Sherif Foda has served as NESR’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since its inception. He has a quarter-century’s worth of professional experience in the oil and gas industry around the world, primarily at Schlumberger. At that company, he served as Senior Advisor to the Chairman, as President of the Production Group, and as the President of Schlumberger Europe and Africa. Prior to that, he served as Schlumberger’s Vice President and Managing Director of the Arabian market, was Worldwide Vice President for Well Intervention, and was Schlumberger’s Vice President for Europe, Caspian, and Africa, amongst other roles. Mr Foda began his career in 1993 with Schlumberger, working on the offshore fields in the Red Sea.
He graduated in 1991 from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Faculty of Engineering, and he holds a BSc double major in Electronics and Automatic Control. Mr Foda is a board member of Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: ERII), a technology company based in California. He also serves on the board of Trustees of Awty International School in Houston and is a board member for Al Fanar Venture philanthropy in London.
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