McClendon Partner Tom Ward Still Regrets Leaving Chesapeake
- Biggest mistake at Chesapeake was buying acreage in Lousiana
- Ward never met anyone better at raising money than McClendon
Tapstone's Ward: I Regret Leaving Chesapeake Energy
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A decade since his departure from Chesapeake Energy Corp., Tom L. Ward said he still regrets breaking away from the company he founded with his friend Aubrey McClendon.
"We were both better together than we were separate," Ward, whose birthday fell three days before McClendon’s, said Tuesday in a Bloomberg Television interview. "I’ve never met anyone in my career that could raise capital like Aubrey could."