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Alumni in the news

The Houston Business Journal published a feature “2016 Women in Energy Leadership: Women to Watch” that inlcudes Olin alumna Heidi Smith Herzog (MBA 2001), an executive at Phillips 66.

Heidi Herzog has demonstrated versatility throughout her 20-year career in the energy industry, doing jobs that have bolstered her reputation as a skilled and focused leader.

Heidi Smith Herzog

Heidi Smith Herzog

As director of NGL origination at Phillips 66 since 2013, Herzog generates value by securing long-term commodity contracts to supply Phillips 66’s export facility and negotiating key supply deals for multiple refineries. Herzog is responsible for developing contractual commitments supporting the commercialization of Phillips 66’s refineries, fractionators, and the new Freeport LPG export terminal. In addition, Herzog was recently promoted to manager of Phillips 66’s Eastern Region Terminals, where she will lead business development initiatives at close to a dozen refined products and crude terminals within the Phillips 66 network.

Prior to joining Phillips 66, Herzog held several leadership roles during her 10 years at BP, where she led numerous deal teams to make capital improvements for terminal acquisitions and terminal capacity, joint venture infrastructure expansions, equity and third-party production off-take arrangements, wholesale and consumer supply, long term processing, fractionation and transport of hydrocarbons, and asset releases and divestments.

“My golden moment was realizing how I could take all of my experiences and give back to other women developing in their careers. I found this by joining the National Association of Women MBAs.”

Herzog got her start in energy in 1996 at Clark Refining and Marketing, where she managed scheduling, chartering and risk management of refined products. Four years later, she joined Enron as a senior manager, negotiating strategic national and international supply and services agreements.

Having developed a broad range of industry experience, Herzog is a strong advocate of professional development and has mentored employees at various stages of their careers.

  • Education: B.A., Simpson College; MBA, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Boards and affiliations: National Association of Women MBAs (NAWMBA) Houston Professional Chapter, Petrochemical Feedstock Association of the Americas (PFAA), Phillips 66 2016 United Way Campaign, LPG Charity Fund, Women’s Energy Network
  • Years in the energy industry: 20

Photo and story from Houston Business Journal




October was a big month for Olin Women in Business (OWIB)! One of the first big efforts of the year for the club was to bring on board new members to the leadership team. Joining the second-year MBA leadership team are five first-year MBA representatives. These lovely ladies come from Washington DC, Bangalore, Dallas, Nanjing, and New York. They have a variety of experiences from banking to software development to healthcare and more. We are pleased to have Hallie Groff, Nehal Kumar, Neelam Vyas, Lisa Li, and Perri Goldberg on the team!

OWIB logoIn addition, OWIB is very excited to welcome representatives from other Olin programs this year. We strive to be a resource for all women at Olin and thought it was high time that we invite women from other Olin programs to get involved in OWIB. Representing our Specialized Masters women is Serena Chen (MS Supply Chain Management). We also have Manasa Ammisetty and Jennifer Kronick from the PMBA program. We hope these additions will help us better serve all of the women at Olin.

Secondly, October 20-22 was this year’s National Association of Women MBA’s Conference in Stamford, CT. Six women from Olin represented our chapter and we were surprised and honored to be awarded NAWMBA Student Chapter of the Year. During the Leadership Retreat Day we shared many of our successes and strategies with other schools and the NAWMBA organization itself. NAWMBA was impressed with our input and our show of attendance and is looking forward to working with us in the future. Thus, they recognized us with this fantastic award! This is a reflection of all OWIB members and the work that we do. We are thrilled to be recognized and hope we can continue to build a strong relationship with this national organization.