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Antonio J. Campo Mejia
Lead Independent DirectorAntonio J. Campo Mejia
Antonio J. Campo Mejia has been an independent director of the Company since May 12, 2017 and is the Lead Director of the Board. Mr. Campo Mejia has been a non-executive director of the Supervisory Board of Fugro N.V. (Euronext: FUR), a company providing geotechnical, survey, subsea and geosciences services, since 2014 and Vice-Chairman of Basin Holdings, a global holding company focused on providing products and services to energy and industrial customers since 2012. From 2012 to 2013, Mr. Campo Mejia served as non-executive director at Integra Group, an oilfield services company, mainly active in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2012. Mr. Campo Mejia also served as non-executive director at Basin Supply LP, Basin Tools LP and Basin Energy Services LP from 2009 to 2014. Prior to that, Mr. Campo Mejia spent 28 years of his professional career at Schlumberger, one of the world’s leading oilfield services company, in a multitude of senior management positions in different parts of the world. In his various roles with Schlumberger, Mr. Campo Mejia served as the President of Latin America for Oilfield Services and President of Europe & Africa and was the President of Schlumberger’s Integrated Project Management business responsible for the worldwide operations in this service line. Prior to that, Mr. Campo Mejia served as Director of Personnel for the Reservoir Management Group in Houston, Texas and Vice President of Oilfield Services Latin America South, managing a full range of services in the region. In his career prior to 1997, Mr. Campo Mejia held a number of senior management and technical positions in Schlumberger’s wireline business. Mr. Campo Mejia received his bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in 1980. -
Yousef Al Nowais
Independent DirectorYousef Al Nowais
Yousef Al Nowais was appointed by our Nominating and Governance Committee and Board of Directors on November 9, 2019. He serves as the Chairman and Managing Director of Arab Development (“ARDECO”), a company he founded in his home city of Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. ARDECO is a large, diversified business and a leading player in the oil and natural gas and petrochemical sectors as well as power generation and distribution and other engineering and infrastructure project services. He served as the Co-Chairman of Al Nowais Investments LLC, a leading investment company based in Abu Dhabi with local and international holdings in a broad range of strategic investments and actively managed subsidiaries. Mr. Al Nowais has been vice Chairman of Al Dhafra Insurance since 2013, and has been Chairman of Archirodon S.A., an international EPC contractor, since 2023. Prior to founding ARDECO, Mr. Al Nowais joined Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (“ADNOC”) after graduating from the University of Arizona in 1979 and held many senior positions in the ADNOC group, including Finance Director and Managing Director of ADNOC’s subsidiary FERTIL. From 2007 to 2013, Mr. Al Nowais served as Managing Director of Al Maabar International, a leading UAE organization investing internationally in real estate projects in the MENA region, which was formed as a joint venture between Al Dar Properties, Mubadala, Al Qudra Holdings, Reem Investment and Reem International. -
Andrew L. Waite
Independent DirectorAndrew L. Waite
Andrew Waite was elected to the Board as of June 6, 2018, and is an independent director. Mr. Waite is Managing Partner of SCF Partners, Inc., the ultimate general partner of SCF-VIII, L.P., and has been an officer of that company since October 1995. He was previously Vice President of Simmons & Company International, where he served from August 1993 to September 1995. From 1984 to 1991, Mr. Waite held a number of engineering and project management positions with Royal Dutch / Shell Group, an integrated energy company. Mr. Waite previously served on the board of directors of Complete Production Services, Inc. (previously NYSE: CPX), a provider of specialized oil and natural gas completion and production services, from 2007 to 2009, Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (previously NYSE: HOS), a provider of marine services to the energy sector and military customers, from 2000 to 2006, Oil States International, Inc. (NYSE: OIS), a diversified oilfield services and equipment company, from August 1995 through April 2006, Atlantic Navigation Holdings (Singapore) Limited (SGX: 5UL), a provider of marine logistic, ship repair, fabrication, and other marine services, from January 2016 to December 2018, Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FET), a provider of value added solutions and products to the energy industry, from 2010 to 2021, and Nine Energy Service, Inc. (NYSE:NINE), a provider of specialized cementing and completion services and equipment, from 2011 to 2025. Mr. Waite received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Loughborough University, a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering Science from California Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A., with high distinction, from Harvard Business School -
Anthony (Tony) R. Chase
Independent DirectorAnthony (Tony) R. Chase
