James T. Hackett

James T. Hackett

Board Member at Enterprise Products Partners
Company Tenure: 9 years
Biography:

James T. Hackett was elected as a director of Enterprise GP in April 2014 and serves as Chairman of its Governance Committee and as a member of its Capital Projects Committee. Mr. Hackett served as Executive Chairman of Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. (formerly named Silver Run Acquisition Corporation II) until March 2020. Mr. Hackett also serves as a faculty member at Rice University and The University of Texas (Austin). He previously served as an Advisor and Partner to private energy investing firm Riverstone Holdings, LLC. He served as Executive Chairman and CEO of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company, from 2003 to 2013. Mr. Hackett is also a board member of Fluor Corporation, NOV, Inc. and NuScale Power Corp. He is a former director of Cameron International and the former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He is a past Chairman (and now member) of the National Petroleum Council, a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, a member of the Baylor College of Medicine Board of Trustees, and a member of the Rice University Board of Trustees.

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