ConocoPhillips Chooses Its CIO

As Merger Looms, ConocoPhillips Names CIO
BARTLESVILLE, Okla.- With their proposed merger moving toward completion, Phillips Petroleum Co. and Conoco announced that Gene L. Batchelder will be senior vice president and chief information officer of the new CononoPhillips.

Batchelder, 54, currently is vice president and CIO for Phillips, a position he has held since 1999. He joined Phillips in 1972 and held several managerial jobs in Phillips' chemicals division and Phillips 66 Co. He was named president of Phillips Driscopipe Inc. in 1990 and became finance manager of Phillips' gas gathering, processing and marketing subsidiary in 1994.

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Phillips shareholders approved the $15.6 billion proposed merger last week.

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