American Oil and Gas Reporter - October 2015 - 167

IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products

PEOPLE
more time to strengthening the company's
relationship with governments and nongovernment organizations.
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ROSS
PEEBLES

Following the retirement of President
and Chief Executive Officer Richard
White, Global Geophysical Services
Inc. has selected Ross Peebles to serve
as interim CEO. Before his promotion,
Peebles was senior vice president and
chief operations officer overseeing Global's North American, Latin American
and Eastern Hemisphere operations, as
well as the company's seismic data library, and its exploration, drilling and
production services group.
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EcoVapor Recovery Systems has
added Dan Kelly to its board of directors.
He comes to the company after retiring
from Noble Energy Inc., where his positions included vice president of its
Wattenberg business unit, as well as
vice president of regional planning and
strategy. During his career, which began
in 1982, Kelly worked in 20 basins
throughout the western United States.❒

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has promoted Amanda M. McMillian from
vice president, deputy general counsel,
corporate secretary and chief compliance
officer to senior vice president, general
counsel, corporate secretary and chief
compliance officer. From January 2008
to 2012, she served as vice president,
general counsel and corporate secretary
for Western Gas Holdings, a subsidiary
of Anadarko, and as general partner of
Western Gas Partners LP. She began
her career at the law firm of Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, representing
clients in transactional, corporate governance and securities matters.
Anadarko Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer Robert K. Reeves will
assume the title of executive vice president of law and chief administrative
officer. In his new role, he will devote

Lockhart as director of communications,
a new position. Since 2014, the native
Californian has served as communications
director of Californians for Energy Independence. Her 15-year career also includes senior communications roles for
former California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger, as well as former state
legislators Assemblywomen Connie Conway, Senator Dave Cogdill and Assemblyman Kevin McCarthy.
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THOMAS G.
STRAUSS

Schramm Inc. has named Thomas G.
Strauss its chief financial officer. Strauss
has worked for several midsized and Fortune 25 manufacturing companies. For
the past five years, he has served as CFO
of Arbill Inc., a Philadelphia-based manufacturer and distributor of safety equipment and supplies. There, he developed
and designed revenue and pricing models,
as well as a financial control system to
assist in monitoring and controlling the
company's financial results and forecasts.
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BLUEDORN

GARBER

OBREN
LEKIC

Electric submersible pump specialist
Borets has named Obren Lekic vice
president of sales and business development for the United States. He has 20
years of oil and gas experience. Lekic
joined Borets in 2005 when it was a privately held company. He served as the
deputy general director for business development and marketing, working to
expand the Russian company into the international market. Lekic went on to
serve as vice president of the Eastern
Hemisphere for Borets International FZE.
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The California Independent Petroleum
Association has hired Sabrina Demayo

LUCAS

Babst Calland attorneys Donald C.
Bluedorn, Kevin J. Garber, and Blaine
A. Lucas have been named 2016 Best
Lawyers® Lawyers of the Year in the
Pittsburgh area.
Bluedorn was selected as the 2016
Lawyer of the Year for environmental
law. Additionally, he was listed as one
of the 2016 Best Lawyers in America
for environmental litigation and water
law.
Garber was selected as the Lawyer
of Year for natural resources law, and
likewise was listed for energy law, environmental law, environmental litigation,
and water law.
Lucas was named Lawyer of the Year
for energy law, and also was listed for
land use and zoning law, land use and
zoning litigation, and municipal law. ❒
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