John A. Hill

John A. Hill， Vice Chairman and Managing Director， has been with the firm since its founding in 1983. He serves as a senior advisor on investments， investment origination， investor relations and goverment policy liason. Prior to acquiring First Reserve with Mr. Macaulay in 1983， Mr. Hill was a co-founder of Meridien Capital Company， a private equity buyout firm. From 1976 to 1981， he served as Senior Vice-President of F. Eberstadt & Co.， Inc.， an investment banking， research and institutional brokerage firm， as President and Chief Executive Officer of Eberstadt Asset Management and as founding Chairman of the Board of the Eberstadt Energy Fund. Prior to 1976， Mr. Hill spent seven years in the U.S. Federal Government as Deputy Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget and subsequently as Deputy Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration during the Ford Administration. Mr. Hill is currently the Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of both Putnam Mutual Funds and Sarah Lawrence College as well as serving as lead Director of the Board of Directors of Devon Energy Corporation. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Yale Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. Mr. Hill holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Economics from Southern Methodist University and an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from Bethel College.