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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position
McClendon, Aubrey 49 1989 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Rowland, Marcus 56 1998 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Dixon, Steven 50 2006 Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President - Operations
Jacobson, Douglas 55 2006 Executive Vice President - Acquisitions and Divestitures
Johnson, Michael 43 2000 Senior Vice President - Accounting, Chief Accounting Officer, Controller
Hood, Henry 48 2006 Senior Vice President - Land and Legal, General Counsel
Grigsby, Jennifer 40 2007 Senior Vice President, Treasurer, Corporate Secretary
Burger, Martha 56 2007 Senior Vice President - Human and Corporate Resources
Whittemore, Frederick 78 1993 Director
Maxwell, Charles 77 2002 Director
Keating, Frank 65 2003 Director
Nickles, Donald 60 2005 Director
Davidson, Richard 67 2006 Director
Miller, Merrill 58 2007 Director
Hargis, V. Burns 63 2008 Director
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Biographies

Name Description
McClendon, Aubrey Aubrey K. McClendon has served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and a director since co-founding Chesapeake Energy Corporation in 1989. From 1982 to 1989, Mr. McClendon was an independent producer of oil and natural gas. Mr. McClendon graduated from Duke University in 1981.
Rowland, Marcus Marcus C. Rowland was appointed Executive Vice President in 1998 and has been the Chesapeake Energy Corporation's Chief Financial Officer since 1993. He served as Senior Vice President from 1997 to 1998 and as Vice President—Finance from 1993 until 1997. From 1990 until he joined the Company, Mr. Rowland was Chief Operating Officer of Anglo-Suisse, L.P. assigned to the White Nights Russian Enterprise, a joint venture of Anglo-Suisse, L.P. and Phibro Energy Corporation, a major foreign operation which was granted the right to engage in oil and gas operations in Russia. Prior to his association with White Nights Russian Enterprise, Mr. Rowland owned and managed his own oil and gas company and prior to that was Chief Financial Officer of a private exploration company in Oklahoma City from 1981 to 1985. Mr. Rowland is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Rowland graduated from Wichita State University in 1975.
Dixon, Steven Mr. Dixon has been Executive Vice President—Operations and Chief Operating Officer of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since February 2006. Mr. Dixon was Senior Vice President—Production from 1995 to February 2006 and served as Vice President—Exploration from 1991 to 1995. Mr. Dixon was a self-employed geological consultant in Wichita, Kansas from 1983 through 1990. He was employed by Beren Corporation in Wichita, Kansas from 1980 to 1983 as a geologist. Mr. Dixon graduated from the University of Kansas in 1980.
Jacobson, Douglas Mr. Jacobson has been Executive Vice President—Acquisitions and Divestitures since April 2006. He served as Senior Vice President—Acquisitions and Divestitures from 1999 to March 2006. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Jacobson was employed by Samson Investment Company from 1980 until 1999, where he served as Senior Vice President—Project Development and Marketing from 1996 to 1999. Prior to joining Samson, Mr. Jacobson was employed by Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Mr. Jacobson has served on various Oklahoma legislative commissions which have addressed issues in the oil and gas industry, including the Commission of Oil and Gas Production Practices and the Natural Gas Policy Commission. Mr. Jacobson is a Certified Public Accountant and graduated from John Brown University in 1976 and from the University of Arkansas in 1977.
Johnson, Michael Michael A. Johnson has served as Senior Vice President—Accounting, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since 2000. He served as Vice President of Accounting and Financial Reporting from 1998 to 2000 and as Assistant Controller from 1993 to 1998. From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Johnson served as Project Manager for Phibro Energy Production, Inc., a Russian joint venture. From 1987 to 1991, he was employed by Arthur Andersen & Co. Mr. Johnson is a Certified Public Accountant and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987.
Hood, Henry Henry J. Hood was appointed General Counsel of Chesapeake Energy Corporation in April 2006, and has served as Senior Vice President—Land and Legal since 1997. He served as Vice President—Land and Legal from 1995 to 1997. Mr. Hood was retained as a consultant to the Company during the two years prior to his joining the Company, and he was associated with the law firm of White, Coffey, Galt & Fite from 1992 to 1995. He was associated with or a partner of the law firm of Watson & McKenzie from 1987 to 1992. Mr. Hood is a member of the Oklahoma and Texas Bar Associations. Mr. Hood graduated from Duke University in 1982 and from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1985.
Grigsby, Jennifer Jennifer M. Grigsby has served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since March 2007 and as Corporate Secretary since 2000. She served as Vice President from April 2006 to March 2007 and as Assistant Treasurer from 1998 to March 2007. From 1995 to 1998, she served in various accounting positions with the Company. Ms. Grigsby was employed by Commander Aircraft Company as Supervisor of Finance and Human Resources from 1994 to 1995 and by Deloitte & Touche LLC from 1991 to 1994. Ms. Grigsby is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Equity Professional. She graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1991 and from Oklahoma City University in 1999.
Burger, Martha Martha A. Burger has served as Senior Vice President—Human and Corporate Resources of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since March 2007. She served as Treasurer from 1995 to March 2007 and as Senior Vice President—Human Resources since 2000. She was the Company’s Vice President—Human Resources from 1998 until 2000, Human Resources Manager from 1996 to 1998 and Corporate Secretary from 1999 to 2000. From 1994 to 1995, she served in various accounting positions with the Company, including Assistant Controller—Operations. From 1989 to 1993, Ms. Burger was employed by Hadson Corporation as Assistant Treasurer and from 1993 to 1994 served as Vice President and Controller of Hadson Corporation. Prior to joining Hadson Corporation, Ms. Burger was employed by The Phoenix Resource Companies, Inc. as Assistant Treasurer and by Arthur Andersen & Co. Ms. Burger is a Certified Public Accountant and graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1982 and from Oklahoma City University in 1992.
Whittemore, Frederick Frederick B. Whittemore has been a director of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since 1993. Mr. Whittemore has been an advisory director of Morgan Stanley since 1989 and was a managing director or partner of the predecessor firms of Morgan Stanley from 1967 to 1989. He was Vice-Chairman of the American Stock Exchange from 1982 to 1984. Mr. Whittemore graduated from Dartmouth College in 1953 and from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1954.
Maxwell, Charles Charles T. Maxwell has been a director of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since 2002. Mr. Maxwell has been a Senior Energy Analyst with Weeden & Co., an institutional brokerage firm located in Greenwich, Connecticut, from late 1999 to the present. Entering the oil and natural gas industry in 1957, Mr. Maxwell worked for what is now ExxonMobil for eleven years in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 1968, Mr. Maxwell joined C.J. Lawrence, an institutional research and brokerage firm, as an oil analyst. He was ranked by Institutional Investor Magazine as No. 1 in his field in 1972, 1974, 1977, and 1981 through 1986. He rose to the position of Managing Director of C. J. Lawrence/Morgan Grenfell and retired from the firm in 1997, several years after it was acquired by Deutsche Bank. Mr. Maxwell is a director of American DG Energy Inc., a provider of on-site electric power co-generating services and hot water based in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is also a director of Daleco Resources Corporation (DLOV.OB), a minerals exploration and production company located in West Chester, Pennsylvania; and Lescarden, Inc. (LCAR.OB), a biotechnology company in New York. Mr. Maxwell graduated from Princeton University in 1953 and Oxford University in 1957.
