Aubrey McClendon

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Aubrey Kerr McClendon is the CEO, chairman, and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy and co-owner of the Seattle Sonic & Storm basketball teams.

McClendon is on the board of directors at Chesapeake, which, among others, includes prominent Oklahoma politicians Frank Keating and Don Nickles. He co-founded Chesapeake, one of the largest natural gas producers in the United States, along with the company's former president Tom L. Ward in 1989.

McClendon's donation of $1.1 million to Gary Bauer's Americans United to Preserve Marriage, a group that opposes same-sex marriage, became a factor in the basketball franchise's efforts to lobby Washington State Legislature to bankroll a new stadium for the teams. [1]

McClendon graduated from Duke University in 1981. He met his wife Katie, a 1980 Duke graduate, while attending college there.

He was born in Oklahoma City in 1959 to Joe and Carole McClendon.

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