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 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 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. (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 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.