| Munawar (Micki) H. Hidayatallah |
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| Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer |
| Director Since: 2001 |
Allis-Chalmers Energy Inc. Committee Membership:
Finance Committee
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| Munawar H. Hidayatallah has served as our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since May 2001, and was President from May 2001 through February 2003. Mr. Hidayatallah was Chief Executive Officer of OilQuip from its formation in February 2000 until it merged with Allis-Chalmers in May 2001. From December 1994 until August 1999, Mr. Hidayatallah was the Chief Financial Officer and a director of IRI International, Inc., which was acquired by National Oilwell, Inc. in early 2000. IRI International, Inc. manufactured, sold and rented oilfield equipment to the oilfield and natural gas exploration and production sectors. From August 1999 until February 2001, Mr. Hidayatallah worked as a consultant to IRI International, Inc. and Riddell Sports Inc. |
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Saad Bargach was appointed to our board of directors in June 2009. Saad Bargach is a Managing Director at Lime Rock Partners. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Bargach worked for more than 25 years at Schlumberger. Most recently, he served as the company's Chief Information Officer and, from July 2004 to March 2006, as President, Well Completions & Productivity Group which included Artificial Lift (REDA), Completions (CAMCO), Testing (FLOPETROL), Subsea and Sand Management Services. During his long career at Schlumberger, Mr. Bargach also served as President of Consulting & Systems Integration for Schlumberger Sema in several European locations; the President of the Drilling & Measurements division with worldwide responsibility for drill bits, directional drilling, measurements-while-drilling, and logging-while-drilling services; and the Cairo-based President, Oilfield Services for Africa and Near East. He joined the company in 1983 as a field engineer in South America. Fluent in four languages, Mr. Bargach has degrees in both electrical engineering (B.S.) and control systems (M.S.). He is also a member of the board of the American Productivity and Quality Center and currently serves on the board of directors of Gas2 Limited, an Aberdeen-based oil service technology company, Tiway Oil, a Dubai-based oil and gas producing company, Expert Petroleum, a Bucharest-based production enhancement company, ITS International Tubular Services, an Aberdeen-based OFS global company, Omni Oil Technology Holdings Limited, a Dubai-based OFS technology company, and Xtreme Oil Drilling, an Alberta based oil services technology provider.
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| Alejandro P. Bulgheroni |
Inside Director
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| Director Since: 2006 |
Allis-Chalmers Energy Inc. Committee Membership:
Finance Committee
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| Alejandro P. Bulgheroni was appointed to our board of directors in August 2006. Mr. Bulgheroni has served as the Chairman of the Management Committee of Pan American Energy LLC, an oil and gas company, since November 1997. He also served as the Chairman of Bridas SAPIC from 1988 until 1997. He has served as Vice-Chairman and Executive Vice-President of Bridas Corporation since 1993. He also serves as Chairman, President and CEO of Associated Petroleum Investors Ltd., an international oil and gas holding company, as Chairman and President of Global Oilfield Holdings Ltd., as Chairman of Beusa Energy, Inc., and as President and CEO of Nuevo Manantial S.A. and Agroland S.A.. Mr. Bulgheroni is a member of the Petroleum and Gas Argentine Institute and of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (USA), Vice-President of the Argentine Chamber of Hydrocarbons Producers (CEPH), Vice‑President of the Argentine-Uruguayan Chamber of Commerce, Counselor of the Argentine Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEADS) and Vice-President of the Educando Foundation (Argentina). Mr. Bulgheroni is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires with a degree in Industrial Engineering. |
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| Giovanni Dell’ Orto |
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| Director Since: 2009 |
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Giovanni Dell’ Orto was appointed to our board of directors in June 2009. Mr. Dell’ Orto was President and Chief Executive Officer of DLS Drilling, Logistics and Services Corporation (then a subsidiary of Bridas Corporation) from 1994 to august 2006. Following our purchase of DLS, he served as Vice Chairman of DLS Argentina Limited. He is member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Energy Developments and Investments Corporation (EDIC), supervising EDIC’s gas marketing activities in Europe and other upstream projects in North Africa. He is also a non-executive member of the Board of Gas Plus. Prior to joining Bridas and DLS in 1994, he worked for 23 years with ENI in Italy, holding various positions. Mr. Dell' Orto has also served as Chairman and CEO of Saipem and is a board member of Agip and Snam.
