Enrique Hernandez
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Enrique Hernandez, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc.
Age 65
Director since December 2008
Independent: Yes
Chevron Committees: Management Compensation; Public Policy and Sustainability (Chair)
Current Public Company Directorships: McDonald's Corporation
Mr. Hernandez has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc. (“Inter-Con”), a global provider of security and facility support services to governments, utilities, and industrial customers, since 1986. He was President of Inter-Con from 1986 until 2018 and was previously Executive Vice President and Assistant General Counsel from 1984 until 1986. He was an associate of the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison from 1980 until 1984.
Prior Public Company Directorships (within last five years): Nordstrom, Inc.; Wells Fargo & Company
Other Directorships and Memberships: Catalyst; Harvard College Visiting Committee; Harvard University Resources Committee; John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation; Ronald McDonald House Charities
Skills and Qualifications
Business Leadership / Operations: More than three decades as Chairman and CEO of Inter-Con. Co-founder of Interspan Communications, a television broadcasting company. Chairman of the Board of McDonald’s Corporation.
Finance: More than three decades of financial responsibility and experience at Inter-Con. Chaired the Audit Committee at McDonald’s Corporation. Former Chair of the Finance Committee and the Risk Committee at Wells Fargo & Company. Former Audit Committee member at Great Western Financial Corporation, Nordstrom, Inc., Washington Mutual, Inc., and Wells Fargo & Company.
Global Business / International Affairs: CEO of a company that conducts business worldwide. Current and former director of companies with international operations.
Government / Regulatory / Public Policy: Trustee of the John Randolph Haynes Foundation, which has funded hundreds of important urban studies in education, transportation, local government elections, public safety, and other public issues. Former appointee and Commissioner and President of the Los Angeles Police Commission. Served on the U.S. National Infrastructure Advisory Committee.
Legal: Served as Executive Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Inter-Con. Former litigation associate of the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. Law degree from Harvard Law School.
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The House Oversight and Reform Committee is extending a new deadline for a group of five Big Oil board members to testify as part of its investigation of fossil fuel misinformation.
In letters sent Wednesday, the committee said board members from Exxon Mobil Corp., BP PLC, and Chevron Corp. declined to appear at a planned hearing on Feb. 8. Jane Holl Lute, a member of Shell’s board of directors, said she would be willing to testify but “declined to participate on that date after other invited board members refused to appear,” according to the committee.
The panel will reschedule the hearing for March 8, wrote full committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Environment Subcommittee Chair Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). The full committee will hold a separate hearing with climate science experts on the original Feb. 8 date.
“The Big Oil companies should consider the March hearing their last chance to cooperate,” Maloney said in a statement. “If their board members refuse to appear, they should expect further action from this Committee.”
The Oversight Committee first called the oil company board members to testify in another round of letters late last month. In addition to Lute, the other invitees are Alexander Karsner and Susan Avery of Exxon, Melody Meyer of BP, and Enrique Hernandez of Chevron.
Some of the companies and board members indicated that they are indeed willing to participate.
Brad Wine, counsel for Exxon’s Karsner, said that his client informed the committee that he will “cooperate with their investigation and will testify voluntarily but that he was unavailable to participate in a hearing on Feb. 8,” due to “family commitments.”
The hearings are part of a larger investigation into the industry’s past science denial and obstruction of climate policy, a probe that has been on the environmental community’s wishlist for years.
Top executives from all four companies testified before the committee in October, alongside officials from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute (E&E Daily, Oct. 29, 2021). Maloney subpoenaed all six organizations for documents a few days later.
This week’s letters asked the companies to turn over all relevant documents by the March 8 hearing, or face “further action by the Committee.”
The panel’s Democrats are looking to question board members on the companies’ various net-zero emissions pledges and whether they go far enough.
The companies pushed back on the idea that their board members are refusing to cooperate with the committee. Rather, they said it’s a scheduling issue.