Keating, Frank Frank A. Keating has been a director of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since June 2003. Governor Keating has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Council of Life Insurers, a large trade organization based in Washington, D.C., since January 2003. Governor Keating became a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1969 and then served as Assistant District Attorney in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. In 1972, Governor Keating was elected to the Oklahoma State House of Representatives and two years later was elected to the Oklahoma State Senate. In 1981, Governor Keating was appointed as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma and in 1985, he began seven years of service in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations serving as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Associate Attorney General in the Justice Department and as General Counsel and Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 1994, Governor Keating was elected as Oklahoma’s 25th Governor and served two consecutive four-year terms. Governor Keating is an advisory director of Stewart Information Services Corporation (NYSE:STC), a real estate information and transaction management company located in Houston, Texas. Governor Keating graduated from Georgetown University in 1966 and from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1969.
Nickles, Donald Donald L. Nickles has been a member of the Board of Directors of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since January 2005. Senator Nickles is the founder and President of The Nickles Group, a consulting and business venture firm in Washington, D.C. Senator Nickles was elected to represent Oklahoma in the United States Senate from 1980 to 2005 where he held numerous leadership positions, including Assistant Republican Leader from 1996 to 2003 and Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee from 2003 to 2005. Senator Nickles also served on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Finance Committee. Prior to his service in the U.S. Senate, Senator Nickles served in the Oklahoma State Senate from 1979 to 1980 and worked for Nickles Machine Corporation in Ponca City, Oklahoma becoming Vice President and General Manager. Senator Nickles is also a director of Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO), an independent oil refiner headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Fortress International Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:FIGI), a company based in Columbia, Maryland which provides specialized security services, and Washington Mutual Investors Fund. Senator Nickles served in the National Guard from 1970 to 1976 and graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1971.
Davidson, Richard Richard K. Davidson has been a member of the Board of Directors of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since March 2006. Mr. Davidson served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) from 1997 until February 2007 and as its Chief Executive Officer from 1997 until February 2006. He started his railroad career in 1960 with Missouri Pacific Railroad and held various positions of increasing authority before being named Vice President of Operations in 1976. In 1982, Union Pacific merged with the Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific railroads, and in 1986, Mr. Davidson was promoted to Vice President of Operations of the combined railroads. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in 1989 and became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Union Pacific Railroad in 1991. He was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Union Pacific Corporation in 1997. Mr. Davidson is currently a member of the board of advisors of Thayer/Hidden Creek, a private equity firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. He formerly served on the board of the Association of American Railroads, as chairman of the President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council, and as a director and trustee of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Awards Foundation. Mr. Davidson graduated from Washburn University in 1966 and has completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard University.
Miller, Merrill Mr. Miller has been a director of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since January 2007. Mr. Miller is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE:NOV), a supplier of oilfield services, equipment and components to the worldwide oil and natural gas industry. Mr. Miller joined National Oilwell in 1996 as Vice President of Marketing, Drilling Systems and was promoted in 1997 to President of the company’s products and technology group. In 2000, he was named President and Chief Operating Officer, in 2001 was elected President and Chief Executive Officer and in 2002 was also elected Chairman of the Board. Mr. Miller served as President of Anadarko Drilling Company from 1995 to 1996. Prior to his service at Anadarko, Mr. Miller spent fifteen years at Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, serving in various senior management positions, including Vice President, U.S. Operations. Mr. Miller graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York in 1972. Upon graduation, he served five years in the United States Army and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1980. Mr. Miller serves on the Board of Directors for the Offshore Energy Center, Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association and Spindletop International, and is a member of the National Petroleum Council.
Hargis, V. Burns V. Burns Hargis has been a member of the Board of Directors of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since September 2008. Mr. Hargis has been the President of Oklahoma State University since March 2008. Before being named OSU President, Mr. Hargis was Vice Chairman of BOK Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:BOKF) from 1997 to 2008 and is currently a director of BOK. Before joining BOK, he practiced law in Oklahoma City for 28 years, most recently with the firm of McAfee & Taft. In 1967, Mr. Hargis entered the United States Army as a Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Military Intelligence, and was honorably discharged as a Captain, U.S. Army Reserves, in 1977. Mr. Hargis is a former president of the Oklahoma County Bar Association, former president of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Mr. Hargis previously served as vice-chairman of the Oklahoma State Election Board, the Oklahoma Constitutional Revision Commission, chairman of the Oklahoma Commission for Human Services, chairman of the Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges of Oklahoma State University and a member of the Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Mr. Hargis graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1967 and from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1970.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total
McClendon, Aubrey 100,069,000
Rowland, Marcus 9,317,160
Dixon, Steven 7,049,740
Jacobson, Douglas 12,089,700
Johnson, Michael 1,447,140
Hood, Henry --
Grigsby, Jennifer --
Burger, Martha 7,155,520
Whittemore, Frederick --
Maxwell, Charles --
Keating, Frank --
Nickles, Donald --
Davidson, Richard --
Miller, Merrill --
Hargis, V. Burns --
As Of 30 Dec 2008

