Speakers

Sherif Foda has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NESR since its inception. He founded the company in 2017 as a SPAC to create the first and largest energy services company from the MENA region, publicly listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market. He has more than 25 years of professional experience in the energy industry working primarily in his earlier career for Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB) around the world, particularly in the Middle East, Europe and the US. He served as Senior Advisor to the Chairman of SLB, an officer and President of the Production Group, the President of Europe and Africa, Vice President, and Managing Director of the Arabian market, President of well intervention worldwide, Vice President of Europe, Caspian and Africa, and Managing Director of Oman among other roles. He started his career in 1993 with SLB, working on the offshore fields in the Red Sea, then transferred to Germany and Eastern Europe before getting to multiple senior level positions. Prior to working in the oil and natural gas industry, he worked in the information technology and computer industry for two years after graduating from Ain Shams University in Cairo with double majors in Electronics Engineering and Automatic Control. He has attended executive courses at Harvard Business School (HBS), Oxford University, and IMD, and is a usual speaker in multiple forums. Mr. Foda used to serve as a board member of Energy Recovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: ERII), a technology company based in California and the Board of Trustees of Awty International School in Houston. He currently serves as the Chairman of the board of directors of WDVG Engineering based in Houston, GLC energy company in London and is a member of the Oxford Energy Policy Club in the UK. He is also a board member for Al Fanar Venture philanthropy in London.