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E. L. (Gene) Batchelder is senior vice president, services, and chief information officer of ConocoPhillips.
Batchelder joined Phillips Petroleum Company in 1972. In 1978, he was promoted to manager of finance and administration for Chemicals Latin America division based in Houston. He advanced to project analysis director in 1980, returning to Bartlesville. In 1981, he was division controller in Petrochemicals, moving in 1985 to manager of
operations analysis and control and management information systems for the Phillips 66 Company. In 1989, he was named manager of communications networks and computer services for Phillips. After serving as general sales manager of wholesale marketing for Phillips 66 Company in 1990, he was named president of Phillips Driscopipe, Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips. In 1994, he became finance manager of GPM Gas Co., Phillips’ Houston-based gas gathering and processing subsidiary. He served as vice president and chief information officer for Phillips from 1999 to 2002, when he was named to his current position.
Born in 1947, in Enid, Okla., Batchelder grew up in Bartlesville. He graduated in 1969 from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater with a bachelor's degree in accounting and is a certified public accountant. | 