Thomas F. Hoffman

Senior Vice President - External Affairs
CONSOL Energy Inc.

Tom Hoffman is responsible for public and community relations for CONSOL Energy.  Hoffman is the company’s chief communications officer to all external audiences and assists other department heads with internal communication.  Hoffman also shares responsibility for developing and communicating CONSOL’s strategic objectives in government and business policy.

He is chairman of the Public Relations Committee for the Pennsylvania Coal Association and a member of the West  Virginia Coal Association Public Relations Committee as well as the National Mining Association Communications Committee. He was appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell to serve as a member of the Mine Families First Response and Communications Advisory Council of Pennsylvania.  He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, a member of the President’s Leadership Council at Fairmont State University in Fairmont, W. Va., and a member of the Board of the Washington County Community Foundation.

Hoffman is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Investor Relations Institute, and the Public Relations Society of America.  He was named the Pittsburgh Renaissance Communicator of the Year for 2008 by the Public Relations Society of America.

Hoffman is a past chairman of the North Dakota Lignite Council, a past board member of the Lignite Council and the Montana Coal Council, and a past chairman of the Government Relations Committee of the National Coal Association.  He is past president of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute.  In addition, he served for nine years as a trustee of Waynesburg College. He served on the board of directors of the Upper St. Clair Chamber of Commerce. He also served as a member of the Recycling Task Force for Upper St. Clair Township. He is a past member of the Board of Greene County School-to-Work, a former member of the Green County Industrial Development, Inc., and a past member of the Board of the Regional Environmental Center in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Hoffman is a native of Steelton, Pa.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.) and a Master of Science degree in geology from the University of Wisconsin, where he was awarded the Stanley Tyler Award for outstanding teaching.  He attended the Darden School of Business Executive Program at the University of Virginia in 1984.

Hoffman joined CONSOL in 1974 as a manager of public relations for its Western Region.  In 1977, he was promoted to coordinator - government affairs and transferred to Pittsburgh.  In September 1982, Hoffman was promoted to director - federal government affairs and transferred to Washington, DC.

In early 1987, he was named director - federal government affairs for DuPont, CONSOL Energy’s former parent company.  Later that year, in May, he was promoted to vice president - public relations for CONSOL Energy and returned to Pittsburgh.  In 1988, he assumed the additional duties of chief public affairs officer for DuPont’s
Remington Arms Company.  In 1999, he was named vice president – investor and public relations.

Prior to joining CONSOL Energy, Hoffman was assistant professor of earth science at Minot State University on Minot, N. D.