SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM
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MANAGEMENT TEAM
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- Jerry
L. Winchester
President & Chief Executive Officer
Jerry has served as our President since 1998. In July 2002 he assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer. From 1998 to May 2008 Jerry also served as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Boots & Coots in 1998, he was employed by Halliburton Energy Services since 1981 in positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as Global Manager – Well Control, Coil Tubing and Special Services. Jerry is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the International Association of Drilling Contractors.
- Dewitt H. Edwards
Chief Operating Officer
Dee has served as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President since June 2008. Dee has served in various capacities for Boots & Coots since September of 1998. Most recently, since June 2006, he has served as Executive Vice President. From April 2005 to June 2006, Dee served as Senior Vice President—Finance and was the company’s principal financial officer. Dee served as a consultant to the company from May 2002 to April 2005, working on initiatives to refinance our obligations and improve our overall capital structure and liquidity. From September 1998 to May 2002, Dee was employed by the company as Executive Vice President. Before joining Boots & Coots Dee was employed by Halliburton Energy Services for 19 years where he served in positions of increasing authority, including Mid-Continent Area Manager and North America Resource Manager.
- Cary Baetz
Chief Financial Officer
Cary joined Boots & Coots as Chief Financial Officer in August of 2008. Before joining Boots & Coots, Cary had served as Vice President of Finance, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary for Chaparral Steel since its spinoff from Texas Industries in 2005. Prior to that, he worked in several financial positions of increasing authority for Texas Industries from 1996 to 2005, up to the position of Director of Corporate Finance in 2002. From 1993 to 1996, Cary served as Relationship Manager and Assistant Vice President for Wells Fargo. He served as a financial analyst for Microprocessors Unlimited from 1990 to 1993 and as an investment advisor for Dean Witter Reynolds from 1988 to 1990. Cary received his B.S. in Finance and Accounting from Oklahoma State University and his M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Arkansas.
- Allen Duke
Senior Vice President, Global Business Development and Delivery
Allen has served as Senior Vice President since November of 2008. Prior to that he was Vice President of Safeguard and Prevention since its inception in 1997 and was instrumental in the growth of this segment. Allen has over 20 years of progressive emergency response, safety, industrial hygiene and prevention experience in the oil and gas industry. He is a certified master facilitator in risk management with an emphasis on Bowtie methodology. Allen has developed emergency management plans for several of the international oil countries as well as for domestic fire departments companies. He has also published several articles on well integrity and risk management. Allen began his career at CET Environmental as a chemist and industrial hygienist and worked at Garner Environmental as Safety and Industrial Hygiene Manager prior to joining Boots & Coots.
- John (Kelly) Hebert
Senior Vice President, Safeguard
Kelly is in charge of Boots & Coots’ health, safety and quality control activities as well as human resources and technology support. He comes to Boots & Coots from Halliburton Energy Services, where he was employed since 1977, beginning his career at Halliburton as Service Supervisor. In 1988 Kelly moved into the health, safety and environmental field and held various positions within Halliburton of increasing authority, including Senior Human Resource Supervisor, Field Service Quality Coordinator and District Manager. Most recently Kelly served as Region HSE/Q Manager for Halliburton’s southern region.
- Mike Clark
Senior Vice President, Equipment Services
In 2007 Mike joined Boots and Coots to help start the Pressure Control Division. Having grown up in the oilfields of Southern Louisiana, Mike has a vast level of experience in the rental service industry. He has worked in this field for over 23 years, both internationally and throughout the US. His experience includes operating equipment on well control, coiled tubing and snubbing jobs in all of the major high pressure areas of the industry. Mike started his career in 1985 as a Service Tech with TOTCO where he worked in the instrumentation and choke divisions, eventually becoming Store Manager in Lafayette, LA. Starting with Power Chokes in 1996, Mike worked the Gulf Coast area as District Manager and later as Senior Vice President of the Land Division of Expro, L.L.C.
- John Wright
Senior Vice President, Technology
John joined Boots & Coots in February 2009. Before that he served as President of John Wright Company. John formed John Wright Company in August 1989 to provide blowout control engineering design, specialist personnel and related special services to the oil and gas industry, specifically for relief wells and underground blowouts. John has more than 30 years experience in the oilfield and has designed and supervised dozens of relief well and borehole intersection projects. He was instrumental in introducing a comprehensive "Well Control Management System". In 1991 John co-founded Well Flow Dynamics to provide hydraulic two-phase transient kill simulations with Olga Well-Kill for blowouts as well as other drilling and production operations.
- Bill Markus
Vice President, Prevention and Well Control
Bill is responsible for the growth and development of Boots & Coots’ Safeguard and prevention services. Bill has spent more than 15 years in the Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) field, serving in various safety and prevention roles of increasing authority since joining Boots & Coots in 1998. Prior to that Bill worked as a Safety and Industrial Hygiene Consultant for Absolute Safety. Bill began his career as a paramedic and firefighter.
- Paul Esteves
Vice President, Europe & Africa
Paul is responsible for business development and geographical management of the African and European markets. Prior to joining Boots & Coots late 2006, Paul was employed by Halliburton Energy Services for close to 18 years where he served in positions of increasing authority at various technical, business development and management positions, and most recently as Global Account Manager based in Algeria. From 1980 to 1988 Paul worked for Flopetrol-Schlumberger in various snubbing positions in West Africa, the North Sea and Latin America.
- Mike Holland
Vice President, Middle East
Mike joined the company in January 2009 to oversee the development, delivery, and Integration of all Boots & Coots service lines within the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Mike comes to Boots & Coots with a very experienced background, having worked at Halliburton Energy Services for 31 years until his retirement in places such as Dubai, India, Angola, the United Kingdom, Venezuela and West Africa. Mike served a four year Engineering Cadetship at Poplar College London and was a Marine Engineering Officer for two years with The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
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