David Landreth

David L. Landreth served as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of publicly traded CVR Energy (NYSE: CVI).  He was responsible for the crude oil and feedstock supply and product marketing departments, trading and risk management, refinery economic optimization and planning groups, and business development, asset evaluations, and acquisitions.  As an executive, he served as a member of the Disclosure, Risk, Credit, and IT committees.  He also served on the board of Midway Pipeline LLC.

Mr. Landreth has thirty-nine years of refining and petrochemical experience at the refinery and corporate levels.  Thirty-one of those years have been in the commercial segment of the business with a focus on profit generation, asset valuations, mergers and acquisitions, investment analysis, capital utilization, and renewable energy.  He has been involved with three public (NYSE) offerings, refinery and other facility evaluations and acquisitions, company integrations, and various other financial transactions and arrangements. He previously held positions of increasing responsibility at Coastal Corporation, El Paso Merchant Energy, and Holly Corporation.

Mr. Landreth has extensive knowledge in the optimization of refinery and petrochemical plant commercial operations.  He has widespread experience and insights across the hydrocarbon value chain, including logistics and transportation, crude oil and feedstock valuations, processing, distribution, marketing, and trading and is also experienced in financial and commercial acquisition analysis of refining and other assets.  In his 16 years at CVR Energy he was part of the team that transformed a single refining and nitrogen fertilizer plant controlled by private equity into a multi refinery, multi fertilizer plant company in two publicly traded entities.

Mr. Landreth is a graduate of Northwestern Oklahoma State University with a BS in Chemistry.

Mr. Landreth retired in 2021.