Anthony (Tony) R. Chase was elected to the Board of Directors on June 14, 2024, and is an independent director. Mr. Chase is Chairman and CEO of ChaseSource, LP, a staffing, facilities management, and real estate development firm. Previously, he started and sold three ventures (Chase Radio Partners, Cricket Wireless and ChaseCom). The first, Chase Radio Partners, founded in 1992, owned seven radio stations and was sold to Clear Channel Communications in 1998. The second was Cricket Wireless, a nationwide cell phone service provider that he started together with Qualcomm in 1993. Mr. Chase opened the first Cricket markets in Chattanooga and Nashville, TN. The third was ChaseCom, a company that built and operated call centers in the United States and India, which he sold to AT&T Corporation in 2007. Mr. Chase is also a principal owner of the Houston Airport Marriott at George Bush Intercontinental Airport and the Principal Auto Toyota dealership in greater Memphis, TN. Mr. Chase serves on several non-profit boards in Houston: Houston Endowment, Greater Houston Partnership, Texas Medical Center, MD Anderson Board of Visitors, and the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Mr. Chase previously served as Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Chairman of the Greater Houston Partnership. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Chase serves on the boards of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE: CFR), LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (NYSE: LYB), and Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE: NBR) and previously served on the boards of Heritage Crystal Clean, Inc. until 2022 and Par-Pacific Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PARR) until 2024. Mr. Chase is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Houston Law Center. -
Lisa A. Pollina
Independent DirectorLisa A. Pollina
Lisa A. Pollina was appointed to the Board effective May 16, 2025 and is standing for election at the Annual General Meeting. Ms. Pollina is a business executive who has negotiated over $50 billion in corporate development deals throughout her career. She provides advisory work for Alvarez & Marsal and has provided private equity investment advisory for alternative asset manager Ares Management (NYSE: ARES) on both growth and special opportunities portfolio investments.
Prior to working with Ares Management, she worked for Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RY) from 2010 to 2015 having served in such roles as Vice Chairman of RBC Capital Markets, a division of the Royal Bank of Canada, as well as senior advisor to the chief executive for RBC International, where she also served as senior advisor for the boards of RBC Canadian Trust Company and RBC Dexia Holding Company. Prior to RBC, Ms. Pollina served as the Global Financial Institution Executive at Bank of America Securities. Ms. Pollina currently serves on the board of directors of Munich RE (FRA: MUV2) for the Americas, a position she has held since 2021 and serves on the board of the Atlantic Council of the United States and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has previously served on the boards of both publicly-traded and privately held companies, including Two Harbors Investment Corp (NYSE: TWO), Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers (NYSE: RBA), and Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: ERII) alongside other privately-held corporate boards. Her board service has included service on audit, risk and governance-related committees.
Ms. Pollina received a B.S. from Western Michigan University and an M.B.A from Yale University. She has also been an instructor of strategy at Yale University and corporate finance at the University of Chicago. -
Sherif Foda
Chairman of the Board & CEOSherif Foda
Sherif Foda has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NESR since inception. He started the company in 2017 as a SPAC to create the first and largest energy services company from the MENA region publicly listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. He has more than 25 years of professional experience in the energy industry working primarily in his earlier career for Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB) around the world, particularly in the Middle East, Europe and the US. He served as Senior Advisor to the Chairman of SLB, an officer and President of the Production Group, the President of Europe and Africa, Vice President, and Managing Director of the Arabian market, President of Well Intervention worldwide, Vice President of Europe, Caspian and Africa, and Managing Director of Oman among other roles. He started his career in 1993 with SLB, working on the offshore fields in the Red Sea, then transferred to Germany and Eastern Europe before getting to multiple senior level positions.
Prior to working in the oil and natural gas industry, he worked in the information technology and computer industry for two years after graduating from Ain Shams University in Cairo with double majors in Electronics Engineering and Automatic Control. He attended various executive courses at Harvard Business School, Oxford and IMD Business School and is a usual speaker in multiple forums. Mr. Foda used to serve as a board member of Energy Recovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: ERII), a technology company based in California and on the Board of Trustees of Awty International School in Houston. He currently serves as the Chairman of the board of directors of WDVG Engineering based in Houston, GLC Energy Company in London and is a member of the Oxford Energy Policy Club in the UK. He is also a board member for Al Fanar Venture philanthropy in London.