|
Joseph W. Craft III has been President Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our board of directors since November 2005 and has majority ownership of ARLP's managing general partner. Mr. Craft owns indirectly a majority of the outstanding interest in ARLP's special general partner. Mr. Craft has been President Chief Executive Officer and a Director of ARLP's managing general partner since August 1999. Previously Mr. Craft served as President of MAPCO Coal Inc. since 1986. During that period he also was Senior Vice President of MAPCO Inc. and had been previously that company's General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer. Before joining MAPCO Mr. Craft was an attorney at Falcon Coal Corporation and Diamond Shamrock Coal Corporation. He is past Chairman of the National Coal Council a Board and Executive Committee Member of the National Mining Association a Director of the Center for Energy and Economic Development and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Tulsa. Mr. Craft holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Kentucky. Mr. Craft also is a graduate of the Senior Executive Program of the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | 