Virginia Lazenby
Founder and CEO, Bretagne, LLC
Biography
Biography
Virginia "Gigi" Lazenby is managing member, chief executive officer and
100 percent shareholder of Bretagne LLC, an oil and gas production
company she founded in 1988. Previously, Mrs. Lazenby served as
president of Transatlantic Exploration LTD. Mrs. Lazenby is the Vice
Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Association of America where she
previously served on the Board of Directors and chaired the Political
Action Committee as well as serving on several other IPAA committees.
Mrs. Lazenby will assume the Chairmanship of the Independent Petroleum
Association of America in November 2011. Mrs. Lazenby also serves on the
Board of Directors of the American Petroleum Institute and is a member
of the National Petroleum Council, a post appointed by the Secretary of
Energy. Mrs. Lazenby also previously served as the President of the
National Stripper Well Association. She is also a member of the Kentucky
Oil and Gas Association. Mrs. Lazenby has testified before Congress
many times on behalf of the National Stripper Well Association and the
Independent Petroleum Association of America and was awarded the IPAA
Leadership Award in 2001. Mrs. Lazenby previously served as the
President of the Owen Alumni Association at the Owen School of
Management at Vanderbilt University. She also previously served as Vice
President of the Board of Directors of Belle Meade Plantation, an
historic property in Nashville Tenn. representing a history of
agricultural and Thoroughbred breeding encompassing a full century of
Southern History. Mrs. Lazenby received a B. A. in history from
Vanderbilt University and an MBA in finance from the Owen School of
Management at Vanderbilt University. Mrs. Lazenby is a life-long
resident of Nashville, Tenn. She is the daughter of the late Paul Banks,
Jr., who served as president of Spur Oil Company, now a division of
Murphy Oil Company, and Southern States Asphalt, a division of Marathon
Ashland Petroleum, P.L.C., now Marathon Petroleum Company, LLC.
Education
MBA, Vanderbilt, 1973