Terence J. Cryan has been a member of our Board of Directors since October 2012 and Chairman of the board since June 2014. Mr. Cryan was our lead independent director from October 2013 to June 2014 when he became Chairman of the Board. Since August 2017, Mr. Cryan has served as the Chairman of the Board of Westwater Resources, Inc. Mr. Cryan has served on the boards of directors of a number of other publicly traded companies including Uranium Resources, Inc. from 2006 to 2016; Global Power Equipment Group Inc. from 2008 to 2017; Superior Drilling Products from 2014 to 2016; Gryphon Gold Corporation from 2009 to 2012; and The Providence Service Corporation from 2009 to 2011. In July 2020, Mr. Cryan joined MACCO Restructuring Group, LLC as a Managing Director. Mr. Cryan previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Medical Acoustics, LLC from 2007 through 2010. From September 2012 until April 2013, Mr. Cryan also served as interim President and CEO of Uranium Resources, Inc., and was elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Uranium Resources, Inc. in June 2014 and served until March 2016. Mr. Cryan served as President and CEO of Global Power Equipment Group Inc., from March 2015 until July 2017. Mr. Cryan co-founded in 2001 Concert Energy Partners, LLC, an investment and private equity firm based in New York with a focus on the traditional and alternative energy, power and natural resources industries, and served as Managing Director until 2015. Between 1990 and 2001, Mr. Cryan was a Senior Managing Director in the investment banking department at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. in New York City and a Managing Director at Paine Webber/Kidder Peabody in both New York City and London. Mr. Cryan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University in 1983 and a Master of Science degree in Economics from The London School of Economics in 1984. In December 2014, Terence Cryan was named a Board Leadership Fellow by the National Association of Corporate Directors. We believe Mr. Cryan’s qualifications to sit on our Board of Directors include his significant experience in financial matters, his prior board and executive experience at other companies, his broad energy industry background and his extensive expertise in financings, mergers and acquisitions.
Clyde W. Hewlett became a member of the Board of Directors on December 23, 2020. Mr. Hewlett has over 40 years of experience in offshore engineering design, manufacturing and operations. Mr. Hewlett has served on the Board of Directors of Seismic City, Inc. since April 2000. From 2015 until 2019, Mr. Hewlett served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Oceaneering International, Inc., a global provider of engineered services and products to the offshore energy industry as well as the defense, entertainment and aerospace industries. Prior to his service as COO, Mr. Hewlett was the Senior Vice President for Projects (from 2007 to 2015) and a Vice President and Project Manager (1988 to 2007) with Oceaneering International, Inc. Prior to joining Oceaneering, Mr. Hewlett worked as in various project engineering and project management roles with Vetco Gray, Inc. (from 1987 to 1988), with Hughes Offshore (from 1985 to 1987), with CanOcean Resources, Ltd. (from 1979 to 1984) and with Esso Canada (from 1978 to 1979). Mr. Hewlett obtained his Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 1978. We believe that Mr. Hewlett’s significant engineering, manufacturing and operational experience in the offshore environment qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors.
Corliss J. Montesi brings nearly 40 years of senior finance, accounting, and governance leadership across Fortune 250 aerospace, defense, manufacturing, and industrial companies. She has held executive leadership roles at L3Harris Technologies, Stanley Black & Decker, and United Technologies Corporation (now Raytheon Technologies), including service as Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer, Chief Audit Executive, and Chief Financial Officer of a $2.5 billion business unit. Her expertise spans financial reporting, internal controls, enterprise risk management, capital allocation, and advising public company audit committees.
Ms. Montesi holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Bridgeport and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Connecticut, where she was inducted into the School of Business Hall of Fame. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a graduate of the United Technologies Executive Leadership Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. We believe that Ms. Montesi’s extensive financial and audit expertise, executive leadership experience, and corporate governance background qualify her to serve on our Board of Directors.
Jim Thompson has more than two decades of international experience as an executive and advisor within the energy, power, and renewable industries, working with Fortune 500 and multinational organizations. Since October 2016, Mr. Thompson has served as the Energy Practice Head at Odgers Executive Search, where he specializes in executive searches across energy and natural resources, infrastructure, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and clean technology sectors.
Prior to joining Odgers, Mr. Thompson held senior executive leadership roles with Oerlikon Solar, ABB, and Siemens, where he developed extensive experience in global energy markets and large-scale industrial operations. Mr. Thompson earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. We believe Mr. Thompson’s qualifications to serve on the Board include his deep international energy industry expertise, executive leadership background, and experience advising organizations on strategic talent and organizational development.