Conocophillips'kevin meyers emerging from the shadows

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Like so many other oilpatch VIPs,Kevin Meyers followed a serpentine career path which ultimately led him from his undergraduate days to a deluxe office chair in Calgary's high-rent district."I won't tell you the journey was a planned one,"he confirms with a laugh.A math and chemistry major,the president of ConocoPhillips Canada initially set out to mould young minds.But an eye-opening stint as a student teacher at the elementary level convinced him to think again.He lacked the patience to tutor the kiddies.He also arrived at the lifelong conviction that"we don't pay our teachers nearly enough."