Philip C. Lauinger, Jr.

Philip C. Lauinger, Jr., is chairman and chief executive officer of Lauinger Publishing Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lauinger Publishing provides investment and advisory services to the business information industry.

Prior to starting Lauinger Publishing in 1992, Mr. Lauinger was chairman and chief executive officer of Penn Well Publishing Company (now Penn Well Corp.), Tulsa, an international publisher of business and trade magazines and other business information products. He served in senior management capacities in this family owned company for almost 30 years and was chief executive officer from 1970 to 1992. Penn Well, founded in 1910, serves such industries as oil and gas, electric power, electronics and semiconductors, lasers and optronics, among others, with business and technical magazines, conferences and exhibitions, and digital products and services.

Mr. Lauinger is a life member of the American Business Media, New York City, the trade association of specialized business publishers. He served as a director from 1972 to 1992 and as chairman of its board of directors in 1979/1980.

Mr. Lauinger is active in the field of international relations at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.; as a trustee of Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C.; and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York City. He is current chairman of the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations.

In education, he is an advisory counselor to the Georgetown University Library, Washington, D.C.; and is a former director and vice president of the Cascia Hall School Foundation, Tulsa. He is also a trustee of The Philbrook Museum of Art.

He is a former director of the publicly traded companies MAPCO, Inc. (now Williams Cos.) and BOK Financial Corp., Tulsa, and Parker Drilling Co., Houston; and of the Derrick Publishing Co., Oil City, PA., which has been owned by Mr. Lauinger’s family since 1885. He is a former trustee and chairman of the Tulsa Industrial Authority.

Mr. Lauinger is a graduate of Cascia Hall Preparatory School, Tulsa, and he holds an AB in economics and philosophy from Georgetown University. He is a recipient of the McAllister Fellowship Award at Northwestern University’s Medill Graduate School of Journalism. He and his wife Claire reside in Tulsa.