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Edfred L. Shannon,
Jr.
Edfred L. Shannon, Jr. is the retired Chairman
of the Board of Santa Fe International Corp., a contract offshore
and onshore drilling contractor now merged with Global Marine
Corp. and listed on the NYSE as Global-Santa Fe, headquartered
in Houston, Texas.
Mr. Shannon graduated from the University
of California, Berkeley, with a B.S. degree in Petroleum Engineering.
He was Chief Executive Officer of Santa Fe from 1962 until
his retirement in June 1991. In 1981 Mr. Shannon negotiated
a friendly cash merger with Kuwait Petroleum Corp., an agency
of the government of Kuwait for over 2-1/2 billion dollars.
Santa Fe consequently became a wholly owned subsidiary of
Kuwait Petroleum, a government company.
In 1997 K.P.C. did an I.P.O. of approximately
45% of the companies’ shares and listed the shares once
again on the N.Y.S.E.
Mr. Shannon is 76 years old and is a director
of the Trust Company of the West and various other charitable
foundations and institutions in the Los Angeles area.
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Andy
Ball
Edfred
L. Shannon, Jr.
Stath Karras
David A. Parker
Timothy J. Lutz
Santa
Fe Partner’s Advisory Board has been
chosen based on their ability to provide
valuable guidance and direction with regard
to capital raising, development, construction,
leasing, lending,banking, tax, finance and
international issues for Santa Fe’s
United States and overseas investors, partners
and clients.
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