| Benjamin L. Ederington |
Benjamin L. Ederington is currently serving as the Secretary, Director & Chief Administrative Officer at Westlake Chemical Partners GP LLC. He is also the General Counsel at Westlake Chlor-Vinyls Corp. In addition, he holds the position of Chief Administrative Officer & General Counsel at Westlake Corp. and CAO, Executive VP & General Counsel at Westlake Chemical Partners LP. Previously, Benjamin worked as an Associate General Counsel-Commercial Transactions at Lyondell Chemical Co., LyondellBasell Industries NV, LyondellBasell Industries AF SCA, and LyondellBasell Industries NV (United Kingdom). He also served as an Attorney at Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Mr. Ederington completed his graduate degree at Harvard University and his undergraduate degree at Yale University. |
| Jeff Holy |
Jeff Holy is currently the Chief Accounting Officer & Vice President at Westlake Corp. He previously worked as the Treasurer & Vice President at Westlake Chemical Partners LP and as an Assistant Treasurer at FMC Technologies, Inc. Mr. Holy received his undergraduate degree from Trinity University and his graduate degrees from the University of Virginia and the London Business School. |
| Robert Ford Buesinger |
Robert Ford Buesinger is currently the Chairman at Westlake Compounds Italy Srl and the Co-Managing Director at RESITECH Germany GmbH. He is also the Executive VP-Information Technology & Digital at Westlake Corp. and the President at Westlake Pipe & Fittings Corp. In the past, Mr. Buesinger worked as a Director at Royal Group, Inc. and as the Managing Director at Westlake Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG. He was also the President & Managing Director at Chevron Phillips Singapore Chemicals Pte Ltd. from 2005 to 2008 and the President & GM-Performance Pipe Division at Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP in 2010. Additionally, he served as the Senior Vice President at Vinyl Corp. (United States) from 2010 to 2017. Mr. Buesinger completed his undergraduate degree at Tulane University (Louisiana). |
| Johnathan S. Zoeller |
Johnathan S. Zoeller's current job(s) include Treasurer & Vice President at Westlake Corp., Chief Accounting Officer & Vice President at Westlake Chemical Partners LP, and Chief Accounting Officer & Vice President at Westlake Chemical Partners GP LLC. His former job was as a Partner at KPMG LLP. He completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Mississippi. |
| Mark Steven Bender |
Mark Steven Bender is currently the Chief Financial Officer, Director & Executive VP at Westlake Chemical Partners LP. He is also the Co-Managing Director at Westlake Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG and Westlake Vinnolit Holdings GmbH. Additionally, he holds the position of Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Director & SVP at Westlake Chemical Partners GP LLC since 2014. He is the Director at Shriram Axiall Pvt Ltd. since 2017 and the Chief Financial Officer at Westlake Chlor-Vinyls Corp. He previously worked as the Assistant Treasurer at Halliburton Co. from 1996 to 2002 and as the Treasurer & Vice President at KBR, Inc. from 2002 to 2005. He also held the position of Principal at Texas Eastern Corp. Mr. Bender holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University and an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University. |
| James Yuan Chao |
James Yuan Chao's current jobs include being the Chairman at Westlake Corp., Chairman at Driptech, Inc., Chairman at Westlake Chemical Partners GP LLC, Chairman at Westlake Chemical Partners LP, Director at Baylor College of Medicine, Director at Knowledge is Power Program Organization, Director at Westlake Chemical OpCo GP LLC, and Trustee at KIPP Houston Public Schools. His former jobs include being the Executive Chairman at Lotte Chemical Titan Holding Bhd., Managing Director at Westlake Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG, Principal at Mattel, Inc., and Principal at Chevron U.S.A., Inc. He holds an MBA from The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York and an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| Yuan Chao |
Yuan Chao is currently the President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Westlake Corp. He also holds the position of President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Westlake Chemical Partners LP, President & Chief Executive Officer at Westlake US 2 LLC, President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Westlake Chemical Partners GP LLC, Chief Executive Officer at Westlake Royal Building Products (USA), Inc., President & Director at Westlake Chlor-Vinyls Corp., President & Director at Westlake Longview Corp., Director-at-Large at Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc., Co-Managing Director at Westlake Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG, Director at Business Committee for the Arts, Inc., Director at The Titan Group, Co-Managing Director at Westlake Vinnolit Holdings GmbH, Director at Westlake Pipe & Fittings Corp., Director at Westlake Chemical OpCo GP LLC, Co-Managing Director at Westlake Germany GmbH & Co. KG, President at Westlake Polymers LLC, and Trustee at Rice University. Previously, Mr. Chao worked as a Director at Royal Group, Inc., Non-Independent Non-Executive Director at Lotte Chemical Titan Holding Bhd., Deputy Managing Director-Singapore at China General Plastics Corp., Group Controller-Technical Department at Hercules, Inc., Controller-Plastics Group at Chevron U.S.A., Inc., and Group Controller at ExxonMobil Oil Corp. Mr. Chao holds an MBA degree from The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York and an undergraduate degree from Brandeis University. |
| Kimberly S. Lubel |
