The publicly traded company co-founded by T. Boone Pickens to push natural gas as a fuel for transportation has brought in Disney corporate communications exec and former presidential press aide Gary Foster to head corporate communications.
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Clean Energy Corp., based in Seal Beach, Calif., but with major operations in Dallas, was founded as Pickens Fuel Corp. in 1997 and reconstituted under its current name in 2001. It handles production, conversion and distribution, including its growing network of 238 natural gas fueling stations around the U.S. and Canada for trucks, buses and other commercial customers.
Foster exits Walt Disney Co. after 10 years as senior VP of corporate comms. for its consumer products division.
Other corporate stints included Antigenics (VP, corporate comms.) and Enron Corp., where he was director of PR in the late 1990s.
He started out in politics, serving as director of press advance for the Reagan White House’s second term and later as deputy press secretary for President George H.W. Bush, with a stint in Commerce Dept. public affairs in between.
Bruce Russell is director of corporate comms. at Clean Energy Corp., while Tony Kritzer handles investor communications.