The Spring 2008 Management of Technology Lecture Series: An Inside Track to What's New and What's Next

Wednesday, April 16 -- 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Wells Fargo Room, C420 Haas School of Business - MAP

Don Paul, Chief Technology Officer of Chevron
Discussing: Building a Clean Energy Future

Donald L. (Don) Paul is vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron Corp. He is the corporate officer responsible for Chevron's three technology companies: Chevron Energy Technology Co., Chevron Information Technology Co. and Chevron Technology Ventures LLC. In this role, he coordinates their work to accelerate the development and integrated application of technology throughout the company's worldwide business activities. Paul is a member of the Strategy and Planning Committee, Global Issues Committee, Human Resources Committee and Management Committee.

Previously, Paul served as vice president of technology and environmental affairs for Chevron Corp., a position he assumed in 1996. In this role, Paul also was the corporate officer for Chevron's worldwide health, safety and environmental compliance function. This included oversight of Chevron Environmental Management Co., which is responsible for managing Chevron's environmental remediation efforts at sites throughout the United States.

A native of Los Angeles, California, he is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, a master's degree in geology and geophysics, and a Ph.D. in geophysics.

Paul joined the company in 1975 as a research geophysicist with Chevron Oil Field Research Co. in La Habra, California. In his career, Paul has held a variety of management positions of increasing responsibility in both the upstream business and technology. These include president of Chevron Petroleum Technology Co. and president of Chevron Canada Resources, Chevron's Canadian oil and gas exploration and production subsidiary.

Paul is extensively involved in external research and technology management roles with business partners, universities, government agencies and professional technical societies. He is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He also is a member of the external advisory board for the Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is past chairman of the advisory board for the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Paul is a member of the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Science and served on the 1997 Presidential Panel on Federal Energy Research and Development. On June 6, 2002, Paul testified before the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee on the future of advanced energy technologies, such as fuel cell technology. Paul is an advisory board member of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership program of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Paul was born in April 1946.