Kimberly S. Lubel is currently the Chief Executive Officer at CST Services LLC. She also holds the position of Chairman-Trustees Board at United Way of San Antonio & Bexar County. Additionally, she is an Independent Director at Westlake Corp., PBF Energy Co. LLC, PBF Energy, Inc., Southwest Research Institute, United Ways of Texas, Inc., Arcosa, Inc., and a Trustee at University of Texas Law School Foundation. In her former roles, Ms. Lubel served as the Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at CST Brands LLC (Texas) from 2013 to 2017. She was also the Executive Chairman at CrossAmerica Partners LP and Chairman at CrossAmerica GP LLC from 2014 to 2017. Furthermore, she served as an Independent Director at WPX Energy, Inc. from 2011 to 2021. She has also held positions at Valero Energy Corp. as the Executive Vice President & General Counsel from 2008 to 2012 and at Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP as an Associate. Ms. Lubel obtained her graduate degree from Baylor University and The University of Texas School of Law. She completed her undergraduate degree at Miami University. |
| Michael J. Graff |
Michael J. Graff is currently the Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at American Air Liquide Holdings, Inc. He is also the Chairman at Airgas, Inc., Air Liquide Canada, Inc., Air Liquide USA LLC, U.S. Society of Chemical Industry, and Westlake Corp. Additionally, he serves as a Director at the Chamber of Commerce of The United States of America, the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Chemistry Council, Inc., Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas, Inc., and Children At Risk. He is an Independent Director at Westlake Corp. and a Member-Leadership Council at The Methodist Hospital. He is a Trustee at Illinois Institute of Technology and the George & Barbara Bush Foundation. He is a Member of The National Petroleum Council, the Greater Houston Partnership Inc, and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. He is also a Principal at the American Energy Innovation Council. In his former positions, he was the President & CEO-Polymers Americas at BP Plc and an Independent Director at The Lubrizol Corp. He also served as a Director at the American Plastics Council, Inc. and was a Principal at BP America, Inc. and Amoco Corp. Mr. Graff received his undergraduate degree from Illinois Institute of Technology and The University of Chicago, and his graduate degree from Purdue University. |
| Marius A. Haas |
Marius A. Haas currently works at Westlake Corp., as Independent Director from 2018, US-China Business Council, as Director, Ernst & Young LLP (Missouri), as Member-Corporate Development, and BayPine Capital, as Founding Partner. Mr. Haas also formerly worked at Mojo Networks LLC, as Director, Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, as Director, Compaq Computer Corp., as Vice President-Marketing from 1995 to 2000, Dell, Inc., as President-Solutions & Chief Commercial Officer from 2012 to 2016, EMC Corp., as President & Chief Commercial Officer from 2016 to 2020, HP, Inc., as Chief Strategy Officer, SVP & Global Manager from 2005 to 2011, Intel Corp., as Manager from 1991 to 1995, Ernst & Young LLP, as Member-Corporate Development Leadership Network, McKinsey & Co., Inc., as Chief Strategy Council in 2013, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP, as Advisor, and Dell Technologies, Inc., as President & Chief Commercial Officer from 2016 to 2020. Mr. Haas received his Masters Business Admin degree from Thunderbird School of Global Management and undergraduate degree in 1990 from Georgetown University. |
| Mark A. McCollum |
Mark A. McCollum is currently an Independent Director at Marathon Oil Corp. and Westlake Corp. He is also a Director at Marathon Oil Co., Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Seadrill Ltd., and The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Additionally, he serves as a Member-Regents Board at Baylor University and as a Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President at Halliburton Group Canada, Inc. Mr. McCollum is a former President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Weatherford International plc. He has also held positions as Chairman at Star of Hope Mission, Director at Butler Manufacturing Co., and Director at Universal Compression Partners LP. Furthermore, he has served as a Director at Exterran GP LLC, Archrock, Inc., KBR, Inc., Seadrill Ltd., Archrock Partners LP, Halliburton Co., and Tenneco, Inc. Mr. McCollum started his career as an Audit Partner-Energy Division at Arthur Andersen LLP and later held the position of Chief Accounting Officer & Senior Vice President at Halliburton Energy Services Group. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Baylor University in 1980. |
| Jeffrey W. Sheets |
Jeffrey W. Sheets is currently an Independent Director at SLB NV since 2019, an Independent Director at Westlake Corp. since 2018, a Director at Theatre Under The Stars, an Independent Director at Enerplus Corp. since 2017, and a Trustee at Missouri University of Science & Technology. Previously, he worked as a Director at DCP Midstream LP from 2010 to 2011, a Director at Oil Investment Corp. Ltd., a Director at Council of the Americas, Inc., a Director at DCP Midstream GP LLC from 2010 to 2011, a Director at DCP Midstream Partners LP, and as the Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President at ConocoPhillips from 2010 to 2016. He holds an MBA from the University of Houston (1989) and an undergraduate degree from Missouri University of Science & Technology (1980). |
| R. Bruce Northcutt |
R. Bruce Northcutt is currently the President & Chief Executive Officer Partner at Navitas Midstream Partners LLC. He is also the Chief Executive Officer at Navitas Midstream Midland Basin LLC, the Vice Chairman at Cantera Gas Co. LLC, an Independent Director at Westlake Corp., and a Director at Ball Ventures LLC starting in 2023. Previously, he held positions such as President, Chief Executive Officer & Director at Copano Energy LLC from 2010 to 2013, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at Navitas Midstream Management, LLC from 2014 to 2022, President at Alpheus Communications LLC from 2001 to 2003, and President at El Paso Gas Services Co. from 2001 to 2003. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Texas Tech University. |
| Catherine T. Chao |
Catherine T. Chao is currently an Independent Director at Westlake Corp. She is also a Member of The American Institute of Architects and the American Planning Association. In 2017, she became the Manager at Tanglewood Property Management Co., L L C. Ms. Chao holds an MBA from The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York. She completed her undergraduate studies at Stanford University and her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design. |
