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Moffett, James R. | Adkerson, Richard C. |
Quirk, Kathleen L. | Arnold, Michael J.
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Moffett, James R.
Mr. Moffett is the Chairman of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Mr. Moffett also serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of McMoRan Exploration Co. (MMR).
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 several 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 been a board member since 1992
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Adkerson, Richard C.
Richard C. Adkerson is the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. He also serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of McMoRan Exploration Co. (MMR).
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.
Mississippi State University Establishes
Richard C. Adkerson School of
Accountancy - Honors Alumnus/FCX CEO.
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Quirk, Kathleen L.
Ms. Quirk is the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of FCX. Ms. Quirk has nineteen years of experience in the Freeport-McMoRan organization. She has played key roles in the Company’s financings and corporate transactions, and she was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer prior to the Phelps Dodge transaction. During her career, she has held positions of increasing responsibility in tax, investor relations, treasury and finance. Ms. Quirk is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a B.S. degree in Accounting.
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Arnold, Michael J.
Mr. Arnold is the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of FCX. He joined Freeport-McMoRan in 1991, after working actively with the organization for approximately ten years as a consultant for its business processes and management information systems. He is a former partner in Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. After serving as Freeport-McMoRan’s Chief Management Information Officer and in a number of senior administrative positions, Mr. Arnold relocated to PT Freeport Indonesia’s jobsite in Papua, Indonesia in 2000, where he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of PT Freeport Indonesia until 2007. He is a graduate of Spring Hill College with a B.S. in Mathematics and received an MBA from Louisiana State University.
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