Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 2, 2003

Philip Ackerman – National Fuel Gas Company (nfg)

PHILIP C. ACKERMAN is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of National Fuel Gas Company. Mr. Ackerman joined the company in 1968. He is a 1965 graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. He is also a 1968 graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he earned an LLB degree. Mr. Ackerman is a Director of the American Gas Association, the Gas Technology Institute and The Business Council of New York State, Inc. In addition, Mr. Ackerman is Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences and also serves on the Regional Advisory Board of J.P. Morgan Chase. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with some background on National Fuel Gas

Company?

Mr. Ackerman: National Fuel Gas Company, which is headquartered

in Buffalo, New York, celebrated its 100th year of