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HALLIBURTON
EXXONMOBIL
MILLICENT CHANCELLOR, CPA
DELESICCA BROOKS
Senior Director, Finance Operations
Plant Manager, ExxonMobil Chemicals BS–Accounting, Florida A&M University
- Films Division MBA, Duke University
BS–Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M
University
Millicent Chancellor directs all ac-
MBA, University of Houston tivities for the global finance and ac-
The Texas Alliance of Minorities in En-
counting organization for Halliburton
gineering K-12 program (http://www.
operations. Halliburton, a $15 billion
engr.utexas.edu/tame/) planted a seed
firm, is one of the largest providers of
in Delesicca Brooks. After high school,
products and services to the energy
she went on to earn a ChemE degree.
industry. Her team has more than 800
But if the new college grad was Bringing Value
employees working on almost every
unsure whether she was in the right
continent.
FLUOR CORPORATION
field, Mobil Chemical convinced her.
NAGU VANGURY
Chancellor worked in investor rela-
She found chemical engineers in mar-
tions when Halliburton was focused
Project Director
keting, manufacturing, and technology.
on negotiating a $4 billion asbestos
BS–Electrical Engineering, University of
“They ran the company,“ she says.
litigation settlement. She maintained
Houston
That motivated her to earn an MBA. MBA, Rice University
dialogue with Wall Street and helped
develop a communications strategy
After Exxon and Mobil merged,
In her newest post, Nagu Vangury
for the settlement.
Brooks held several posts that led
leads the Houston-based team of an
to her role as plant manager. “Each
oil and gas project for a South African
The experience motivated Chancellor
day you provide safe and reliable op-
company. “Our client is increasing its
to broaden her skills. So she earned
erations, you are contributing to the
synthetic fuels volume aiming to im-
an MBA at Duke University’s Fuqua
company’s role to deliver product,
prove its environmental footprint and
School of Business. In 2003, when
[uphold its] reputation and increase
energy efficiencies,” she explains.
Halliburton reorganized its energy
value,“ she says.
services business into four divisions,
Fluor has built many such projects,
she became director of finance for
Brooks, 44, visits female engineering
and the leading engineering and
one of them. She was also on the
students annually. “When I attended
project management firm is among
executive management team respon-
college there weren’t many,” she
the world’s safest contractors. “That
sible for running a division with over
says. “Now more [women] pursue
is what our clients expect from us,”
$5 billion in revenues.
math and science.”
Vangury says. “That is how we bring
value.”
To develop next generation leaders,
Brooks is a volunteer with the
Chancellor notes the technology and
ExxonMobil’s Science Ambassador
Vangury started as a control systems
software grants as well as money
Program and its science camp. She
engineer, and later worked in market-
that Halliburton gives to colleges and
is also on the board of her children’s
ing and project management. She
universities. Last year, Halliburton
school and the Family Services of
notes that among Fluor’s initiatives
and its employees donated $352 mil-
Greater Houston. When she’s not
is a “buddy system,” which pairs
lion of in-kind services and money to
with her family or working, she does
new hires with employees of simi-
charities and community endeavors.
three-mile runs during the week and
lar interests; as well as Mentoring
six miles on the weekend.
Circles, which won the 2006 Freedom
to Compete Award given by the US
Equal Employment Opportunity Com-
mission.
She is also keen on graduates from
a program called XLR8. It focuses on
motivating, training, and accelerating
new hires’ development.
Vangury sees tremendous opportuni-
ties for growth in engineering. “Hous-
ton was very much a boomtown in
the 70s,” she says. “The oil and gas
industry is seeing a surge again.”
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