John Hanten

Bio

John Hanten has more than 30 years of experience in the petroleum industry, primarily in upstream petroleum technology. Initially joining Chevron in 1978 as a research geophysicist, he has subsequently held varied supervisory and management positions of increasing responsibility in application development, technical services management, strategic planning, operational management and e-business development. In 1995, as strategic planning manager for Chevron Petroleum Technology Company, Hanten pioneered the internal use of web technology to streamline communications and other business processes. Most recently he was a senior consultant with Chevron e-Business Development Company working on new venture startups and internal Web initiatives. Hanten has been active in industry standards and e-business initiatives and served as an elected board member of the Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation from 1999 to 2001 and chairman during 1999 and 2000. He participates as a board observer for Artificial Muscle, Axxon, BlueArc, Deepflex, Metacarta, OpenSpirit, Radiance Technologies, Schemalogic, SpectraSensors and Tradecapture. Hanten earned a Bachelor of Arts in earth science from the University of Minnesota, a Master of Science in geophysics from Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration from St. Mary's College.