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9. Charles E. Drimal, Jr.

Title: Chairman, President and CEO

Company: PrimeEnergy

FSB 100 Rank: 53

Value of stock owned: $28.5 million

Value of options: $38.5 million

Total ownership value: $67.0 million

Former University of Maryland college athlete Charles Drimal would love to coach football at a major university if he ever gave up leading the oil and gas company he founded more than 30 years ago. He sees a very direct connection between business management and sports coaching.

"Your employees are your players, and your job is to motivate them to work together," he says.

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Notes: Data as of the companies' most recent fiscal year-ends. Options valued net of their strike price. Excludes 80,000 shares for which Mr. Drimal has sole voting rights pursuant to a voting agreement dated June 20, 2006, between Mr. Drimal and his mother, who is the record holder of such shares. Mr. Drimal has no dispositive power with respect to such 80,000 shares and no pecuniary interest in such shares. Equity holdings data provided by Equilar. Due to a data collection error on the part of Equilar, the rankings have been revised since they were first posted.

LAST UPDATE: Jul 01 2008 | 12:04 PM ET