its successor, The Williams Companies, in the Rocky Mountain Region from 1997 through 2001, and as geologist from 1989 to 1996. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Barrett was a partner in Terred Oil Company, a private oil and gas partnership providing geologic services for the Rocky Mountain Region. From 1983 to 1987, Mr. Barrett worked as a project and field geologist for Barrett Resources.
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Joseph N. Jaggers
Mr. Jaggers has served as Chief Operating Officer and President since July 2006 and as a director since December 2006. From April 2006 to June 2006, Mr. Jaggers served as Chief Operating Officer of Terralliance Technologies, Inc., a private oil and gas exploration and production company. He was Regional Vice President, Exploration and Production, for Williams Companies from August 2001 to April 2006. Previously, Mr. Jaggers served as Chief Operating Officer and President at Barrett Resources Corporation from 2000 until its sale to Williams in August 2001. From 1981 through 2000, Mr. Jaggers worked for Amoco and BP Plc in various domestic and international operational assignments. From 2006 through 2007, Mr. Jaggers served as a director of Milagro Exploration, a privately held oil and gas company, and Mr. Jaggers served as a director of Mission resources from November 2003 until Mission's sale in July 2005.
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Robert W. Howard
Mr. Howard has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since March 30, 2007. He served as Chief Financial Officer for Quantum Resources, a private oil and gas company headquartered in Denver, from May 2006 until March 2007. Previously, Mr. Howard served from January 2002 through May 2006 in various executive positions for us, including Executive Vice President — Finance and Investor Relations and Treasurer from February 2003 until May 2006 and as Chief Financial Officer from January 2002 until February 2003. From August 2001 until December 2001, Mr. Howard served as Vice President — Finance and Administration and a director of AEC Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Alberta Energy Company, Ltd., an oil and gas exploration and development company that subsequently was merged into PanCanadian Energy Corporation and then renamed EnCana Corporation. From 1984 through its sale in 2001, Mr. Howard served in various positions at Barrett Resources Corporation, including as Senior Vice President — Investor Relations and Corporate Development and Senior Vice President Accounting and Finance and Treasurer.

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Francis B. Barron
Mr. Barron has served as Executive Vice President — General Counsel and Secretary since February 2009 and as Secretary since March 2004. He served as our Senior Vice President — General Counsel from March 2004 until February 2009. He served as our Chief Financial Officer from November 2006 until March 30, 2007. Mr. Barron was a partner at the Denver, Colorado office of Patton Boggs LLP from February 1999 until February 2004, practicing corporate, securities and general business law. Prior to February 1999, Mr. Barron was a partner at Bearman Talesnick & Clowdus Professional Corporation, a Denver law firm. Mr. Barron’s clients included publicly-traded oil and gas companies.
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Kurt M. Reinecke
Mr. Reinecke has served as Executive Vice President — Exploration since February 2009. He served as Senior Vice President — Exploration, Southern Division from March 2006 until February 2009 and previously served as Vice President — Exploration, Southern Division from our inception in January 2002 through February 2006. From 1985 to 2001, Mr. Reinecke served as a Senior Exploration Geologist or Operations Geologist in numerous Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent basins for Barrett Resources Corporation, prior to the acquisition of that company by The Williams Companies.
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Terry R. Barrett
Mr. Barrett has served as Senior Vice President — Rockies Exploration since February 2009. He served as Senior Vice President — Exploration, Northern Division from March 2006 through February 2009 and previously served as Vice President — Exploration, Northern Division from our inception in January 2002 through February 2006. From 1989 to 2001, Mr. Barrett served as Senior Geologist or Project Geologist in numerous Rocky Mountain basins for Barrett Resources Corporation, and its successor, The Williams Companies. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Barrett was a general partner in Terred Oil Company, a private oil and gas partnership providing geologic services for the Rocky Mountain Region. From 1983 to 1987, Mr. Barrett worked as a contract project and field geologist for Barrett Resources.
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Lynn Boone Henry
Ms. Henry has served as Senior Vice President — Planning and Reserves since February 2009. She served as Vice President — Reservoir Engineering from January 2005 until February 2009. From October 2003 until January 2005, Ms. Henry served as our Reservoir Engineering Manager. From January 2003 until October 2003, Ms. Henry served as the Senior Reservoir Engineer for our Wind River Basin team. From January 2002 until joining the Company in January 2003, Ms. Henry was an independent consultant on reservoir engineering projects for various Rocky Mountain exploration and production companies. From 1998 until 2002, Ms. Henry served as a Reserves Manager and Project Manager for Cody Energy, LLC in Denver.
