Chevron Nigeria Limited has appointed a new Chairman and Managing Director, Jim Swartz.
According to a statement on Wednesday by the firm’s General Manager for Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Esimaje Brikinn, Swartz was appointed “as the Chairman and Managing Director of Chevron Nigeria/Mid-Africa Business Unit, effective 1st April 2024″.
Until his appointment, Swartz was the Vice President, Capital Projects based in Houston, United States of America.
“He brings a wealth of experience in the upstream business and a proven ability to build effective partnerships with stakeholders”, the statement said.
A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he received a Bachelor of Science in Geology, Swartz also obtained a Master of Science in Geology from the University of Oklahoma.
He was said to have joined Chevron in 1990 as a Geologist in Louisiana and has since held positions of increasing responsibility in Angola and the United States.
Swartz replaces Richard (Rick) Kennedy, “who has elected to retire after almost 40 years of service to the company”.
