Dave Samson is General Manager of Public Affairs for Chevron Corporation. His team is responsible for Chevron's corporate communications strategies and activities, including media relations, employee communications, executive communications and issues management, as well as corporate branding and advertising. Samson's team also manages the company's global website, Chevron.com.

Samson joined Chevron from Oracle Corporation where he was Vice President of International Public Relations and Executive Communications. At Oracle, Samson directed the company's corporate communications activities outside the United States.

Prior to joining Oracle, Samson was a partner at Ketchum Public Relations, where he oversaw the agency's San Francisco operations and six practices: Brand, Corporate, Healthcare, Food and Nutrition, Technology and Workplace. While at Ketchum, Samson provided counsel to a range of clients in the financial services, biotech and medical device industries.

Earlier in his career, Samson was Vice President of Global Communications at Levi Strauss & Co. He also worked at IBM as the Director of International Communications and later as Director or Communications for IBM Global Services. Before that, Samson was Senior Manager of Investor and Corporate Relations for Manville Corporation. Samson began his career at MGA Communications, a Denver-based public relations firm.

Samson is Chairman of the General Committee on Communications for the American Petroleum Institute. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Public Relations, as well as a member of the The Seminar and Arthur W. Page Society.

Samson holds a B.A. from the Journalism School at Colorado State University and a MBA from the University of Phoenix.