Director Profiles

 

Robert L. Parker Jr.

Executive Chairman

After receiving an undergraduate business degree and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin, Mr. Parker joined the company in 1973 as a contract representative and was named manager of U.S. operations later that year. He was elected a vice president in 1973, executive vice president in 1976, and in October 1977, Mr. Parker was named president and chief operating officer. In December 1991, he was named chief executive officer, was elected chairman in April of 2006 and has retained the position of executive chairman since 2009. Mr. Parker is currently a member of the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC). He is a member of the University of Texas Development Board - at Austin, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Development Board, and the Greater Houston Partnership Board of Directors. He is also a member of the board of directors for the American Petroleum Institute (API), is the current API General Membership chair, serves on the API Policy Committee, and is a former API Upstream Committee member. He has served as a Parker director since 1973.

 

 

John W. Gibson

President and CEO, CCS Corporation

Mr. Gibson joined the Parker board in 2001, and he currently serves as the President and CEO of CCS Corporation. Mr. Gibson is the former president and chief executive officer of Paradigm B.V. From December 2002 to December 2004, he served as chief executive officer of Halliburton Energy Services Group. Previously he served as president of Halliburton Energy Services; president and CEO of Landmark Graphics; chief operating officer and executive vice president of Landmark's Integrated Products groups; and president and vice president of Landmark's Zycor Division. He began his career in the oil and gas industry as an exploration geophysicist for Gulf Oil Company. Following the acquisition of Gulf by Chevron, he became manager of geophysical and geological subsurface imaging for Chevron's Oil Field Research Company. Mr. Gibson earned a bachelor's degree in geology from Auburn University and a master's degree in geology from the University of Houston.

 

 

Robert E. McKee III

Retired Executive Vice President
ConocoPhillips Inc.

Mr. McKee was elected to the board in 2005. In 2003, he retired from ConocoPhillips after 36 years with the company, his last ten as Executive Vice President-Worldwide Exploration and Production. From September 2003 through March 2004, Mr. McKee served as Senior Oil Advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Oil Ministry by Presidential appointment, assisting with the rebuilding of Iraq's oil industry. He currently serves on the boards of Questar Corporation and Post Oak Bank (Houston, Texas), and is chairman of Enventure Global Technology. McKee received a bachelor's in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a master's in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

 

 

Roger B. Plank

President, Apache Corporation

Mr. Plank joined the board in May 2004. Roger Plank joined Apache in 1981 after receiving a degree in economics from Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and his MBA from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. He has served as Vice President and CFO, Vice President of Planning and Corporate Development, Vice President of External Affairs, and Vice President of Corporate Communications. Plank is past president of the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) and was named Mr. TIPRO 2003. Earlier, Plank was appointed to the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission by Texas Governor George W. Bush and served as a Director of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA) and the Domestic Petroleum Council. Mr. Plank also serves on the board of Wyoming's Ucross Foundation, which benefits artists and writers, and as President of Houston's Alley Theatre.

 

 

R. Rudolph Reinfrank

Managing General Partner
Riverford Partners, LLC

Mr. Reinfrank was elected to the Parker board in 1993, and is the board's lead independent director. He is the Managing General Partner of Riverford Partners, LLC, a strategic advisory and investment firm. Prior to founding Riverford, Mr. Reinfrank was a co-founder and a Managing General Partner of Clarity Partners L.P., an $800 million private equity firm, and a co-founder of Clarity China, L.P., a $220 million private equity partnership with investments in China. Before Clarity, he was a co-founder and a Managing General Partner of Rader Reinfrank & Co., a private equity fund. His prior experience includes roles as an executive, investor, and advisor across a wide range of industries for the Roy E. Disney and Marvin Davis families. Mr. Reinfrank is also a director of Global Leveraged Capital, LLC and Equity Partners Risk Purchasing Group. Mr. Reinfrank was previously a director of WebTV Networks, Trillium Digital Systems, Weatherford International, Enterra Corporation, CRC-Evans Pipeline, Impremedia LLC, Base Entertainment LLC, Naylor LLC, Crescent Entertainment, LLC and Central Soya, Inc. Mr. Reinfrank is also a Senior Advisor to Pall Mall Capital, Ltd. (London).

