Chairman, president and CEO of the oilfield services corporation, Lesar opened a second Halliburton headquarters in Dubai in March 2007 amid howls of protests from US senators from both political parties.
However, the move paid off spectacularly, with Halliburton’s stock skyrocketing since the move. A 1978 BSC and MBA graduate from the University of Wisconsin; Lesar was a certified public accountant with a sixteen-year career at Arthur Andersen behind him when he was hired by Halliburton in 1993. There’s no questioning his stature as one of the most powerful figures in the Gulf.
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