Patricia E. Yarrington, Chevron Corporation

Patricia E. (Pat) Yarrington is vice president and chief financial officer of Chevron, a position she has held since 2009. She is responsible for comptroller, tax, treasury, audit and investor relations activities corporatewide.

Previously Yarrington served as corporate vice president and treasurer from 2007 to 2009 and was responsible for the company's financing strategies and cash management activities. Prior positions include: 2002, corporate vice president, policy, government and public affairs; 2000, corporate vice president, strategic planning; 1998, president, Chevron Canada Ltd.; 1997, comptroller, Chevron Products Co.; 1995, manager, credit card enterprises, marketing, Chevron Products Co.; 1986, manager, investor relations.

Yarrington is chairman of the San Francisco Federal Reserve's board of directors.

Yarrington was born in 1956 in Orange, N.J. She began her career with Chevron in 1980 as a financial analyst. Yarrington earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1977 from Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., and a master's degree in business administration in 1979 from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.