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Wilfred R. (Roy) Roux
Mr. Roux has served as Senior Vice President — Geophysics since March 2006 and previously served as Vice President — Geophysics from February 2002 through February 2006. Prior to joining us, Mr. Roux was employed by Barrett Resources and The Williams Companies from July 1995 until January 2002, including as Senior Geoscientist and Senior Geophysicist.
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Huntington (Hunt) T. Walker
Mr. Walker has served as Senior Vice President — Land since March 2006 and previously served as Vice President — Land from our inception in January 2002 through February 2006. From June 1981 through December 2001, Mr. Walker was self employed in the oil and gas industry as an independent landman performing consulting work for various clients, including Barrett Resources, and investing in oil and gas properties for his own account. From May 1979 through June 1981, Mr. Walker was employed by Hunt Energy Corporation in its Denver office.
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R. Scot Woodall
Mr. Woodall has served as Senior Vice President – Operations since April 2007. Mr. Woodall previously served as Senior Vice President – Western US for Forest Oil from 2004 to April 2007 and as Drilling and Production Manager for Forest Oil from 2000 until 2004.
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Duane J. Zavadil
Mr. Zavadil has served as Senior Vice President — Government and Regulatory Affairs since February 2009. He served as Vice President — Government and Regulatory Affairs from January 2005 until February 2009. From the time that he joined the Company in July 2002 until January 2005, Mr. Zavadil served as our Government and Regulatory Affairs Manager. From 1994 until July 2002, Mr. Zavadil served as the Environmental, Health and Safety Manager with Barrett Resources Corporation and its successor, The Williams Companies. Mr. Zavadil was a consultant providing environmental and regulatory services to the oil and gas industry from 1984 through 1994.
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William M. Crawford
Mr. Crawford has served as Vice President — Finance since February 2009. He previously served as Director — Finance, financial analyst and in other functions in the finance department since joining the Company in 2004. From 1994 through 2003, Mr. Crawford held various domestic and international positions in accounting and finance with several subsidiaries of Schlumberger Limited, a U.S. and international oilfield services company.
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Kevin M. Finnegan
Mr. Finnegan has served as our Vice President — Information Systems since March 2006. He previously served as our Director of Information Systems from July 2002 through February 2006. Mr. Finnegan served as IT Project Manager and IT Network Manager for AT&T Wireless Services Corporation from September 1996 until July 2002, and previously served as the IT Network and Telecommunications Administrator for Barrett Resources Corporation and as Electronic System — Test Engineer and Technician for Martin Marietta Corporation.
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David R. Macosko
Mr. Macosko has served as Vice President — Accounting since May 2006 and previously served as our Controller since June 2005 and as Manager Operations Accounting from 2003 until May 2005. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Macosko owned and operated his own franchise business from 2000 until 2002 and served in various accounting capacities at other oil and gas companies.
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ABOUT BBG | Outside Directors

James (Jim) M. Fitzgibbons
Mr. Fitzgibbons has served as a director since July 2004. Mr. Fitzgibbons also has served as a Director/Trustee of Dreyfus Laurel Funds, a series of mutual funds, since 1994. From January 1998 until 2001, Mr. Fitzgibbons served as Chairman of the Board of Davidson Cotton Company. From January 1994 until it was sold in August 2001, Mr. Fitzgibbons served as a director of Barrett Resources, for which he also served as a director from July 1987 until October 1992. From October 1990 through December 1997, Mr. Fitzgibbons was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc.
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Randy A. Foutch
Mr. Foutch has served as a director since July 2006. Since March 2007, Mr. Foutch has been servinga as a director of Helmerich & Payne, a publicly traded contract drilling company. In 2007, Mr. Foutch founded Laredo Petroleum, a Mid-Continent focused exploration and produciton company, where he serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He also founded Latigo Petroleum, Inc. in 2002 and served as its President and ChiefExecutive Officer until its sale to Pogo Producing Company in May 2006. Previously, Mr. Foutch founded Lariat Petroleum, Inc. in 1996 and served as President until January 2001 when it was sold to Newfield Exploration, Inc., where he then served as Vice President of Newfield Exploration Inc. Prior to founding Colt Resources in 1991, Mr. Foutch was Rocky Mountain Regional Manager for Anschutz Company and Vice President of Exploration for Dyco Petroleum. Mr. Foutch also serves on several nonprofit and industry boards.
