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
AlNowais
Independent Director
Yousef
AlNowais
Yousef Al Nowais has served as an independent director
since November 10, 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 & gas and petrochemical sectors
as well as power generation and distribution and other
engineering and infrastructure project services. He
has also 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. 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 2007-2013, 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 Director
Andrew
L. Waite
Andrew Waite was elected to the Board as of June 6,
2018 and is an independent director. Mr. Waite is
Co-President of SCF Partners, Inc., the ultimate
general partner of SCF-VIII, L.P. and the ultimate
general partner of the majority shareholder of SV3
Holdings Pte Ltd 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 currently serves on the board of
directors of Nine Energy Service, Inc. (NYSE: NINE), a
position he has held since February 2013, and on the
board of directors of Forum Energy Technologies, Inc.
(NYSE: FET), a position he has held since August 2010.
Mr. Waite previously served on the board of directors
of Complete Production Services, Inc., a provider of
specialized oil and gas completion and production
services from 2007 to 2009, Hornbeck Offshore
Services, Inc., a provider of marine services to the
energy sector and military customers from 2000 to
2006, Oil States International, Inc., a diversified
oilfield services and equipment company, from August
1995 through April 2006, and 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.
Mr. Waite received an MBA with High Distinction from
Harvard Business School, an MS degree in Environmental
Engineering Science from California Institute of
Technology
Anthony R.
Chase
Independent Director
Anthony R.
Chase
Anthony R. (Tony) Chase is Chairman and CEO of
ChaseSource, LP, a staffing, facilities management,
and real estate development firm. Mr. Chase started
and sold three ventures (Chase Radio Partners, Cricket
Wireless and ChaseCom) and now owns and operates his
fourth, ChaseSource. 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 LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (NYSE: LYB),
Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE: NBR) and Par-Pacific
Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PARR) and previously served on
the Board of Heritage Crystal Clean, Inc. until 2022.
Mr. Chase is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the
University of Houston Law Center.
Sherif
Foda
Chairman of the Board & CEO
Sherif
Foda
Sherif Foda has served as the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of NESR since inception. He founded
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 HBS, Oxford and IMD 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 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.