Paul K. Siegele
Vice President, Strategic Planning
Paul K. Siegele is vice president of Strategic Planning for Chevron Corporation. He is responsible for advising senior corporate executives in setting strategic direction for the company, allocating capital and other resources, and determining operating-unit performance measures and targets.
Siegele was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1959. He earned a bachelor of science degree in geology from California Lutheran University in 1980 and a master of science degree in geology from California State University at Northridge in 1990.
Siegele began his career with Texaco in 1980 as a petroleum geologist in the Los Angeles operations division. He has held numerous technical and managerial positions as well as a variety of exploration assignments in North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia. In 1995, he was appointed upstream coordinator of Texaco's Corporate Planning and Economics Group located in Harrison, New York. In 1997, he was named regional manager of Texaco International’s Exploration Division, and later, regional manager of the Exploration and New Ventures Division located in Bellaire, Texas. Upon the merger of Chevron and Texaco in 2001, he was appointed exploration manager of Chevron North America Exploration and Production Co., based in New Orleans. He was named vice president of Deepwater Exploration and Projects in 2005, in which role he managed the company's industry-leading deepwater exploration initiatives in the Gulf of Mexico.
He assumed his current position January 1, 2008.
Siegele is a member of the Geological Society of America and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Updated: January 2008