Carl C. Icahn has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Icahn Enterprises L.P., a diversified holding company engaged in a variety of businesses, including investment, automotive, energy, food packaging, metals, real estate and home fashion. Since 2007, through his position as Chief Executive Officer of Icahn Capital LP, a wholly owned subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises L.P., and certain related entities, Mr. Icahn’s principal occupation has been managing private investment funds, including Icahn Partners LP and Icahn Partners Master Fund LP. Since 1990, Mr. Icahn has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Starfire Holding Corporation, a privately-held holding company, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of various subsidiaries of Starfire, since 1984. Mr. Icahn was previously: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tropicana Entertainment Inc., a company that is primarily engaged in the business of owning and operating casinos and resorts, from 2010 until 2018; Chairman of the Board of Directors of CVR Refining, LP, an independent downstream energy limited partnership, from 2013 to 2018; Chairman of the Board of Directors of CVR Energy, Inc., a diversified holding company primarily engaged in the petroleum refining and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing industries, from 2012 to 2018; President and a member of the Executive Committee of XO Holdings, a competitive provider of telecom services, from 2011 to 2017, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of its predecessors from 2003 to 2011; director of Federal-Mogul Holdings LLC (formerly known as Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation), a supplier of automotive powertrain and safety components, from 2007 to 2015, and the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Federal-Mogul from 2008 to 2015; Chairman of the Board of Directors of American Railcar Industries, Inc., a railcar manufacturing company, from 1994 to 2014; a director of American Railcar Leasing LLC, a lessor and seller of specialized railroad tank and covered hopper railcars, from 2004 to 2013; a director of WestPoint Home LLC, a home textiles manufacturer, from 2005 to 2011; and a director of Cadus Corporation, a company engaged in the acquisition of real estate for renovation or construction and resale, from 1993 to 2010. Mr. Icahn received his B.A. from Princeton University.
Denise Barton has served as a director of Icahn Enterprises’ general partner, Icahn Enterprises GP, since September 2019 and was a member of our audit committee from September 2019 until April 2021. Ms. Barton has been Chief Restructuring Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Icahn Automotive Group LLC, an automotive parts installer, retailer and distributor, since July 2021. Ms. Barton has served on the board of directors and audit committee of Viskase Companies, Inc., a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises, since May 2016 and served on the board of directors and audit committee for Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc., a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises, from February 2016 through June 2017. Ms. Barton served as a member of the Operating Executive Board of Gotham Private Equity Partners, LP, a New York based merchant banking firm, from March 2010 through January 2014. Ms. Barton served as the Chief Financial Officer for Land Holdings I, LLC, a company formed to develop, own and operate the Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort, from March 2012 through March 2017. In addition, Ms. Barton has over 15 years’ experience in public accounting and has served as Chief Financial Officer in both public and private companies. Ms. Barton is a certified public accountant and has been licensed by the Nevada State Gaming Control Commission, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission and the Mississippi Gaming Commission.
Nancy Dunlap has served as a director of Icahn Enterprises’ general partner, Icahn Enterprises GP, since April 2021 and is a member of our audit committee. Ms. Dunlap currently serves as the private counsel and head of the private family office of former New Jersey Governor and United States Senator Jon S. Corzine. Since 1999, Ms. Dunlap has overseen all personal investment and legal affairs of the Corzine Family Office. As head of Mr. Corzine’s private family office, Ms. Dunlap also serves as a Trustee of the Jon S. Corzine Trust and as Director of the Jon S. Corzine Foundation. Ms. Dunlap was previously a director of: CVR Refining, LP, an independent downstream energy limited partnership, from July 2018 to February 2019; and Equita Sim, a private investment bank headquartered in Milan, Italy, from November 2010 to September 2015. Ms. Dunlap was also previously a director of Amp Electric Vehicles from March 2010 to September 2012. Ms. Dunlap received a Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Denver.
Margarita Palau-Hernandez is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hernández Ventures, a privately held enterprise involved in business and real estate ventures. Ms. Paláu-Hernández serves on the board of directors of Conduent Incorporated. She previously served on the boards of International Flavors and Fragrances, Xerox Holdings Corporation, Apartment Income REIT Corp., Occidental Petroleum, Herbalife Nutrition Ltd., and ALJ Regional Holdings, Inc. In September of 2018, Ms. Paláu-Hernández was nominated to serve as a Representative of the United States of America to the Seventy-third Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations with the personal rank of Ambassador. Prior to founding Hernández Ventures, Ms. Paláu-Hernández was an attorney with the law firm of McCutcheon, Black, Verleger & Shea.
In addition to her professional responsibilities, Ms. Paláu-Hernández serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Latino at the Smithsonian, as Chair of the Yale School of Management Council of Global Advisors, and as an ex-officio board member of the Yale School of Management Board of Advisors. She also serves on the Board of Advisors of Project Dynamo, and the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Board of Advisors. She previously served as a board member and currently a trustee emeritus of UCLA School of Law Board of Advisors, the University of San Diego Board of Trustees and UCLA Law Women L.E.A.D.
Ms. Paláu-Hernández was born in Mexico where she received her primary and secondary education. She completed her education in the United States, earning a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from the University of San Diego and a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA School of Law.
Ted Papapostolou has served as Chief Financial Officer of Icahn Enterprises since November 2021. In addition, Mr. Papapostolou has served as director of Icahn Enterprises since December 2021 and its Secretary since April 2020. Mr. Papapostolou previously served as the Chief Accounting Officer of Icahn Enterprises from April 2020 to December 2023 and in various progressive accounting positions at Icahn Enterprises from March 2007 to March 2020. Previously, Mr. Papapostolou worked at Grant Thornton LLP in their audit practice. Mr. Papapostolou received his M.B.A. from The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at Saint John’s University and his B.B.A. from Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University. Mr. Papapostolou has served as Director of Viskase Companies, Inc., since April 2020 and as chairman since March 2023. Mr. Papapostolou has served as director and chairman of CVR Energy, Inc., since March 2023. Viskase Companies, Inc. and CVR Energy, Inc. are each indirectly controlled by Carl C. Icahn.
Andrew Teno has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director of Icahn Enterprises since February 2024. Prior to his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Teno served as a portfolio manager at Icahn Capital LP, a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises, since October 2020. Mr. Teno previously worked at Fir Tree Partners, a New York based private investment firm that invests worldwide in public and private companies, real estate and sovereign debt, from 2011 to April 2020. Prior to that, he worked at Crestview Partners from 2009 to 2011 as an associate in their private equity business, and at Gleacher Partners, a boutique mergers and acquisitions firm, from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Teno has served as a director of Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc., an entity that purchases, distributes and transports natural gas and provides utility infrastructure services across North America, since May 2022 and Illumina, Inc., a company engaged in sequencing- and array-based solutions for genetic and genomic analysis since May 2023. Mr. Teno also previously served as a director of: Crown Holdings Inc. from December 2022 to November 2023; FirstEnergy Corp. from March 2021 to December 2023; Herc Holdings Inc. from February 2021 to March 2023; and Cheniere Energy, Inc. from February 2021 to June 2022. Mr. Teno received an undergraduate business degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007.