David J. Lesar
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David J. Lesar, age 52, is Chairman, President, and Chief executive officer of Halliburton Energy Services. Trained as a Certified Public Accountant, Lesar spent 16 years at Arthur Andersen, though he apparently doesn’t view that as a public relations plus, as his corporate biography omits his time at the firm that did Enron’s accounting. He had spent most of his career at Andersen, where he worked on their Halliburton account. In 1995, Lesar was hired by Halliburton as a new vice president.
Three months later he had a new boss, Dick Cheney. Within a year of his arrival, Cheney had fired Tommy Knight—a 32-year Kellogg, Brown and Root veteran—and named Lesar the new CEO of KBR, in addition to his duties as CFO of Halliburton. In May 1997, Cheney elevated Lesar to President and COO. After Cheney's departure, in 2000, Lesar became CEO of Halliburton. He also serves on the board of dirctors at Lyondell Chemical.
Mr. Lesar was born in Madison, Wisconsin and is a 1978 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a bachelor of science and his MBA. He serves on the board of directors at the Lyondell Corporation and is also a member of the Upstream Committee of the American Petroleum Institute. He currently resides in Houston Texas.
