Other industries have also found it difficult to find CEOs. Natural gas company Chesapeake Energy finally named a permanent CEO earlier this week after a year of getting by with an interim leader. The company faced a shareholder revolt after Chesapeake co-founder Aubrey McClendon was found to be using his stakes in Chesapeake wells to gain personal loans. Anadarko Petroleum executive Robert Douglas Lawler is taking the helm at Chesapeake.