Raymond Plank

Raymond Plank
Chairman of Apache Corporation

Raymond Plank (May 29, 1922 – November 8, 2018) was the founder and chairman of Apache Corporation. Under Plank’s leadership, Apache expanded its oil and gas operations internationally from a $250,000 capitalization to a market capitalization of over $30 billion. Plank invented the Master Limited Partnership and exposed corruption at Enron and within the energy merchant trading sector.