Alan J. Hirshberg was appointed to Noble’s Board of Directors in February 2021.
Mr. Hirshberg currently owns VOR Advisors, Inc., a consulting firm. Prior to that he served as a Senior Advisor at Blackstone Management Partners, which provides asset management services, from January 2019 to January 2022. He joined ConocoPhillips, an oil and gas company, in 2010 as its Senior Vice President, Planning and Strategy, and retired in January 2019 as its Executive Vice President, Production, Drilling and Projects, a position he held since April 2016. In this role, he had responsibility for ConocoPhillips’ worldwide operations, as well as supply chain, aviation, marine, major projects, drilling and engineering functions. Prior to joining ConocoPhillips, Mr. Hirshberg worked at Exxon and ExxonMobil for 27 years, serving in various senior leadership positions in upstream research, production operations, major projects and strategic planning. His last role at ExxonMobil was Vice President of Worldwide Deepwater and Africa Projects. Mr. Hirshberg was formerly on the board of McDermott International, Inc. (private). Mr. Hirshberg was formerly on the board of Sitio Royalties (f/k/a Falcon Minerals Corporation (public)).
Mr. Hirshberg received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University.