 

 

Robert W. Goldman

Financial Consultant

Mr. Goldman was elected to the board in October 2005. His primary occupation has been as a financial consultant since October 2002. He retired from Conoco, Inc. in 2002 after 14 years of service, most recently as senior vice president - finance and chief financial officer. Prior to that time, he was employed for 23 years by E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. in a variety of domestic and international finance and operating assignments. From 2002 until July, 2008, Mr. Goldman served as the elected Vice President, Finance of the World Petroleum Council. He is a member of the Financial Executives Institute and the Outside Advisory Council of Global Infrastructure Partners. Mr. Goldman also serves on the board of directors of Babcock & Wilcox Company Inc., El Paso Corporation and Tesoro Corporation, as well as the board of trustees of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

 

 

George J. Donnelly

Managing Partner
Lilo Ventures

Mr. Donnelly was elected to the board in October 2005. He has been a managing partner of Lilo Ventures, a venture capital firm, since 2001. He served as president and chief executive officer of the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce during 2005 and 2006 and as President of the San Jacinto Museum of History from 2000 to 2002. From 1988 to 2000, Mr. Donnelly served as vice president of Russell Reynolds Associates and as vice chairman of Spencer Stuart Associates, both executive search firms. He began his career at Texaco in 1962 and served in various roles at Texaco and Gulf Oil until 1997, including vice president of the Worldwide Energy and Minerals Division, vice president of the Latin America division, and head of the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Donnelly serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Houston Partnership and the Institute of International Education. He graduated from the business school at Georgetown University and completed the International Management Program at Columbia University.

 

 

Gary R. King

Independent Advisor

Mr. King joined the board in September 2008. He is currently an independent advisor. From Sept. 2008 through Feb. 2009, he held the position of chief executive officer of Dubai Natural Resources World. From 2005 until 2008, King served as the chief executive officer of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange. From 2001 to 2005, King served in senior roles in the private equity sector at Macquarie Bank Ltd./Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Matrix Commodities DMCC, and Standard Bank London Ltd. From 1997 - 2001, King served in senior roles at Emirates National Oil Company, Dragon Oil PLC and Transcanada International Petroleum. From 1994 to 1997, King served as Vice President - Commodities Group for Morgan Stanley (Singapore). From 1983 to 1994, King served in a variety of roles within Exploration and Production and Oil Trading and Supply at Neste Oy (National Oil and Energy Company of Finland) after beginning his career as an exploration geologist in 1980. King is also a member of the Board of Directors of Loon Energy Inc. (TSX: LEY). King is a graduate of London University with a bachelor's degree in Petroleum Exploration Geology and a master's degree in Petroleum Exploration Geology from Imperial College, Royal School of Mines.

 

 

David C. Mannon

President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Mannon was named senior vice president and chief operating officer of Parker Drilling in December 2004, president and chief operating officer in July 2007, and president, chief executive officer and member of the board of directors in October 2009. Mr. Mannon has nearly 30 years of experience in the drilling industry. He began his career with SEDCO-FOREX, formerly SEDCO, in 1980 as a drilling engineer and joined Triton Engineering Services Company, a subsidiary of Noble Drilling, in 1988, where he was responsible for turnkey, project management and well engineering projects. He held a number of managerial positions culminating with his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2003. Mr. Mannon earned a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Southern Methodist University and a master of business administration from the University of Houston. He is currently a member of the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE), serves on the Upstream Committee of the American Petroleum Institute (API), and is an executive board member of Southern Methodist University's College of Engineering.

 

 

Robert L. Parker

Chairman Emeritus

Mr. Parker joined Parker Drilling in 1947 and 10 years later purchased the company from his father, Gifford C. Parker, the founder of the company. Serving as president since 1954, Mr. Parker took the company public in 1969 and was elected chairman and chief executive officer. Since 2006, he has retained the position of chairman emeritus. Mr. Parker also serves on the board of directors of Clayton Williams Energy, is an advisory director of Bank of Oklahoma, Tulsa, and is the chairman of the U.S. - Kazakhstan Business Association Board of Directors. He was awarded the Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement by the American Petroleum Institute in 1999, the Waggener-Griffin Award from Spindletop International in 2001, and the God and Country Award from Boy Scouts of America in 2001. In 2001 he was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame by the Tulsa Historical Society. Mr. Parker holds a bachelor's degree from The University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a Distinguished Alumnus.