Bayo Ogunlesi Joins Kosmos Energy's Board of Directors.DALLAS -- Kosmos Energy announces today that Bayo Ogunlesi has joined the company's Board of Directors, bringing the number of board members to seven. With more than two decades of legal and international business experience in a broad range of industries, including the oil and gas business, Ogunlesi brings a valuable balance of executive, management and strategic financial leadership to Kosmos. Currently, Ogunlesi is an Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Client Officer of Credit Suisse First Boston Credit Suisse First Boston was originally the trading name of the Financière Crédit Suisse-First Boston, a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture formed in 1978 between the First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse. , based in New York. He is a member of the Executive Board and Management Council of CSFB CSFB Credit Suisse First Boston CSFB Cyclically Shifted Filter Bank , where he also chairs the Chairman's Board. Since joining the firm in 1983, he has advised clients on strategic transactions and financings in a broad range of industries, including oil and natural gas, petrochemicals, power generation, utilities, mining, natural resources, and infrastructure on a global basis. Prior to Joining CSFB, Ogunlesi was an attorney in the corporate practice group of the New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. From 1980-81 he served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court United States Supreme Court: see Supreme Court, United States. . Ogunlesi received his J.D. from the Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. , an MBA from the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. and his B.A. from Oxford. He is a member of the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). Bar Association and was a lecturer at the Harvard Law School, Yale Law School Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars and several legal research centers. and Yale School of Organization and Management, where he taught a course on trans-national investment projects. In addition to Ogunlesi, other Kosmos Board members are James C. Musselman, Howard H. Newman, Prakash A. Melwani, David B. Krieger, David I. Foley, and Chris Wright. About Kosmos Energy: Kosmos Energy is a privately held international oil exploration and production company with a focus in West Africa. Kosmos is led by a seasoned management and technical team with extensive international and West Africa experience, and a proven record of finding and developing significant oil reserves. With the financial backing of international private equity investors Warburg Pincus and Blackstone Capital Partners, the company possesses significant financial and operational capability to generate and participate in multiple high-impact upstream projects. For additional information, visit www.kosmosenergy.com. |
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