Management
Executive Officers
- Keith Brackpool
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board - Timothy J. Shaheen
Chief Financial Officer - Scott S. Slater
President
Board of Directors
- Keith Brackpool
- Murray H. Hutchison
- Timothy J. Shaheen
- Scott S. Slater
- Raymond J. Pacini
- Winston Hickox
- Geoffrey Grant
- Stephen E. Courter
Keith Brackpool is a co-founder of the Company and has served as a member of our Board of Directors since September 1986 and as Chief Executive Officer since December 1991. Mr. Brackpool assumed the role of Chairman of the Board of Cadiz in 2001. Mr. Brackpool has extensive expertise in Western water policy. He was appointed by former California Governor Gray Davis to co-chair his Agriculture and Water Transition Task Force and also served on the Governor’s Commission on Building for the 21st Century, a diverse panel that developed long-term policy proposals to meet the state’s future water, housing, technology and transportation needs. In addition to his positions with the Company, Mr. Brackpool currently serves as the Chairman of the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB). Mr. Brackpool was appointed to the CHRB in September 2009 by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and elected Chairman in January 2010. Mr. Brackpool is also a principal of 1334 Partners L.P., a partnership that owns commercial real estate. Previously, Mr. Brackpool served as director and chief executive officer of North American Operations for Albert Fisher Group, a multi-billion dollar food company.
Timothy J. Shaheen is the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), a position he has held since November 2008, and a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Shaheen has served on the Board since March 1999. Mr. Shaheen is also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Managers of Cadiz Real Estate LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. In addition, Mr. Shaheen is a principal of Difinity Capital Partners LLP, a private investment partnership. From September 1996 to April 2005, Mr. Shaheen served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Sun World International, a major agricultural company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Shaheen worked with the accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP for seven years; he is a certified public accountant. In addition to these positions, Mr. Shaheen has also served as a Governor appointee to the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board from 1999 through 2005 and as Chairman of the Food Security Task Force for the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association from 2001 through 2003.
Scott S. Slater is the Company’s President and General Counsel. Mr. Slater has served as General Counsel since November 2008 and President since April 2011. Mr. Slater was appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors in February 2012. Mr. Slater is an accomplished negotiator and litigator and, in addition to his role with the Company, is also a partner in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, the nation’s leading water practice firm. For 27 years, Mr. Slater’s practice has been limited to litigation and the negotiation of agreements related to the acquisition, distribution, and treatment of water. He has served as lead negotiator on a number of important water transactions, including the negotiation of the largest conservation-based water transfer in U.S. history on behalf of the San Diego County Water Authority. Mr. Slater is also the author of California Water Law and Policy, the state’s leading treatise on the subject, and has taught water law and policy courses at University of California, Santa Barbara, Pepperdine University, and the University of Western Australia, among others.
Murray H. Hutchison was appointed a director of the Company in June 1997. Mr. Hutchison is currently a lead director on the board of Jack in the Box, Inc., a publicly traded fast food restaurant chain; and a director on the board of Cardium Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded medical technology company. Additionally, Mr. Hutchison serves as Chairman of the Huntington Hotel Corporation, which owns office buildings and a hotel property, and also as a director on the boards of several other non-publicly traded U.S. companies. Previously, Mr. Hutchison also served as Chairman of the Board of Texas Eastern Product Pipelines Company (TEPPCO), a publicly traded company operating in refined petroleum products, liquefied petroleum gases and petrochemical transportation and storage, prior to its acquisition by Enterprise Products Partners L.P. in October 2009. From 1976 until he retired in 1996, Mr. Hutchison served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of International Technology Corporation (ITC), a publicly traded diversified environmental management company.
Raymond J. Pacini was appointed a director of Cadiz in June 2005. From 1998 to March 2011, Mr. Pacini served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of California Coastal Communities, Inc. , a residential land development and homebuilding company operating in Southern California that was formerly publicly traded publicly traded. From June 1990 until May 1998, Mr. Pacini was the Chief Financial Officer California Coastal Communities. Mr. Pacini began his career as a certified public accountant with the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP).
Winston Hickox was appointed a director of the Company in October 2006. Mr. Hickox is currently a partner at California Strategies, a public policy consulting firm. From 2004 – 2006, Mr. Hickox served as Senior Portfolio Manager with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), designing a series of environmentally- oriented investment initiatives for the fund’s $211 billion investment portfolio. Prior to CalPers, from 1999 – 2003, Mr. Hickox served as Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and a member of the Governor’s cabinet. Mr. Hickox’ environmental policy experience also includes membership on the board of the California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV), including a four-year term as Board President (1990 - 1994); and two years on the boards of Audubon California and Sustainable Conservation (2004 – 2006). Additionally, Mr. Hickox is currently serving as a member of the board of the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System, as is also serving on the boards of Thomas Properties Group, a publicly traded full service real estate investment firm, and GRIDiant Corporation, a privately held corporation in the energy technology sector. Earlier in his professional career, Mr. Hickox was a partner and Managing Director with LaSalle Advisors, Ltd., a major force in the world’s real estate capital markets, and a Managing Director with Alex Brown Kleinwort Benson Realty Advisors Corp., where he served as head of the firm’s Portfolio Management Group.
Geoffrey Grant was appointed a director of the Company in January 2007. Mr. Grant is presently a Managing Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of Grant Capital Partner, a global macro hedge fund management firm founded in 2008. Previously, Mr. Grant was with Peloton Partners LLP, a global asset management firm he co-founded in 2005. Mr. Grant’s career in financial markets spans 27 years beginning at Morgan Stanley in 1982 in foreign exchange options and currency derivatives, then with Goldman Sachs for 15 years from 1989 to 2004 where he ultimately served as Head of Global Foreign Exchange and Co-head of the Proprietary Trading Group in London.
Stephen E. Courter was appointed a director of the Company in October 2008. Mr. Courter is currently on the faculty of the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin and also serves as a director of Pointserve, an information technology firm. Mr. Courter has over 20 years of experience in management positions in the technology/telecommunications industry, serving most recently as CEO of Broadwing Communications from 2006 to 2007 and CEO of NEON Communications from 2000 to 2006. Mr. Courter began his career as a captain in the U.S. Army and has also held various executive positions, both in the U.S. and Europe, at several major corporations including KPMG, IBM and Sprint.