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.

Stefan Angeli has been the Chief Financial Officer of NESR since February 8, 2022. Previously, Mr. Angeli was CFO for Stratum Reservoir – a private equity portfolio company involved in reservoir characterization, laboratory services and instrumentation for upstream, downstream and the mining sector. Mr. Angeli spent the majority of his career (30 years) at Schlumberger in diverse roles with his last 5 assignments being Group Controller for Integrated Project Management, Controller for the Reservoir Production Group, Area Controller for Latin America Oilfield Services, and Controller for Schlumberger Information Systems & Well Completion and Productivity Business Segments. During his career, Mr. Angeli has been based in Sydney, Singapore, Jakarta, Aberdeen, Luanda, London, Rio De Janeiro and Houston.

He earned a Bachelor of Economics degree majoring in Economics and Accounting from the University of Sydney, qualified as a chartered accountant, and then finished a graduate diploma in Advanced Financial Management. He has also attended advanced finance management courses at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Howard joined NESR as the General Counsel in November 2024 with over 22 years of legal experience. She began her legal career with the global law firm of Vinson & Elkins and has spent the majority of her career in-house in the oil and gas industry. Jennifer was most recently the Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary for Archrock (NYSE: AROC), a natural gas compression services company, and prior to that, she held legal positions with Exterran, a publicly traded global service provider in the oil, gas, water and power markets.

Jennifer earned her BA from the University of Texas at Austin and her JD from South Texas College of Law Houston

Mr. Merghani is the Vice President for Energy Services at Olayan Group where his responsibilities include management of Olayan’s investments in the energy sector. Mr. Merghani is also a Board Director of several privately-owned JV companies working in the Middle East. Mr. Merghani joined Olayan Group in 2017 after having spent 16 years in the field operations in the oil and gas industry with Schlumberger, majority of it working in East Africa, GCC Countries and Latin America. During his time with Schlumberger, Mr. Merghani held many positions mostly in sales and operations, such as VP and Geo-Market Manager for oilfield services for Brazil and Uruguay, Acting Vice President and Geo-Market Manager for oilfield services in Saudi Arabia, General Manager for Wireline in Saudi Arabia & Bahrain, General Manager for Wireline in the United Arab Emirates, and Sales & Marketing Manager for GCC countries.

Mr. Merghani started his career in the industry in 2000 as Pipeline Engineer for Sudan Petroleum Company and subsequently joined Schlumberger as a Wireline Field Engineer moving across multiple countries in East Africa and the Middle East. Mr. Merghani graduated from the University of Khartoum with first class bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Mr. Alhadrami is the Executive Director for Saudi Arabia. In his role, Mr. Alhadrami is responsible for all of NESR’s operations in the Kingdom. Prior to this role, Mr. Alhadrami was the Production Group Director at NESR. In that role, Mr. Alhadrami was responsible for all the production group segments in the Arabian region, including fracturing, coiled tubing, cementing and stimulation operations in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

Prior to joining NESR, Mr. Alhadrami was the Managing Director of Bin Jabr Group, one of the leading oil & gas service providers in the United Arab Emirates. Before that, Mr. Alhadrami was a Division Head at Saudi Aramco’s Southern Area rig-less operations. Mr. Alhadrami started his career with Schlumberger, where he had several operations and management roles in coiled tubing and pumping services.

Mr. Alhadrami holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Bahrain.

Dr. Ben Amor is Corporate QHSE & Executive Director for NESR. In his role, Mr. Ben Amor is responsible for all aspects of QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety and Environment), with the purpose of building a Zero Injury and Lost Time mindset across the organization as well as positioning NESR to be the QHSE leader of the Oil & Gas Industry. Prior to this role, Mr. Ben Amor was the TAQA Executive Vice President for the Production Group where he was in-charge of the Coiled Tubing and Cementing Services operations and responsible for the strategic growth and M&A for the production portfolio. Previously, Mr. Ben Amor spent over 19 years with Schlumberger where he joined as a Field Engineer in 1996. During his time with Schlumberger, Mr. Ben Amor worked primarily in Operations, Technology and HSE in various assignments across Europe, Middle East and North Africa. Notably, Mr. Ben Amor led Schlumberger operations in the Arabian region covering Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the Partition Zone. Prior to that, Mr. Ben Amor led the Corporate HSE function as its Vice President for Schlumberger globally and before that he led the Schlumberger Operations in the Sultanate of Oman. Earlier, Mr. Ben Amor led the Technology development and deployment for Cementing globally for Schlumberger.

Mr. Ben Amor graduated in 1991 with an Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat, France. In 1996, Mr. Ben Amor completed his Masters & PhD in Material Science and Mechanical Engineering in Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France.

Blake Gendron is the Vice President of Investor Relations & NEDA Segment at NESR, through which he is responsible for investor outreach, corporate access, and business development within the company's NEDA segment. Prior to joining NESR in July 2021, Mr. Gendron was a Director at Wolfe Research (a leading boutique Wall Street research firm), and the senior analyst covering both the Oilfield Services (OFS) and Industrial Technology sectors. Previously, he was an associate on the top-ranked OFS equity research team at Evercore ISI. Mr. Gendron began his career as a wireline engineer at Schlumberger in 2013, primarily conducting field operations across the major conventional & unconventional shale basins in North America.

He graduated in 2013 from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, and holds a BSE in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (2nd major in Economics).

Chahira joined NESR as the Finance Director - Treasury & Insurance in May 2023 with over 17 years of international experience in the Oil & Gas and Technology industries across Africa, Middle East, and Asia with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Applus Velosi and Mercator. Prior to joining NESR, Chahira was also the Country Managing Director for Applus Velosi in Kuwait where she was responsible for the overall country strategy, business development & profitable growth, operational and financial performance in addition to talent development.

Her previous roles included senior finance management positions in Audit, Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Treasury Management.

Chahira holds a master's degree in Accounting from the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) de Lyon and a master's degree in Finance Management from the Academy d'Aix-Marseille, both from France.

Mr Nawfal has more than 41 years of professional experience in Tax, M&A and Financial transactions working for Schlumberger in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the US. In his last role with Schlumberger, he served as Deputy Director of Tax for Schlumberger Ltd, based in the Houston headquarters. His responsibilities included strategic tax planning, corporate structuring and he has done extensive work on acquisitions, including large transactions such as Smith and Cameron, divestitures, joint ventures and post-acquisition restructuring.