ITEM 10.DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The information required by this Item is incorporated herein by reference from the information under the captions “PROPOSAL NO. 1-ELECTION OF DIRECTORS-Biographies of Nominees,” “BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND COMPENSATION INFORMATION and “DELINQUENT SECTION 16 REPORTS” in the Company's Proxy Statement for the annual meeting of shareholders to be held on May 6, 2021 (the “Proxy Statement”).
Information About Our Executive Officers
The following is a list, as of February 1, 2021, of CNX executive officers, their ages and their positions and offices held with CNX.
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Nicholas J. DeIuliis
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President and Chief Executive Officer
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Donald W. Rush
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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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Chad A. Griffith
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Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
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Olayemi Akinkugbe
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Executive Vice President and Chief Excellence Officer
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Alexander Reyes
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Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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Nicholas J. DeIuliis has served as a Director and the Chief Executive Officer of CNX Resources Corporation since May 7, 2014. He was appointed President of the Company on February 23, 2011. Including the period prior to the separation of CONSOL Energy Inc. into two separate companies, Mr. DeIuliis has more than 30 years of experience with the Company and in that time has held the positions of President and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President - Strategic Planning, and earlier in his career various engineering positions. He was a Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of CNX Gas Corporation from its creation in 2005 through 2009. Mr. DeIuliis is a registered engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a member of the Pennsylvania bar.
Donald W. Rush has served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CNX Resources Corporation since August 2, 2017. In this role, he is responsible for development and execution of the Company's financial policies and strategy, including risk management, budgeting and planning, and compliance and reporting. Mr. Rush held the same position at CONSOL Energy Inc. prior to its separation into two separate companies. He previously served as Vice President of Energy Marketing where he oversaw the Company's commercial functions, including mergers and acquisitions, gas marketing and transportation, in addition to holding other strategy and planning, business development and engineering positions during his 13 years with the Company. He successfully guided the Company through every significant transaction during its transition into a pure play natural gas exploration and production company. Mr. Rush holds a B.S in civil engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.B.A from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
Chad A. Griffith has served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of CNX Resources Corporation since July 30, 2019. In this role, he is responsible for daily management of the Company's asset base and safe and effective execution of its operational plan. Before being appointed to his current position, Mr. Griffith served as Vice President, Commercial and Vice President of Marketing of CNX from January 2018 to July 2019 and prior to that Mr. Griffith served as the Director of Marketing of CNX from November 2015 to January 2018. He was the Director of Diversified Business Units at CNX from April 2014 to November 2015. Mr. Griffith and holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Frostburg State University, a law degree from West Virginia University College of Law, and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. Mr. Griffith is a licensed attorney in Maryland and licensed, but inactive, in West Virginia.
Olayemi Akinkugbe has served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Excellence Officer of CNX Resources Corporation since July 30, 2019. As the Chief Excellence Officer of CNX, Mr. Akinkugbe oversees all operational and corporate support functions for the company. In this role, he is responsible for providing services to facilitate safe, environmentally compliant and efficient operational execution, rigorous corporate spend management, and overall daily administration of the enterprise. Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Akinkugbe served as Director Virginia Operations at CNX, a
role he assumed in July 2018. Mr. Akinkugbe served as Director Business Development from September 2017 through July 2018, General Manager - Planning and Petroleum Reserves from February 2014 through September 2017, and served in various other positions, including with the Engineering Department, throughout his tenure at CNX, which started in 2003. Mr. Akinkugbe holds an undergraduate degree in mineral engineering, a master’s degree in engineering with a specialty in rock mechanics from West Virginia University, and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
Alexander Reyes has served as the Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of CNX Resources Corporation since December 21, 2020. Mr. Reyes has a breadth of corporate legal and business expertise in the energy industry. He first joined CNX in 2006, and spent 14 years with the company, with responsibilities ranging from legal management of major transactions to leading the Company’s Land department. Before rejoining CNX to become General Counsel, for much of 2020 Alex served as Chair of the Corporate Practice Group of Pittsburgh-based Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl, LLC. He began his career at Buchanan Ingersoll PC where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities, financings, and corporate governance. He is a graduate of the Duquesne University School of Law where he served as an editor of The Duquesne Law Review. Mr. Reyes holds a Bachelors of Business Administration degree in finance from The George Washington University.
CNX has a written Code of Employee Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to CNX's Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer), Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer), Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) and others. The Code of Employee Business Conduct and Ethics is available on CNX's website at www.cnx.com. Any amendments to, or waivers from, a provision of our Code of Employee Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to our Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer and that relates to any element enumerated in paragraph (b) of Item 406 of Regulation S-K shall be disclosed by posting such information on our website at www.cnx.com.
By certification dated May 27, 2020, CNX's Chief Executive Officer certified to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that he was not aware of any violation by the Company of the NYSE corporate governance listing standards. In addition, the required Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Section 302 certifications regarding the quality of our public disclosures were filed by CNX Resources as exhibits to this Form 10-K.