Options Compensation

Name Options Value
McClendon, Aubrey 5,034,135 130,370,500
Rowland, Marcus 167,497 3,966,416
Dixon, Steven 160,000 7,603,400
Jacobson, Douglas 54,425 1,953,540
Johnson, Michael 115,000 2,751,853
Hood, Henry 0 0
Grigsby, Jennifer 0 0
Burger, Martha 445,500 12,222,440
Whittemore, Frederick 0 0
Maxwell, Charles 0 0
Keating, Frank 0 0
Nickles, Donald 0 0
Davidson, Richard 0 0
Miller, Merrill 0 0
Hargis, V. Burns 0 0

Insider Trading

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LESTER J MARK 4,982 $24.78
LESTER J MARK 4,510 $24.78
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LESTER J MARK 677 $24.78
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LESTER J MARK 4,510 $24.78
LESTER J MARK 677 $24.78
LESTER J MARK 5,244 $24.78
LESTER J MARK 45,640 $0.00
LESTER J MARK 4,351 $24.78
LESTER J MARK 677 $24.78
LESTER J MARK 5,244 $24.78
LESTER J MARK 4,982 $24.78
LESTER J MARK 4,510 $24.78
BURGER MARTHA A 45,000 $0.00
JACOBSON DOUGLAS J 80,000 $0.00
GRIGSBY JENNIFER M 40,000 $0.00
HOOD HENRY J 40,000 $0.00
MCCLENDON AUBREY KERR 450,000 $0.00
JOHNSON MICHAEL A 40,000 $0.00
ROWLAND MARCUS C 100,000 $0.00
DIXON STEVEN C 100,000 $0.00
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