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Victor F. Germack was appointed to our Board of Directors in January 2005. Mr. Germack founded, and since 2002, has been the President of RateFinancials Inc., a company that analyzes and rates the quality of earnings, accounting and financial reporting of U.S. and foreign public companies. In addition, Mr. Germack has served since 1980 as President of Heritage Capital Corp., a middle market investment bank focused on technology oriented public and private companies. Prior to founding Heritage Capital, Mr. Germack had operating management positions with the Hertz Corporation and the Allen Group. Mr. Germack started his career with Price Waterhouse as a management consultant. Mr. Germack is a graduate of Fordham University and the Harvard Business School.
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James M. Hennessy was appointed to our board of directors in April 2007. Mr. Hennessy served as President and Chief Executive Officer of ING Funds, a United States mutual fund business of ING Group, from 2001 through 2006. While with ING Funds, Mr. Hennessy oversaw approximately 216 mutual funds with an aggregate of approximately $92 billion in assets under management. From 2003 through 2007, Mr. Hennessy also served on the board of governors of the Investment Company Institute, which is the national trade association for the mutual fund industry, representing most of the industry's assets. Mr. Hennessy is currently on the board of directors of Natural Lighting Company and Munder Capital Holdings, LLC and is a member of the advisory board of the law, science and technology LLM program of Arizona State University Law School. In addition, Mr. Hennessy has a law degree from New York University.
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| Robert E. Nederlander has served as our director since May 1989. Mr. Nederlander served as our Chairman of the board of directors from May 1989 to 1993, and as our Vice Chairman of the board of directors from 1993 to 1996. Mr. Nederlander was a Director of Cendant Corp. from December 1997 and Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee of Cendant Corp. from 2002 until he resigned in 2006 when he became a director of Realogy Corporation, a public company which was a spinoff from Cendant Corp. Mr. Nederlander resigned as a director of Realogy Corporation on April 10, 2007 when the company was sold. Mr. Nederlander was a director of HFS, Inc. from July 1995 to December 1997. Since November 1981, Mr. Nederlander has been President and/or Director of the Nederlander Organization, Inc., owner and operator of legitimate theaters in New York City. Since December 1998, Mr. Nederlander has been a managing partner of the Nederlander Company, LLC, operator of legitimate theaters outside New York City. Mr. Nederlander was Chairman of the board of directors of Varsity Brands, Inc. (formerly Riddell Sports Inc.) from April 1988 to September 2003 and was the Chief Executive Officer of such corporation from 1988 through April 1, 1993. Mr. Nederlander has been a limited partner and a director of the New York Yankees since 1973. Mr. Nederlander has been President of Nederlander Television and Film Productions, Inc. since October 1985. In addition, Mr. Nederlander was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Mego Financial Corp. from January 1988 to January 2002, when he sold his stock interest and resigned. |
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| John Reynolds was appointed to our board of directors in June 2009. Mr. Reynolds co-founded Lime Rock Partners in 1998 and is currently a Managing Director of Lime Rock. Mr. Reynolds remains an active member of the Lime Rock Partners investment team, investigating and executing primarily energy service investment opportunities worldwide. Prior to co-founding Lime Rock, Mr. Reynolds worked at Goldman Sachs where he spent six years in the Investment Research Department and had senior analyst responsibility for global oil service sector research and was one of the top-rated analysts in the sector. He currently serves on the board of directors of Tesco Corporation, EnerMech, Ltd., Revelation Energy Holdings, LLC, Omni Oil Technology Holdings Limited, and VEDCO Holdings, Inc. He previously served on the board of directors of Hercules Offshore, Inc., Eastern Drilling ASA, IPEC, Ltd., Noble Rochford Drilling, Ltd., Patriot Drilling, Roxar ASA, Sensa, Ltd., and Torch Offshore Inc. Mr. Reynolds is a graduate of Bucknell University where he received his B.A. |
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| Zane Tankel has served as our director since February 2007. Mr. Tankel is currently Chief Executive Officer of Apple-Metro, Inc., the New York Metropolitan Area franchisee for Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar, and has been the Chairman of the Board of Apple-Metro, Inc. and Chevys Fresh Mex Restaurants since 1994. Mr. Tankel also serves as a member of the board of directors of Morton's Restaurant Group, Inc., Caribbean Restaurants, LLC, and Perkins & Marie Callender's Inc. Mr. Tankel has also served as Chairman of the Board of the Metro Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization and was a founder of the advisory board for the Boys and Girls Choir of Harlem. Mr. Tankel is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. |
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