Phillips S. Baker, Jr.
Mr. Baker has been a QEP director since May 18, 2010. He served as a director of Questar Corporation from 2004 through June 30, 2010. He is the president, chief executive officer and a director of Hecla Mining Company, a gold and silver mining company. Mr. Baker served as chief financial officer of Hecla from 2001 to 2003, and as chief operating officer from 2001 to 2003, before being named as chief executive officer in May 2003. Mr. Baker has 26 years of business experience, including 17 years of financial management; 7 years as CEO of a NYSE company; and 16 years of directorships of public companies. He qualifies as an audit committee financial expert.
L. Richard Flury
Mr. Flury has been a QEP director since May 18, 2010. He served as a director of Questar Corporation from 2002 through June 30, 2010. He retired as chief executive, gas and power for BP plc on December 31, 2001. He served in that position from 1999 to his retirement. Prior to working for BP plc and BP Amoco plc, Mr. Flury held a number of key management positions with Amoco Corp., including chief executive for worldwide exploration and production. He has considerable experience in all aspects of the natural gas value chain gained during his long career in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Flury also serves as Chairman of Chicago Bridge and Iron Company N.V., and as a director of Callon Petroleum Company.
James A. Harmon
Mr. Harmon has been a QEP director since May 18, 2010. He served as a Questar Corporation director from 1976 to 1997 and from 2001 through June 30, 2010. Mr. Harmon is the chairman of Harmon & Co. LLC, a financial advisory firm. He served as the chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 1997 until 2001. Prior to that service, Mr. Harmon spent 35 years as an investment banker at Wertheim & Co., an international investment bank that partnered with Schroder (plc) (U.K.) to form Wertheim Schroder & Co. in 1986. Mr. Harmon served as chairman and CEO for ten years before leaving that firm in 1997. In 2004 Mr. Harmon was elected chairman of the board of the World Resources Institute (WRI), a global policy and research institution. He qualifies as an audit committee financial expert.
Robert E. McKee, III
Mr. McKee has been a QEP director since May 18, 2010. He served as a director of Questar Corporation from 2003 through June 30, 2010. He was a senior oil advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Oil Ministry in Iraq and assisted with the rebuilding of Iraq’s oil industry from September 1, 2003 to March 18, 2004. Mr. McKee retired in 2003, after 37 years with ConocoPhillips and Conoco, Inc., including 10 years as executive vice president, exploration and production (1992-2002). He is a director of Parker Drilling Company and Post Oak Bank, and a board member on the Colorado School of Mines Foundation. He recently retired as chairman of Enventure Global Technology, an expandable tubular technology company.
Keith O. Rattie
Mr. Rattie has been non-executive chairman of QEP since May 18, 2010. He is also a director of Questar Corporation, and has served as a director of that company since 2001. He served as Questar’s chairman, president and chief executive officer until June 30, 2010. He was named president of Questar in 2001, chief executive officer in 2002, and chairman in 2003. Mr. Rattie has worked in the natural gas and oil industry for 34 years. Prior to joining Questar, Mr. Rattie served as vice president and senior vice president of The Coastal Corporation from 1996 to 2001. He also serves as a director of ENSCO International, an offshore drilling contractor, and as a director of Zions First National Bank. He is the past chairman of the board of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
M. W. Scoggins
Dr. Scoggins has been a QEP director since May 18, 2010. He served as a director of Questar Corporation from 2005 through June 30, 2010. In June 2006, Dr. Scoggins was appointed President of Colorado School of Mines, an engineering and science research university. He retired in 2004 after a 34-year career with Mobil Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp., where he held senior executive positions in the upstream oil and gas business. From 1999 to 2004 he served as executive vice president of Exxon Mobil Production Co. Prior to the merger of Mobil and Exxon in late 1999, he was president, international exploration & production and global exploration, and an officer and member of the executive committee of Mobil Oil Corp. He currently serves as a director of Trico Marine Services, Inc., Venoco, Inc., and Cobalt International Energy. In addition, he is a director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and a member of the National Advisory Council of the United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Charles B. Stanley
Mr. Stanley has been a QEP director since May 18, 2010. He served as a director of Questar Corporation from 2002 through June 30, 2010. He serves as president and chief executive officer of QEP Resources. He previously served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Questar. Mr. Stanley has over 26 years of experience in the international and domestic upstream and midstream oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Questar, he served as president, chief executive officer and a director of El Paso Oil and Gas Canada, an upstream oil and gas company, from 2000 to 2002, and as president and chief executive officer of Coastal Gas International Company, a midstream infrastructure development company, from 1995 to 2000. Prior to joining Coastal, Mr. Stanley held various technical and management positions at British Petroleum and Maxus Energy Corporation. He is a director of Hecla Mining Company and serves on the boards of the American Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA), the American Exploration and Production Council (AXPC), and the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States (IPAMS).
