Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. and Plains GP Holdings announced several executive promotions at Plains All American Pipeline, L.P (PAA). John Keffer and Sam Brown have each been promoted to the positions of Senior Vice President, and Jeremy Goebel and James Pinchback have each been promoted to the positions of Vice President. John R. Keffer, Senior Vice President, joined PAA in 1998 and has served in a number of positions of increasing responsibility including Managing Director Refinery Supply, Director of Trading and Manager of Sales and Trading.

Most recently, Keffer served as Vice President Terminals, with primary responsibility for managing the commercial operations in crude and products terminals. Sam N. Brown, Senior Vice President, joined PAA in 2009 as Vice President, Pipeline Business Development, with primary responsibility for the commercial activities for all crude oil and refined product pipelines in the U.S. Jeremy L. Goebel, Vice President Acquisitions and Strategic Planning. Since joining PAA as Managing Director of Acquisitions at the beginning of 2013, Mr. Goebel has been purposefully rotating through various parts of the company and served in a variety of roles, most recently being involved simultaneously in PAA fundamentals area and crude oil lease group.

James H. Pinchback, Vice President Pipeline Business Development joined PAA in 2006 and has taken on increasing levels of responsibilities within the Pipeline Business Development area, most recently as Managing Director Pipeline Business Development. These promotions are effective immediately and that additional promotions and changes in reporting responsibilities were anticipated over the next 12 to 18 months as various plans are implemented that are designed to accommodate recent and expected growth as well as established management development and succession plans. John Rutherford was stepping down as Executive Vice President.