Kelcy Warren is a notable American businessman who has been the Chairman and CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., and Chief Executive Officer at Sunoco Logistics Partners, L.P., since 2013.
He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on September 2, 1949. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in accounting in 1971. Then he went to work for Wirtz Corporation the same year, where he completed his CPA exam two years later.
Warren held senior executive positions at Wirtz Corporation and its related companies in the 1970s and 1980s, including Senior Vice President and Treasurer. He served as Chief Financial Officer from 1989 to 1992 before being handpicked by the then-CEO of Wirtz Corporation, Dennis W. Warlick, to become its President in 1993. Three years later, Mr. Warlick became Chairman, CEO, and President of Wirtz Corporation.
In 2001, after success at Wirtz Corporation, he became CEO of Sunoco Logistics Partners, L.P. This company was created by Sunoco Inc. to become a direct competitor with Wirtz Corporation in the petroleum products and natural gas distribution business. The company was then renamed just Sunoco Logistics Partners, L.P., and changed its name to Energy Transfer Partners on November 1, 2012.
Kelcy Warren has served on the board of directors of several companies, including Mariner East, Inc. (formerly known as West Corporation) and Seaway Trails Pipeline Company LLC (formerly known as Heartland Partners). He also serves as a member-at-large on the board of Trustees at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to this, he is a director of XTO Energy Inc. and has served as a member of the board of trustees at Georgetown College since 1981.
He is married to the former Mary Lou Headington and has three children. Mr. Warren currently resides in Dallas, Texas.
Thornton & Ross Inc. was a Tulsa-based petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company formed in 1967 by Kelcy Warren and his future father-in-law, Bob Livingston, and W. Ben Ross. His father-in-law, Bob Livingston, made a fortune selling redwood lumber to the lumber industry while Kelcy Warren joined him in drilling oil wells. Refer to this article for related information.
More about Warren on https://www.utsystem.edu/board-of-regents/current-regents/kelcy-l-warren