David J. Lesar - Citizendia

David J. Lesar, is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. President is a Title leaders of Organizations companies, Trade unions universities, and countries. A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator Halliburton Energy Services ( is a US -based Multinational corporation with operations in more than 70 countries Trained as a Certified Public Accountant, Lesar spent 16 years at Arthur Andersen. Certified Public Accountant ( CPA) is the Statutory title of qualified Accountants in the United States who have passed the Uniform Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche He had spent most of his career at Andersen, where he worked on their Halliburton account. In 1995, Lesar was hired by Halliburton as a new vice president. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995

Three months later he had a new boss, Dick Cheney. Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30 1941 is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States. Within a year of his arrival, Cheney had fired Tommy Knight—a 32-year Kellogg, Brown and Root veteran—and named Lesar the new CEO of KBR, in addition to his duties as CFO of Halliburton. KBR Inc (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) is an American engineering and construction company formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton, based in In May 1997, Cheney elevated Lesar to President and COO. A chief operating officer or chief operations officer ( COO) is a Corporate officer responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the Corporation After Cheney's departure, in 2000, Lesar became CEO of Halliburton. He also serves on the board of directors at Lyondell Chemical and is also a member of the Upstream Committee of the American Petroleum Institute. Lyondell Chemical Company is an American multinational corporation based in Houston, Texas. The American Petroleum Institute, commonly referred to as API is the main U

The movie Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers claims that Lesar has been paid over $42,000,000. Iraq for Sale The War Profiteers is a 2006 documentary about the ongoing Iraq War and the behavior of companies with No-bid contracts 00 by Halliburton, since beginning of Iraq war.

He is also on the board of directors of the American Iranian Council, an organization devoted to the normalization of American-Iranian relations. [1]

Mr. Lesar was born in Madison, Wisconsin and is a 1978 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a bachelor of science and his MBA. He currently resides in Houston, Texas. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. He has however announced that he will be moving to Dubai, UAE.

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