Board of Directors

Mr. Minmier has served as a Director on our board since October 2018, and Chairman of the Board since April 2023. Mr. Minmier is currently a private investor.  Mr. Minmier served as Chief Executive Officer of Extreme Plastics Plus, LLC, a subsidiary of BW Equity Holdings, LLC, and Board Director of BW Equity Holdings, LLC from May 2018 to February 2020. Mr. Minmier served as a Director for Sidewinder Drilling until May 2018. Mr. Minmier served as President of Nomac Drilling LLC, a subsidiary of COS Holdings, LLC and subsequently Seventy-Seven Energy Inc., from 2011 to 2017. Mr. Minmier has more than 32 years of experience in the drilling industry and served as Chairman of the Board of the International Association of Drilling Contractors in 2014. Mr. Minmier was honorably discharged as a Captain in the US Air Force and received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of West Florida.

Mr. Gallegos has served as a Director on our board and as our President and Chief Executive Officer since October 2018. Prior to his current role, Mr. Gallegos served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sidewinder Drilling Company. Mr. Gallegos joined Sidewinder upon its founding as Senior Vice President & CFO, a position he held until November 2014 when he was promoted to President & Chief Financial Officer with overall responsibility for the profitability and operating performance of the Company. He was promoted to President and CEO in September 2017. From April 2006 through September 2010, Mr. Gallegos held the position of Vice President Business Development of Scorpion Offshore. Scorpion Offshore was an international offshore drilling contractor with operations across the globe which was acquired by Seadrill in 2010. Prior to joining Scorpion Offshore, he held operational, marketing, corporate planning and management positions with Atwood Oceanics, Transocean and Ensco. Mr. Gallegos started his career working as a roughneck on offshore drilling rigs in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Gallegos is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the International Association of Drilling Contractors . He is a veteran of the US Army and holds a B.B.A. from Texas A&M University and an Master of Business Administration from Rice University.

Mr. Barrett has over 20 years of energy experience as an investor, operations executive, director, and advisor. Mr. Barret is currently a Partner of Z2 Investment Management, LP, which he co-founded in 2022. From 2017 to 2022, Mr. Barrett was a Managing Director at Angelo Gordon in the Energy Credit strategy group. From 2008 until 2017, Mr. Barrett served as an Executive Vice President at Basin Holdings, a private holding company where he held several executive management positions, including Global Head of Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer of the rental and manufacturing divisions. Prior to Basin, Mr. Barrett was a member of Credit Suisse's Special Opportunities Group, a proprietary debt and equity investment team, and worked in investment banking at both UBS and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Barrett received a B.A. from Georgetown University and M.B.A. from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Mr. Cebula has a decades long history as a director, operating advisor and investor, including over 35 years of experience in private equity and investment banking. In 2021, Mr. Cebula served as an Operating Advisor to Solace Capital Partners, L.P., a middle-market private investment firm, an entity that he co-founded in 2013, and where he served as a Managing Partner until February 2018 and Chief Operating Officer until December 2020.  Between 2007 and 2012, Mr. Cebula served as a Managing Director of Jefferies Capital Partners and Jefferies & Company, Inc. Between 1994 and 2007, Mr. Cebula was a Managing Director at Trust Company of the West/Oaktree Capital Management and was one of the original four senior members of Oaktree's Principal Opportunities Funds. Since July 2021, Mr. Cebula has served as an Independent Director of Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc., a publicly traded employment staffing company.

Mr. Strom has served as a member of our Board of Directors since September 2024 as an independent director.  Mr. Strom has more than 30 years' experience as an investment banker, board member and investor regularly working with clients seeking to complete challenging financings, mergers and acquisitions, improved operating performance, financial restructurings and other situations involving complex negotiations.  Since 2024, Mr. Strom has served as Chief Executive Officer of Odinbrook Global Advisors, an advisory firm that he founded in 2014.  From 2016 to 2018, Mr. Strom served as Chief Executive Officer of Blackhill Partners, an investment bank specializing in the energy and shipping sectors.  Prior to 2014, Mr. Strom held various leadership roles in investment banking, including Global Group Head and Managing Director of Jefferies' Restructuring Group and Managing Director of CIBC World Market's Restructuring Group.  Mr. Strom currently serves as director of Vintage Wine Estates, Inc.  Mr. Strom earned a B.B.A. in Finance from Arizona State University and a Master of Business Adminstration from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.