Harold G. Hamm serves as our Chairman of the board of directors and is the founder of Hiland Partners’ predecessor. In addition, Mr. Hamm has served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Continental Resources, Inc., a NYSE publicly traded exploration and production company, since its inception in 1967 and currently serves as Chairman of the board of directors. He also serves as a director of Complete Production Services, Inc., a NYSE publicly traded oil and gas service company. Mr. Hamm is past chairman of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association and served as a founding board member of the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board. He was President of the National Stripper Well Association and founder and Chairman of Save Domestic Oil, Inc. Mr. Hamm recently co-founded the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance to preserve the oil and gas markets for oil and gas produced in the United States.
