Board of Directors
Dean E. Taylor
Chairman, President & CEO
Dean Taylor is a 1971 graduate of Tulane University with a B.A. in English, an MSBA graduate of Boston University in 1977. In 2000 he completed the Harvard Advanced Management Program.
Mr. Taylor served as a U.S. Naval Officer from 1971-1978, with duty aboard a Navy destroyer and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. He also served as a staff Officer for the Commander, U.S. Sixth Fleet.
Mr. Taylor started as an assistant manager for Tidewater in June 1978 in Morgan City, Louisiana, assisting with operations in the Gulf of Mexico. He was promoted to General Manager of Tidewater’s business activities in Italy in 1979 and remained there until 1981. From Italy, he was transferred to become General Manager of Tidewater’s business activities in Brazil in 1981 and remained in that position until 1985.
Mr. Taylor was promoted to Regional Manager of Tidewater’s business activities in the Middle East, India and East Africa in 1985 and remained in that position until 1986, at which time he assumed responsibility for Tidewater’s joint ventures and businesses in Mexico. He assumed responsibility for Tidewater’s business activities in Venezuela as well in 1992, and was promoted to corporate Vice President in 1993. In 1995 he assumed responsibility for all Tidewater business activities in the Americas south of the Rio Grande, including the Caribbean. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in December 2000 with continuing operations responsibilities in Brazil, Mexico, Trinidad, Venezuela, Angola, West Africa, Nigeria and the North Sea, and he also oversaw the coordination of all international sales activities.
In October 2001, Mr. Taylor was appointed President and immediately began overseeing every aspect of Tidewater’s worldwide operations. He assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer from former Chairman and CEO William C. O’Malley in March 2002, and also was made Chairman in July 2003. He has served as a director for Whitney Holding Corporation since 2002 and for the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) since 2003. He has been a member of Tidewater’s Board since 2001.
Mr. Taylor is fluent in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese with a working knowledge of French. He lives in Kiln, Mississippi, with his wife Marilene and has six children.
R.A. (Rich) Pattarozzi - Lead Director
Former Vice President, Shell Oil Co.
Mr. Pattarozzi is the former Vice President of Shell Oil Company E&P and President and Chief Executive Officer of Shell Deepwater Development, Inc. and Shell Deepwater Production, Inc. His additional directorships have included Global Industries, Inc., Stone Energy, Inc., Transocean, Inc., Superior Energy Services, Inc. and FMC Technologies, Inc. Mr. Pattarozzi has been a member of Tidewater’s Board since 2001 and has been the company’s Lead Director since 2008.
M. Jay Allison
President, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Comstock Resources, Inc.
Mr. Allison earned his B.B.A., M.S. and J.D. degrees from Baylor University in 1978, 1980 and 1981, respectively.
Mr. Allison is the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board at Comstock Resources, Inc., an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas properties. Mr. Allison has been a director of Comstock since June 1987, and has served as its President and Chief Executive Officer since 1988. Mr. Allison was elected Chairman of the Board at Comstock in 1997.
Mr. Allison has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bois d’Arc Energy, Inc., and currently serves on the Board of Regents for Baylor University. Also, Mr. Allison is on the Advisory Board of the Salvation Army in Dallas, Texas. He has been a member of Tidewater’s Board since 2006.
James C. Day
Retired Chairman and former CEO, Noble Corporation
Mr. James C. Day is the retired Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Noble Corporation, which was founded in Oklahoma in 1921 and is one of the world’s largest offshore drilling companies. Mr. Day joined Tidewater with thirty years of oil and gas experience.
Mr. Day began his career with Noble after graduating from Phillips University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He was promoted to Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Noble Drilling in 1983. In 1984 he became president and CEO, and was named Chairman in 1992.
Mr. Day serves on the Board of Directors of ONEOK, Inc. and EOG Resources, and also serves as Trustee of The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation. He has served on the boards of the Offshore Energy Center and the American Petroleum Institute (API), where he previously served on the Policy Committee and as Chairman of the General Membership Committee. Preceding his retirement, Mr. Day was a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc. (SPE), and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), serving as one of that organization’s Members of Council. He has also served as past Chairman of the National Ocean Industry Association (NOIA) and the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC). Furthermore, Mr. Day is a past President of the Petroleum Club of Houston, past Trustee of Spindletop International and past Board Member of the National Safety Council, Global Industries, LTD, Noble Energy, Sarkeys Energy Center at the University of Oklahoma, the Houston YMCA as well as Boys & Girls Country and The Sam Houston Area Boy Scouts of America. On April 26, 2007, Mr. Day was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Oklahoma. He has been a member of Tidewater’s Board since 2007.
Richard du Moulin - Chairman of Compensation Committee
President, Intrepid Shipping
After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1969, Mr. du Moulin served in the U.S. Navy from 1969 to 1972. In 1974 he graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School and began his career at OMI Corporation. During his 15 years with OMI, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and as a member of the company’s Board of Directors. He left OMI in 1989 to start his own company, Intrepid Shipping. That same year, he led a group of partners in a buyout of Marine Transport Lines (MTL), the oldest transportation company in America, after which Intrepid took on the name of MTL. The company later went public and became Marine Transport Corporation (MTC), where Mr. du Moulin served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. After the acquisition of several competitors, Mr. du Moulin and partners sold MTC to Crowley Maritime in 2000, paving the way for him to re-establish Intrepid Shipping in 2002.
