Kent Shortridge is president of ONEOK Partners’ natural gas pipelines business segment, responsible for interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines and storage.

Previously, he was vice president of gas supply and administration for ONEOK Distribution Companies. He joined Oklahoma Natural Gas in 1990 and has held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility.

Active in the community and industry, Shortridge is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma-Class XV and has served on various nonprofit boards in the communities where he has lived. He has chaired roundtables for the Southern Gas Association and is a senior member of the University of Oklahoma’s College of Industrial Engineering Advisory Board.

A native of California, Shortridge earned a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering in 1990 from the University of Oklahoma in Norman and a Master of Business Administration degree in 1997 from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.