John R. Irwin is President and Chief Executive Officer. He has over thirty years of experience in the industry including resident assignments in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, Myanmar, Nigeria and Sharjah. He joined us in July 1979 as Operations Manager of Technical Services and was promoted to Vice President of Operations in 1980 and to Executive Vice President in 1988. Mr. Irwin was promoted to President and also appointed to serve as one of our directors in 1992. He has served as our Chief Executive Officer since 1993. Mr. Irwin is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, a director and past chairman of the International Association of Drilling Contractors, a director of the Offshore Technology Conference, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. |