Board of Directors
Peter L.S. Currie, 55, has been a director of the Company since 2010. He has been President of Currie Capital LLC, a private investment firm, since April 2004. From 2006 to January 2010, He was a director of Sun Microsystems, a network computing infrastructure product and service company, and also was a member of its audit committee. Mr. Currie has also served on the boards of Clearwire Corporation (from 2005 to June 2011), a wireless internet service provider, and was a member of its compensation committee and its audit committee, which he chaired; CNET Networks, Inc. (from December 2005 to June 2008), where he was on the audit committee; and Safeco Corporation (from July 2005 to September 2008), where he also served on the nominating and governance committee and on the audit committee, which he chaired during his last year on the committee.
Tony Isaac, 70, retired, has been a director of the Company since 2003, and is the Chairman of the Board. He was the former Chief Executive of The BOC Group plc, an international group with three business segments consisting of Gases and Related Products, Vacuum Technology and Supply Chain Solutions, from September 1999 to October 2006. Since October 2000, Mr. Isaac has served on the board of International Power plc, an independent power producer, and is chairman of its audit committee. He is also the senior non-executive director of the Hogg Robinson Group, a corporate travel services company, where he serves on its remuneration and nomination committees, and is chairman of its audit committee.
K. Vaman Kamath, 64, retired, has been a director of the Company since April 2010. He has been the non-executive Chairman of the Board of ICICI Bank Limited, a banking institution, since May 2009, and was Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank Limited from 2002 to May 2009. He chairs its Credit, Risk and Customer Service Committees, and is a member of its Fraud Monitoring, Information Technology Strategy and its Governance, Remuneration and Nomination committees. Mr. Kamath has been the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Infosys Technologies Limited, an information technology services company, since August 2011, and has served on its board of directors since May 2009. Mr. Kamath also served on Infosys’ audit and nomination committees, and was chairman of its compensation committee, in each case until October 2011. He was also a director of Lupin Limited, a pharmaceutical company, from January 2010 to November 2011 and of Great Eastern Shipping Co. Limited, a shipping company, from May 2010 to November 2011.
Paal Kibsgaard, 44, has been a director of the Company since April 2011. He has been the Company’s Chief Executive Officer since August 2011. He was the Company’s Chief Operating Officer from February 2010 to July 2011, and President of the Reservoir Characterization Group from May 2009 to February 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Kibsgaard served as Vice President, Engineering, Manufacturing and Sustaining, from November 2007 to May 2009. He was Vice President of Personnel from April 2006 to November 2007, and President, Drilling & Measurements, from January 2003 to April 2006.
Nikolay Kudryavtsev, 61, has been a director of the Company since 2007. Since June 1997, he has been the Rector of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Adrian Lajous, 68, has been a director of the Company since 2002. He has been an outside consultant serving as Senior Energy Advisor at McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, and President of Petrométrica, an energy consulting company, in both cases since January 2001. Mr. Lajous is a director of Ternium, S.A. (since 2006), a flat and long steel producer, and serves on its audit committee. He is also a director of Trinity Industries, Inc. (since 2006), a volume producer of freight and tank railcars, and serves on its audit and its finance and risk management committees.
Michael E. Marks, 61, has been a director of the Company since 2005. He has been a Managing Partner of Riverwood Capital, LLC (formerly Bigwood Capital, LLC), a private equity firm, since March 2007. From January 2007 to January 2008, Mr. Marks was a Senior Advisor to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a private equity firm, and was a Member of that firm from January 2006 to January 2007. From 1994 to 2006, Mr. Marks served as the Chief Executive Officer of Flextronics, Inc., a leading producer of advanced electronic manufacturing services. Mr. Marks also served as a director of Flextronics from 1991 to 2008. He was appointed Chairman of the Board of Flextronics effective upon his retirement as Chief Executive Officer in 2006 and served in that role until his retirement from the Board of Flextronics in 2008, and he previously served as Chairman of the Board of Flextronics from 1993 to 2003. Mr. Marks has been a director at SanDisk, a memory products company, since 2003 and became chairman of its board in January 2011. He is also a member of its compensation committee and is chairman of its nominating and governance committee. From 2007 to January 2010, he was a director at Sun Microsystems, a network computing infrastructure product and service company, and a member of its audit committee.
Elizabeth A. Moler, 63, has been a director of the Company since September 2010. She is retired from Exelon Corporation (formerly Unicom), one of the nation’s largest electric utility companies, where she served as Executive Vice President, Government Affairs and Policy from January 2000 to July 2010. In January 2011, Ms. Moler became a director of GenOn Energy, Inc., a large competitive generator of wholesale electricity in the United States. During 1999 she was a member of the Unicom Board of Directors. In December 1999, she resigned as a director of Unicom to become a Senior Vice President of Unicom.
Lubna S. Olayan, 56, has been a director of the Company since April 2011. Since 1986, she has been the deputy chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of Riyadh-based Olayan Financing Company. Since 2001, she has been a Principal of The Olayan Group, a private multinational enterprise engaged in manufacturing, distribution and services. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Olayan Investment Company Establishment, the parent company of The Olayan Group. Since December 2004, Ms. Olayan has been a Director of Saudi Hollandi Bank and is a member of its executive committee and its nomination and remuneration committee. Since 2005, she has been a member of the Board at Chelsfield Partners LLP, a UK real estate investment firm. Ms. Olayan also has been a non-executive director of WPP plc, since March 2005, and is a member of its nomination committee. Ms. Olayan is also a member of the International Advisory Boards of Rolls Royce Group plc (since 2006), Akbank (since 2008) and the National Bank of Kuwait (since 2010).
Leo Rafael Reif, 61, has been a director of the Company since 2007. He has been Provost, Chief Academic Officer and Chief Budget Officer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since August 2005. Mr. Reif was head of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT from September 2004 to July 2005, and an Associate Department Head for Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT from January 1999 to August 2004.
Tore I. Sandvold, 64, has been a director of the Company since 2004. He has been executive Chairman of Sandvold Energy AS, an advisory company in the energy business, since September 2002. Mr. Sandvold is a director of Teekay Corporation (since 2003), a leading provider of international crude oil and petroleum product transportation services, where he is a member of its nominating and governance committee. From 2001 to 2002, Mr. Sandvold served as executive Chairman of Petoro AS, the Norwegian state-owned oil company.
Henri Seydoux, 51, has been a director of the Company since 2009. Since 1994, he has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Parrot S.A., a global provider of wireless mobile telephone accessories. Mr. Seydoux is an entrepreneur with great initiative.