ConocoPhillips
appoints new HR vice president
Posted: 24 September 2003
The board of directors of ConocoPhillips has named Carin Knickel
to the position of vice president of human resources and as a member
of the company's management committee, effective October 1.
Knickel, 47, is currently president of the company's Specialty
Businesses division. After joining the company in 1979, she served
in a variety of operating and planning positions before being named
general manager of business development for refining and marketing
in Europe and general manager of business development for the U.K.
upstream business. She was named to her current position in 2001.
Born in Powell, Wyo., Knickel holds a bachelor's degree in marketing
and statistics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a
master's degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Tom Knudson, senior vice president since 2001, has elected to retire
after 29 years of service, effective Dec. 31, 2003. Knudson held
a number of project engineering, operations, business development
and trading positions before being named vice president and general
manager of natural gas and gas products in 1994, followed by an
appointment as chairman of Conoco exploration production Europe
Limited from 1997 to 2001. Knudson was the founding president of
the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD) in the Gulf
of Mexico and most recently was the founding Chairman of the BCSD:
North Sea Region.
ConocoPhillips is an integrated petroleum company with interests
around the world. Headquartered in Houston, the company had approximately
55,800 employees, $81 billion of assets, and $105 billion of annualized
revenues as of June 30, 2003.
For more information see www.conocophillips.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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