Jim Mulva, a member of the MD?Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors since 2003, began his two-year term as chair on Sept. 1. Mulva was chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips, the third largest integrated oil and gas company in the United States, from 2002 until he retired in 2012. He began his energy career at Phillips Petroleum in 1973, progressing over the years to a number of management and executive positions in the U.S. and abroad. Mulva and his wife of 47 years, Miriam, are members of the Anderson Assembly, an organization honoring donors who have made lifetime commitments of $1 million or more to MD?Anderson. The Miriam and Jim Mulva Conference Center at MD?Anderson is named in recognition of their $5 million gift to support melanoma research. The Mulvas divide their time between Green Bay, Wisc. and Austin, Texas.