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HollyFrontier Corporation is a petroleum refinering and marketing company that supplies gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and other specialty products.

Mr. Shaw is a business leader in the petroleum product refining and pipeline transportation industry, and has a strong record of performance and value creation. He was a key driver in the spectacular growth of Holly Corporation (HOC), with a $290M valuation in 1997 into the HollyFrontier and Holly Energy Partners L.P. (HEP) entity, with a valuation of almost $10 bn in December, 2015 and has served as HEP President from 2012 to 2015.Mr. Shaw joined HOC in 1997 as Corporate Development Director, and served in positions of increased scope and responsibilities. After a four-month absence to serve as President of two affiliated HVAC companies (Standard Supply and Distributing Company and Bartos Industries), he returned to HOC in 2008 as SVP and CFO. Mr. Shaw served in this capacity until the effective time of the merger between HOC and Frontier Oil Corporation (July 2011), and served for one year as SVP, Strategy/Corporate Dev, before being appointed President. During his HOC and HEP tenure, Mr. Shaw negotiated terms for the 2002 Woods Cross Refinery $25 mm acquisition that has since consistently delivered $80-100 mm in annual EBITDA. He was a key team member in HEP’s spin-out, with a 2004 valuation of ~ $300 mm (2015 valuation: $2.5+ bn), and in the 2011 merger of HOC and Frontier Oil that created the most profitable (in $/bbl capacity terms) refiner in NA. He oversaw the development of the economics for the 2011 drop down of heritage Frontier assets to HEP, helping reach approval of the $340 mm transaction, and for developing the economic case for building the UNEV Pipeline allowing Woods Cross Refinery’s expansion. Before, Mr. Shaw was a consultant at McKinsey, serving clients in the energy, technology and transportation industries.He serves on several non-for-profit boards and is a Lecturer at Southern Methodist University.Mr. Shaw has an MBA from Dartmouth and a BS in Mechanical Engineering, Magna cum Laude, from Texas A&M.