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HOUSTON, January 21, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cheniere Energy, Inc. ("Cheniere") (NYSE: LNG) today announced that its Board of Directors ("Board") has appointed W. Benjamin Moreland to serve as a member of the Board, effective January 21, 2025. Mr. Moreland is considered an independent director. Mr. Moreland has been appointed to the Audit and Compensation Committees.
Mr. Moreland is a private investor and retired Chief Executive Officer of Crown Castle Inc., a leading provider of wireless infrastructure in the U.S., where he served in a variety of leadership roles since joining in 1999, including Executive Vice Chairman, President, and Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Mr. Moreland spent 15 years with Chase Manhattan Bank and predecessor banks, primarily in corporate finance and real estate investment banking. Mr. Moreland has served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., an outdoor advertising company, since May 2019. He is a former board member and Chairman of the Board of WIA-The Wireless Infrastructure Association and former member of the Executive Board of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). He also served on the board of directors of Calpine Corporation from 2009 until its privatization in March 2018, and Monogram Residential Trust from 2016 until its privatization in September 2017. Mr. Moreland is also a former member of the executive board of the Greater Houston Partnership and currently serves as a board member of Houston Methodist Hospital. Mr. Moreland is a member of the University of Texas McCombs School of Business Advisory Council and Bauer Board at the University of Houston. Mr. Moreland received a B.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.B.A. from the University of Houston.
"We are pleased to welcome Ben to our Board of Directors today," said G. Andrea Botta, Cheniere’s Chairman of the Board. "Ben’s decades of relevant experience leading large, complex organizations and serving on boards across industries will complement and enhance the perspectives of our Board for the benefit of our stakeholders. We look forward to Ben’s contributions to help support and guide Cheniere into the future."
About Cheniere
Cheniere Energy, Inc. is the leading producer and exporter of liquefied natural gas ("LNG") in the United States, reliably providing a clean, secure, and affordable solution to the growing global need for natural gas. Cheniere is a full-service LNG provider, with capabilities that include gas procurement and transportation, liquefaction, vessel chartering, and LNG delivery. Cheniere has one of the largest liquefaction platforms in the world, consisting of the Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi liquefaction facilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast, with total production capacity of approximately 45 million tonnes per annum ("mtpa") of LNG in operation and an additional 10+ mtpa of expected production capacity under construction. Cheniere is also pursuing liquefaction expansion opportunities and other projects along the LNG value chain. Cheniere is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and has additional offices in London, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.