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James (Jim) W. Mogg
Mr. Mogg has served as a Director of the Company since May 2007. Mr. Mogg also has served as a director for ONEOK, a publicly traded diversified energy and natural gas distribution company, since July 2007. From 2005 until 2007, Mr. Mogg served as Chairman of DCP Midstream Partners. From 2004 through 2006, Mr. Mogg was Group Vice President and Chief Development Officer for Duke Energy Corporation. From 2000 through 2003, Mr. Mogg was Chairman, President and CEO of Duke Energy Field Services and, as a member of TEPPCO’s board, served as Vice Chairman/Chairman. Previously, Mr. Mogg held various executive and senior management positions at Duke Energy and Pan Energy over a 27 year period. Mr. Mogg has also served on several nonprofit and industry boards, including being a past President of the Gas Processors Association.
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Edmund (Ed) P. Segner
Mr. Segner currently is a professor in the practice of engineering management in the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. In 2008, Mr. Segner retired from EOG
Resources, Inc. (EOG), a publicly traded independent oil and gas exploration and production
company. Among the positions he held at EOG was President and Chief of Staff and Director
from 1999 to 2007. During the period March 2003 through June 2007, he also served as the
principal financial officer. Mr. Segner’s background includes a Bachelor of Science in Civil
Engineering degree from Rice University, a Master of Arts in economics from the University of
Houston and he is a certified public accountant. He currently serves as a member of the board or
as a trustee for several non-profit organizations as well as being a director of Exterran Partners,
L.P. and Seahawk Drilling, Inc.
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Randy I. Stein
Mr. Stein has served as a director and the chair of our Audit Committee since July 2004. Mr. Stein is a self-employed tax and business consultant. Since January 2005, Mr. Stein has served as a director and chariman of the audit committee of Denbury Resources Inc., a publicly traded exploration and production company. From July 2000 until its sale in June 2004, Mr. Stein was a director of Westport Resources Corporation, a Denver based oil and natural gas exploration and development company, where Mr. Stein served as the chair of the audit committee. Mr. Stein served from 2001 through 2005 as a director of Koala Corporation, a Denver based public company engaged in the design, production and marketing of family convenience products, where he served on the audit and compensation committees. He also was a principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, formerly Coopers & Lybrand LLP, from November 1986 to June 30, 2000.
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Michael E. Wiley
Mr. Wiley has served as a director of the Company since January 2005. Mr. Wiley has served as a director of Tesoro Corporation, a publicly traded independent oil refiner and marketer and since 2004, as a director of Post Oak Bank, NA, a privately held bank. Since 2007, Mr. Wiley has served as a Trustee of Fidelity Funds, whcih manages mutual funds. Mr. Wiley served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Baker Hughes Incorporated, an oilfield services company, from August 2000 until October 2004. He also served as President of Baker Hughes from August 2000 to February 2004. Mr. Wiley was a director of Spinnaker Exploration from 2001 until its sale in 2005. He was President and Chief Operating Officer of Atlantic Richfield Company, an integrated energy company, from 1998 through May 2000. Prior to 1998, he served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vastar Resources, Inc., an independent oil and gas company.
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ABOUT BBG | Retired Founder

William J. (Bill) Barrett - Co-founder, Retired May 17, 2006
Mr. Barrett served as a Director since our inception in January 2002 Through May 17, 2006. Mr. Barrett served as our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from inception through February 2006. Mr. Barrett founded Barrett Resources Corporation ("Barrett Resources"), which was acquired in August 2001 by The Williams Companies. Mr. Barrett served as the Chief Executive Officer of Barrett Resources from December 1983 until November 18, 1999, except for the period from July 1, 1997 through March 23, 1998. He also served Barrett Resources as Chairman of the Board from September 1994 until March 2000, and as President from December 1983 until September 1994. From March 2000 until November 2001, Mr. Barrett was retired. From November 2001 until the formation of the Company in January 2002, Mr. Barrett consulted on the establishment of the Company and its planned activities. Prior to 1983, Mr. Barrett held various positions with several other oil and gas companies.
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