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board decided on the change over the weekend at a meeting where
directors reevaluated Souki's plans of building the company
beyond exporting liquefied natural gas, the Wall Street Journal
reported.
Souki will be replaced by board director Neal Shear on an
interim basis, the company said in a statement, adding that
board member Andrea Botta has been appointed as chairman of its
board of directors, effective immediately.
Shear is a former managing director of Morgan Stanley's
commodity business and became part of the ownership group that
purchased the Come-By-Chance refinery in Newfoundland, Canada.
In a statement, Icahn said he fully supported the board for
"having the guts" to replace Souki, adding that there was
"little doubt that the board wished to move the company in a
direction that differed greatly from the path Souki wanted."
The company will immediately begin its search for a permanent
CEO, the release from Cheniere said.
(Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw and Jessica Resnick-Ault;
additional reporting by Aurindom Mukherjee and Arpan Varghese in
Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Cooney and Grant McCool)
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