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.
Stefan
Angeli
Chief Financial Officer
Stefan Angeli is the Chief Financial
Officer (CFO) of NESR since February 8, 2022. Previously, he 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 and then qualified as a
chartered accountant.
Jennifer
Howard
General Counsel
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
Salih
Merghani
Vice President, Operations
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.
Naif
Al-Hadrami
Executive Director, Saudi Arabia
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. Chokri
Ben Amor
Corporate QHSE & Executive
Director
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
Vice President, Investor Relations &
NEDA Segment
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
Barnat
Treasury Director
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.
Joseph
Nawfal
Senior Advisor
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.