James L. Rainey serves as a board director and chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and as a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. Rainey was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Farmland Industries, Inc., from 1986 to 1991. At the time of his retirement, Farmland was the largest agricultural supply cooperative in the United States and had a strong asset base in petroleum refining, basic and upgraded fertilizer production and distribution, mixed livestock feed production and distribution, pork and beef processing and marketing, information systems, international trading, and financial services. Previously, Mr. Rainey served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp.,a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kerr-McGee Corp., from 1975 to 1986; and as a Senior Vice President of the parent company from 1984 to 1986. Kerr-McGee Corp., now a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, was an energy company with operations in petroleum exploration and production, refining, coal and chemicals. Mr. Rainey spent a total of 22 years with the company. |