The name, age, period of service, and title of each of our executive officers as of February 22, 2018, are listed below. Williams Partners L.P. merged with ACMP in February 2015 (the ACMP Merger). ACMP was the surviving entity in the ACMP Merger and changed its name to Williams Partners L.P. References in the biographical information below to (a) “Pre-merger WPZ” will mean Williams Partners L.P. prior to the ACMP Merger and (b) “ACMP/WPZ” will refer to both ACMP prior to and after the ACMP Merger, when it changed its name to Williams Partners L.P.
Alan S. Armstrong
Director, Chief Executive Officer, and President
Age: 55
Position held since January 2011.
Mr. Armstrong has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President and a director of Williams since January 2011. Mr. Armstrong has served as a director of the general partner of ACMP/WPZ since 2012, as Chief Executive Officer of ACMP/WPZ since December 31, 2014, and as Chairman of the Board of ACMP/WPZ since February 2, 2015. Mr. Armstrong also served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the general partner of Pre-merger WPZ from 2011 until the ACMP Merger, as Senior Vice President - Midstream of Pre-merger WPZ from 2010 to 2011, and a director and Chief Operating Officer of Pre-merger WPZ from 2005 to 2010. From 2002 to 2011, Mr. Armstrong served as Williams’ Senior Vice President - Midstream and acted as president of our midstream business. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Armstrong was Vice President, Gathering and Processing in our midstream business and from 1998 to 1999 was Vice President, Commercial Development. Mr. Armstrong has served as a director of BOK Financial Corporation, a financial services company, since 2013.
Walter J. Bennett
Senior Vice President - West
Age: 48
Position held since January 2015.
Mr. Bennett has served as our Senior Vice President - West since January 2015. Mr. Bennett has served as Senior Vice President - West of the general partner of ACMP/WPZ since December 2013 and as Senior Vice President - West of the general partner of Pre-merger WPZ from January 2015 until the ACMP Merger. Mr. Bennett previously served as a director of the general partner of ACMP/WPZ from February 2017 through November 2017. Mr. Bennett was formerly Chief Operating Officer of Chesapeake Midstream Development and served as Senior Vice President - Operations at Boardwalk Pipeline Partners.
John D. Chandler
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Age: 48
Position held since September 2017.
Mr. Chandler has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since September 2017, and as a director of the general partner of ACMP/WPZ since November 2017. Mr. Chandler most recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Magellan GP, LLC, the general partner of Magellan Midstream Partners, LP from 2009 until his retirement in March 2014. From 2003 until 2009, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the general partner of Magellan Midstream Holdings, L.P. From 1992 until 2002, Mr. Chandler held various accounting and finance roles within Williams and MAPCO Inc., prior to its acquisition by Williams. Mr. Chandler has served as a director of Matrix Service Company since June 2017.
Micheal G. Dunn
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Age: 52
Position held since February 2017.
Mr. Dunn has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and as a director of the general partner of ACMP/WPZ since February 2017. Previously, Mr. Dunn served as President of Questar Pipeline and as Executive Vice President of Questar Corporation from 2015 through 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Dunn served as President and Chief Executive Officer of PacifiCorp Energy from 2010 through 2015, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Energy. Earlier, Mr. Dunn was president of Kern River Gas Transmission Company, a Berkshire Hathaway Energy interstate natural gas pipeline subsidiary. He joined Kern River in 1990, having served in various leadership roles in the areas of operations, construction, engineering and information technology before being named President of Kern River in 2007. Mr. Dunn began his career with Williams as an operations engineer and spent 14 years with the company in a variety of technical and leadership roles.
Frank J. Ferazzi
Senior Vice President - Atlantic Gulf
Age: 61
Position held since June 2017
Mr. Ferazzi has served as our Senior Vice President - Atlantic-Gulf since June 2017. Previously, Mr. Ferazzi served as VP & GM Eastern Interstates from November 2014 through June 2017, and previously as VP & GM Transco from January 2013 through January 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Ferazzi served as VP Commercial Operations - Gas Pipeline from May 2010 through December 2012.
John E. Poarch
Senior Vice President - Engineering Services
Age: 52
Position held since November 2017.
Mr. Poarch has served as our Senior Vice President - Engineering Services since November 2017. Previously, he served as VP Commercial West OA from March 2017 through November 2017, and before that, as VP Commercial & Business Development from January 2015 through March 2017. Previously, Mr. Poarch was the general manager for Access Midstream’s Eagle Ford operations.
James E. Scheel
Senior Vice President - Northeast G&P
Age: 53
Position held since January 2014.
Mr. Scheel has served as our Senior Vice President - Northeast G&P since January 2014. Mr. Scheel served as a director of ACMP/WPZ from the ACMP Merger until November 2017. Mr. Scheel served as a director of the Pre-merger WPZ general partner from 2012 until the ACMP Merger. Mr. Scheel served as a director of the Pre-merger ACMP general partner from December 2012 to February 2014. Previously, Mr. Scheel served as Senior Vice President - Corporate Strategic Development of Williams and the Pre-merger WPZ general partner from February 2012 to January 2014. Mr. Scheel served as Vice President of Business Development of Williams’ midstream business from January 2011 to February 2012.
Ted T. Timmermans
Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer
Age: 61
Position held since July 2005.
Mr. Timmermans has served as our Vice President, Controller, and Chief Accounting Officer since July 2005. Mr. Timmermans has served in the same roles for the general partner of ACMP/WPZ since the ACMP Merger. Mr. Timmermans served as Chief Accounting Officer of WMZ from 2008 until its merger with Pre-Merger WPZ in 2010. Previously, Mr. Timmermans served as our Assistant Controller from 1998 to 2005.
T. Lane Wilson
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
Age: 51
Position held since April 2017.
Mr. Wilson has served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer since April 2017. Prior to joining Williams, Mr. Wilson served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma from 2009 until he joined Williams in April 2017. Mr. Wilson previously served as a shareholder and member of the board of directors of the Hall Estill law firm from 1994 through 2008.
Chad J. Zamarin
Senior Vice President - Corporate Strategic Development
Age: 41
Position held since June 2017.
Mr. Zamarin has served as our Senior Vice President - Corporate Strategic Development since June 2017. Mr. Zamarin has served as a director of the general partner of ACMP/WPZ since November 2017. Previously, he served as President, Pipeline and Midstream at Cheniere Energy from 2014 through 2017. Prior to joining Cheniere, Mr. Zamarin served as the Chief Operating Officer at NiSource Midstream, LLC and NiSource Energy Ventures, LLC, as well as the President of Pennant Midstream, LLC, a joint venture with Hilcorp Energy.
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