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Chairman and chief executive officer, Valero Energy Corporation

Nationality: American.

Born: 1936, in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Education: St. Mary's University of San Antonio, Texas, BBA, 1960.

Family: Married Louree Bruce; children: five.

Career: Price Waterhouse, 1960–?, accountant; Exxon, ?–1963, auditor; Coastal State Gas Corporation, 1963–1968, indenture administrator; 1968–1973, senior vice president of finance; LoVaca Gathering Company, 1973–1980, CEO and vice president;...