Biography
E. L. (Gene) Batchelder is senior vice president, services, and chief information officer for ConocoPhillips.
Batchelder managed information technology resources both inside and outside of Phillips Petroleum Company from 1999 to 2002, after serving as finance manager of GPM Gas Co. since 1994.
Batchelder joined Phillips in 1972 after working for Ford Motor Company. He served as general sales manager of wholesale marketing for Phillips 66 Company and, in 1990, was named president of Phillips Driscopipe, Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Company. Before that, he was manager of communications networks and computer services for Phillips in 1989, and manager of operations analysis and control and management information systems since 1985.
Born in 1947 in Enid, Okla., Batchelder grew up in Bartlesville. He graduated in 1969 from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater with a bachelor's degree in accounting and is a certified public accountant. He served six years in the U.S. Army Reserves.