The October hearing with chief executives was formally requested more than a month in advance, whereas board members were given less than three weeks after the initial round of letters from the committee on Jan. 20.
“Our chairman and CEO voluntarily appeared at an earlier hearing, and the committee was informed that Dr. Avery and Mr. Karsner would also appear voluntarily when both are available,” Exxon spokesman Casey Norton said in an email. “We have been in regular communication with the committee since last summer and have provided staff with hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, including board materials and internal communications.”
A BP spokesperson said of its board member: “we understand that Melody is working with the committee on a mutually agreeable time to testify.” A Shell spokesperson said the company “will continue to cooperate with the committee.”
A Chevron spokesperson did not return a request for comment. Lawyers for Avery and Meyer did not respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for Hernandez declined to comment.
Khanna said he hopes the eventual testimony will be revealing because the board members are involved in sustainability efforts at their respective companies.
Avery, for instance, is a climate scientist, while Karsner joined Exxon’s board last year as part of a bid by activist firm Engine No. 1 to overhaul the company’s climate strategy.
“Their answers will provide a behind the scenes look at the internal discussions occurring at these companies,” Khanna said in a statement. “If the members do not provide them voluntarily, all options are on the table.”
This story also appears in Climatewire and Energywire.
February 2, 2022
Mr. Enrique Hernandez c/o Reginald J. Brown Kirkland & Ellis LLP
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004
Dear Mr. Hernandez: On January 20, 2022, we invited you to testify before the Oversight Committee at a February 8 hearing to examine whether oil and gas companies’ climate pledges are adequate to reduce emissions and avert a looming climate disaster. You declined to participate on the date requested. The Committee plans to move forward with our hearing on February 8, to learn the truth about the fossil fuel industry’s climate pledges. We will hear from witnesses who have studied these pledges and will explain whether they will truly reduce global warming—or instead are simply another effort by oil and gas companies to deceive the public and “greenwash” the industry’s destructive impact on our planet. In light of your role on the board of directors of Chevron, a major source of carbon emissions, the Committee continues to require your testimony on this topic. As we previously explained, boards of directors of fossil fuel companies have a key role to play in holding management accountable for meaningful actions to reduce emissions.
Enrique was Director at Nordstrom, and Director at Washington Mutual Bank. Enrique Hernandez joined McDonald's in 2008.
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Enrique Hernandez has a bachelor's degree in Government and Economics from Harvard College in 1977 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard University in 1980.
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Mr. Alexander A. Karsner c/o Alex Iftimie Morrison & Foerster
425 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105
Dear Mr. Karsner: On January 20, 2022, we invited you to testify before the Oversight Committee at a February 8 hearing to examine whether oil and gas companies’ climate pledges are adequate to reduce emissions and avert a looming climate disaster. You declined to participate on the date requested. The Committee plans to move forward with our hearing on February 8, to learn the truth about the fossil fuel industry’s climate pledges. We will hear from witnesses who have studied these pledges and will explain whether they will truly reduce global warming—or instead are simply another effort by oil and gas companies to deceive the public and “greenwash” the industry’s destructive impact on our planet. In light of your role on the board of directors of Exxon, a major source of carbon emissions, the Committee continues to require your testimony on this topic. As we previously explained, boards of directors of fossil fuel companies have a key role to play in holding management accountable for meaningful actions to reduce emissions.
As an accommodation to you, we plan to divide this hearing into two panels on different
dates, and we will reschedule your testimony for March 8, 2022. This will be your last
opportunity to appear voluntarily before the Committee. Please confirm by February 7 that you
will comply with this request.
Because the Committee is postponing your testimony for four weeks, we expect that
Exxon will complete production of all records responsive to our November 2, 2021, subpoena in
advance of your testimony. This subpoena was issued four months ago, and the remaining
documents are long overdue.
Among other documents, Exxon must produce in full and without redaction all
responsive board materials, including those previously placed inside a restrictive electronic
reading room without the Committee’s consent. Failure to produce these documents in advance