APA CORPORATION - Key Persons


Amy H. Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Contributions to Our Board
  • Member of Committee
Age: 54 | Director Since: February 2014 | APA Committees: Audit, CRG&N | Other Public Company Boards: Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc.

Annell R. Bay - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of Management Development and Compensation Committee
  • Member of the Contributions to Our Board
  • Chairman of Committee
  • Chairman of Our CRG & N Committee
  • Member of Our MD & C Committee
Age: 67 | Director Since: May 2014 | APA Committees: CRG&N, Chair and MD&C | Other Public Company Boards: Hunting PLC Having served as Chair of our CRG&N Committee and a member of our MD&C Committee, Ms. Bay has been a driving force behind APA's approach to ESG leadership and engagement.

Ben C. Rodgers

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President / Treasurer and Midstream and Marketing
BEN C. RODGERS was named senior vice president - treasurer and Midstream and Marketing in April 2020. Previously, he was vice president and treasurer. Mr. Rodgers joined the company from EIG Global Energy Partners, where he served as senior vice president and led an investment team focusing on originating and managing oil and gas debt and equity investments in North America. Before that, he was with Concho Resources serving in a variety of leadership roles including vice president of Commodities and Midstream and vice president and treasurer. He also held the role of vice president, Syndicated and Leveraged Finance, in the Investment Banking Division of J.P. Morgan Securities. Before that, he was senior consultant in the Advisory Services group at Ernst & Young. Mr. Rodgers holds a Master of Business Administration in finance from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor's degree in finance from Texas A&M University.

Brandy Jones

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Human Resources
BRANDY JONES was named vice president - Human Resources in April 2020. Previously, Ms. Jones was senior HR manager, Corporate and Permian Region. She held various positions at Apache, including five years as senior manager, HR for the Permian Region. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Jones held a variety of human resources and labor relations roles with ArcelorMittal and Bethlehem Steel. Ms. Jones holds a Master of Business Administration from Indiana University-Northwest and a Bachelor of Science degree in organizational leadership and supervision from Purdue University North Central.

Carla Tharp

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Corporate Development

Castlen M. Kennedy

Job Titles:
  • Vice President / Corporate Communications and Public Affairs

Chansoo Joung

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Audit Committee
  • Member of Committee

Clay Bretches

Job Titles:
  • Member of the View Board of Directors
  • Executive Vice President / Operations

Daniel W. Rabun

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Contributions to Our Board
  • Member of Committee

David A. Pursell

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President / Development
DAVID A. PURSELL is executive vice president of Development. Mr. Pursell previously served as executive vice president of Planning, Reserves and Fundamentals. Before joining the company in early 2018, Mr. Pursell served as managing director of Investment Banking for Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. (TPH). Previously, he served as head of Macro Research and was one of the founders of Pickering Energy Partners, Inc. in 2004. Prior to that, Mr. Pursell was director of Upstream Research at Simmons & Company International. Earlier in his career, he worked in various production and reservoir engineering assignments at S.A. Holditch and Associates, which is now part of Schlumberger. While at Holditch, Mr. Pursell's focus was on unconventional gas development in the U.S. and India as well as international field studies in Mexico, Egypt, Venezuela, Indonesia, and Russia. He began his career at ARCO Alaska in Anchorage with production and operations engineering assignments in South Alaska and the North Slope. Mr. Pursell holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University.

David L. Stover

Job Titles:
  • Member of Management Development and Compensation Committee
  • Member of the Contributions to Our Board
  • Member of Committee
Age: 65 | Director Since: February 2022 | APA Committees: Cybersecurity, MD&C | Other Public Company Boards: None

Eric Crabtree


Fay Fitzsimons Walker

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Government Affairs & Community Partnerships

Gary T. Clark

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Investor Relations
GARY T. CLARK was named vice president of investor relations in August 2014. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Clark was vice president of investor relations and research at Chesapeake Energy Corporation since 2012. Prior to that, he accumulated 18 years of experience on both the buy-side and sell-side oil and gas equity markets. His buy-side experience includes serving as senior securities analyst with the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio and co-portfolio manager with Dynamis Advisors, LLC. On the sell-side, his experience includes serving as senior exploration and production (E&P) coverage research analyst with Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc., where he was selected by The Wall Street Journal's Best on the Street ranking as one of the nine "home-run hitters" across all sectors and firms. Mr. Clark began his career in Apache's Treasury department in the early 1990s. Mr. Clark holds a CFA designation and is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in business administration/finance.

Jeremy Hill - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President
  • Vice President - Global Supply Chain
JEREMY HILL was appointed vice president - Global Supply Chain in January 2020 and is responsible for end-to-end strategy and operational performance of the company's global supply chain, which includes Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, Contracting, Procurement, Logistics and Inventory Management. Previously, Mr. Hill oversaw the centralization of Apache's global supply chain organization. He joined Apache in 2017 as director of Corporate Supply Chain. Before joining Apache, Mr. Hill held numerous supply chain leadership positions at C&J Energy Services and Phillips 66 / ConocoPhillips. He began his career at American Airlines where he held various roles of increasing responsibility. Mr. Hill has a Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management from Arizona State University.

Jessica Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Vice President / Environment, Health and Safety
JESSICA JACKSON was appointed vice president - Environment, Health and Safety in February 2020. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Jackson held various positions of increasing responsibility at Murphy Oil Corporation. Ms. Jackson also served as a senior advisor of crisis management at Witt O'Brien's and a regional crisis information lead for the City of Houston. She began her career as the Homeland Security coordinator for the Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management in Texas. Ms. Jackson holds a master's degree in public administration from Walden University and a Bachelor of Science in public policy and political science from the University of Houston.

Joe Hollman


John J. Christmann IV - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the View Board of Directors

Juliet S. Ellis

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Management Development and Compensation Committee
  • Member of Committee

Lamar McKay

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Chair of the Board

LTG Charles Hooper - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of Management Development and Compensation Committee
  • Chairman of Committee

Mark D. Maddox

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President / Administration

Mark J. Bright

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President / Planning

P. Anthony Lannie - Chief Legal Officer, EVP

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President
  • General Counsel

Peter A. Ragauss

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of Committee

Rajesh Sharma - Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Assistant General Counsel
  • Corporate Secretary

Rebecca A. Hoyt - CFO, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Accounting Officer
  • Controller
  • Senior Vice President

Ryan Snapp


Scott Grandt

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President / Corporate Development

Stephen J. Riney - CFO, President

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the View Board of Directors
  • President

Timothy R. Custer - SVP

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President

Tracey K. Henderson - EVP

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President
  • Member of the View Board of Directors

Travis Osborne - CIO, VP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Vice President

W. Brad Eubanks

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President / Production Operations