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Harvey Gulf Announces New BoD
Harvey Gulf International Marine's parent, HGIM Corp., has announced the appointment of a new Board of Directors to serve following the company's emergence from Chapter 11 proceedings.
The seven member Board includes two current members remaining on
the Board and five new members, each with expertise in individual
areas particularly suited to support the company's operation and
development and collectively, creating a leadership platform that
will enable Harvey Gulf to adjust and thrive in an ever-changing
market.
Shane Guidry. Mr. Guidry remains the Chairman
of the Board and Chief Executive Officer for HGIM Corp. Mr.
Guidry is the third generation in his family to lead Harvey Gulf.
Mr. Guidry has been with Harvey Gulf for over 30 years and has
been the Chief Executive Officer for the company since 1997.
Since taking over as CEO, Mr. Guidry has transformed Harvey Gulf
from an inland and offshore towing vessel operator to the
preferred provider of OSV, MPSV and FSV services in the deepwater
and ultra-deepwater offshore oil and gas industry in the Gulf of
Mexico. This has included, among other innovations, leading the
company to become the first owner and operator of LNG-powered
OSV's in the United States, as well as the first operator of a
LNG bunkering facility in the U.S. Mr. Guidry is intimately
involved in the day-to-day operations of the company including
business development, M&A activity, client management, vessel
design and sales and marketing.
J. Mark Burns. Mr. Burns brings over 35 years of
management and operational experience in the marine and energy
industries. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer of Ensco plc from 2012 to his
retirement in December 2015. During his years of service with
Ensco, Mr. Burns also served as Senior Vice President - Western
Hemisphere and as President of Ensco Offshore International
Company, a subsidiary of Ensco. Prior to joining Ensco, Mr.
Burns served twenty-five years with Noble Corporation. During
his career with Noble, Mr. Burns held increasing levels of
responsibility and managed both US Gulf of Mexico and UK North
Sea operations. In 2007, Mr. Burns was named IADC (International
Association of Drilling Contractors) Contractor of the Year. Mr.
Burns holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from
Sam Houston State University.
Alan Crain. Mr. Crain has 40 years of
experience across various sectors of the international oil and
gas industry. He retired as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal
and Governance Officer of Baker Hughes Incorporated in 2016 after
overseeing legal, compliance, government relations and other
areas for 16 years. Previously, he was Vice President and General
Counsel of Union Texas Petroleum Holdings, Inc. Earlier in his
career, he worked for Pennzoil Company and El Paso LNG Company.
He is a director, and the Chairman of the Governance Committee,
of the National Association of Corporate Directors Texas
Tri-Cities Chapter. He is a lecturer regarding complex issues
facing corporate boards at the Jones Graduate School of Business
at Rice University, Stanford University Law School, and other
organizations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
in New York and Chairman of the Houston Committee on Foreign
Relations. He holds BS and MS degrees in Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MBA and JD degrees from
Syracuse University.
Sherman Edmiston, III. Mr. Edmiston has more
than 20 years of experience working with companies undergoing
major transitions as a principal investor, investment banker and
advisor. Mr. Edmiston was a Partner and Managing Director at
Zolfo Cooper LLC from November 2009 until December 2015. Mr.
Edmiston served as Chief Restructuring Officer of Xinergy, Ltd, a
Central Appalachian producer of thermal and metallurgical coal,
and previously served as Chairman of the Finance and Transaction
committee of JL French Automotive Castings, Inc. Mr. Edmiston
received his B.S. in mechanical Engineering from Arizona State
University and his MBA from the University of Michigan.
Peter Frank. Mr. Frank contributes extensive
investment banking and financial experience to the company. He is
a Senior Managing Director on the Black Diamond Private Equity
Team. Prior to joining Black Diamond, Mr. Frank was President of
GSC Group, where he worked since 2001. From 2005 until 2008, he
served as the Senior Operating Executive for GSC's Recovery
Funds. In addition, Mr. Frank was a member of the investment
committees for Recovery Funds, U.S. Corporate Debt, European
Corporate Debt and European Mezzanine Funds. Prior to 2001, Mr.
Frank was the CEO of Ten Hoeve Bros., Inc. and was an investment
banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Frank graduated from the
University of Michigan with a B.S.E.E. degree and earned an M.B.A
from the Harvard Business School
Steve Orlando. Mr. Orlando founded the Allison
Marine Group in 1995. The company began as a small marine
outfitting and repair company, and became a leader in the
fabrication, transportation and installation of Offshore Oil and
Gas productions facilities in the Gulf of Mexico and Malaysia. In
2000, Allison Marine Fourchon was founded. This highly successful
company was formed to fill a critical need in Fourchon for Heavy
Lift and marshaling services in support of Deepwater Development
projects in the Gulf of Mexico. JAB Energy Solutions was later
formed to provide Oil and Gas operators fixed priced well P &
A, decommissioning and removal of offshore platforms. Under this
platform, Mr. Orlando bought the intellectual property of Tarpon
Systems (a marginal field development structure) in 2004 to fill
a need in Malaysia. In 2012, Orlando partnered with a NYC based
private equity firm and is still involved under Allison Marine
Holdings.
James Swent, III Mr. Swent is a proven leader in
accounting and finance, as well as international business, with
over 35 years of experience working in North America, Europe, the
Middle East and Asia, and Latin America. As a Board member, CEO,
and CFO of medium to large publicly-traded companies in highly
competitive industries, Mr. Swent has demonstrated a unique blend
of strong, principled leadership combined with a solid strategic
focus and supported by sound financial discipline. He has held
senior leadership positions in general management, operations,
finance and business development in a diverse range of industries
- Computer Equipment and Supplies, Semiconductors,
Telecommunications, Office Products, and Offshore Oil and Gas
drilling - with companies such as Memorex Telex, Northern
Telecom, Cyrix, American Pad and Paper, most recently Paragon
Offshore. He has served on Boards of public companies listed on
the NYSE, NASDAQ, and London Stock Exchange and has held the
positions of Chairman, Lead Director and Audit Committee
Chairman. Most recently he served as President and CEO of Paragon
Offshore. As a CEO he had full P&L and leadership
responsibility for companies with revenues of $600M+ employing
over 4000 people in multiple locations. As a CFO and financial
executive, he has managed large public company acquisitions,
divestitures, joint ventures, large merger integration projects
and a major tax redomestication from the U.S. to the UK. He also
led large tender offers, public debt and equity offerings, and
managed complex international tax and treasury matters. His high
technology experience has allowed him to lead complex IT
organizations in a unique manner and he has directed successful
(and cost effective) implementations of large scale ERP systems.
Mr. Swent was the recipient of Institutional Investor's "2010
Best CFO Award". Mr. Swent earned both a Master of Business
Administration in Finance and a Bachelor of Science degree from
the University of California, Berkeley
Harvey Gulf CEO Shane Guidry commented, "I am very pleased to be
supported by a group of extremely intelligent and experienced
professionals. Each is an expert in a field vital to the
company, and, together with Harvey's management team, give Harvey
Gulf a unique leadership that will enable us to continue to
outperform our competitors and expand upon our operations
globally."
Aug 2, 2018