Mr. du Moulin serves as Chairman of the American Bureau of Shipping North American Committee. He has been awarded a number of commendations, including the U.S. Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal, the Commodore Award from the Connecticut Maritime Association and the Admiral of the Ocean Sea Award (AOTOS) from United Seafarer’s Service. He also sits on the Board of Trustees for the Seaman’s Church Institute and serves as Commodore of the Storm Trysail Club, an ocean racing organization. Mr. du Moulin has been a member of Tidewater’s Board since 2003.
Morris E. Foster
Retired VP of ExxonMobil Corp. and President of ExxonMobil Production Company
Mr. Foster earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M in 1965 and joined Exxon after his graduation.
During Mr. Foster’s career with Exxon, he served in a number of production engineering and management roles in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom and Malaysia, prior to his appointment in 1995 as a Senior Vice President in charge of the upstream business of Exxon Company, USA. In 1998, Mr. Foster was appointed President of Exxon Upstream Development Company, and following the merger of Exxon and Mobil in 1999, he was named to the position of President of ExxonMobil Development Company. In 2004, Mr. Foster was named President of ExxonMobil Production Company, the division responsible for ExxonMobil’s upstream oil and gas exploration and production business, and a Vice President of ExxonMobil Corporation.
Morris E. Foster retired in 2008 as Vice President of ExxonMobil Corporation and President of ExxonMobil Production Company following more than 40 years of service with the ExxonMobil group. Mr. Foster currently serves as Chairman of Stagecoach/Mill Creek Resort, a destination resort in Salado, Texas and as Chairman of the Board of Regents of Texas A&M University, and serves on the boards of Scott & White Medical Institute, United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast, Greater Houston Partnership, and First State Bank of Temple Texas. Additionally, Mr. Foster is a member of the American Petroleum Institute, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the Texas Oil & Gas Association. Mr. Foster was inducted into Texas A&M University’s Academy of Distinguished Graduates in 1993. Mr. Foster joined Tidewater Inc.’s Board in July 2010.
J. Wayne Leonard
Chief Executive Officer and Director, Entergy Corporation
Wayne Leonard graduated from Ball State University in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, and earned his MBA in 1987 from Indiana University. He became Entergy’s chief executive officer on January 1, 1999. He joined Entergy in April 1998 as president and chief operating officer of the domestic business, and assumed additional responsibility for international operations in August 1998.
Entergy received the electric industry’s highest honor, the Edison Award, in 2002 and 2005 from the Edison Electric Institute. The Platts Global Energy Awards honored Entergy as 2002 Global Power Company of the Year and 2003 Global Energy Company of the Year. Mr. Leonard was named a finalist for Global CEO of the Year several times and was honored as Global CEO of the Year for 2003. In recognition of its industry-leading financial achievement, Entergy was twice honored under Mr. Leonard’s leadership as the top performer in the Edison Electric Institute’s index of Shareholder-Owned Electric Utilities over the preceding five-year periods.
Mr. Leonard began his utility career at PSI Energy, where he served as the company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1989 to 1994. After the 1994 merger that created Cinergy, he was named group Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and served in that capacity until 1996. That same year, he was named President of Cinergy’s Energy Commodities Strategic Business Unit and president of Cinergy Capital and Trading.
Mr. Leonard has been a member of Tidewater’s Board since 2003.
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Jon C. Madonna - Chairman of Audit Committee
Retired Chairman and CEO, KPMG
Mr. Madonna has served in an executive capacity since 1990 and has been a member of Tidewater’s Board of Directors since 1999. From 1990-1996, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KPMG Peat Marwick. From 1997-1998, he was the Vice Chairman of Travelers Group. He was then awarded the responsibility of President and Chief Executive Officer of Carlson Wagonlit Travel from 1999-2000. He went on to become the Chairman of DigitalThink, Inc., an e-commerce company, from 2002-2004, and also served as President and Chief Operating Officer since January 2002. Mr. Madonna currently serves as Director for AT&T Corp. and Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, Inc.
Joseph H. Netherland
Retired Chairman and former CEO, FMC Technologies
Mr. Netherland received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
Mr. Netherland is the retired Chairman of the Board of FMC Technologies. He served as Chief Executive Officer of FMC Technologies from 2001 to March 2007, when he retired as an executive officer of the Company. Mr. Netherland was President of FMC Technologies from 2001 to 2006.
Previously, Mr. Netherland served as a director of FMC Corporation from 1998 to 2001, and as Executive Vice President of FMC Corporation from 1998 until his appointment as President. Mr. Netherland was the General Manager of FMC Corporation’s Energy and Transportation Group from 1992 to 2001. He continues to serve as a non-independent member of FMC Technologies’ Board of Directors. He also serves on the Boards of the American Petroleum Institute, the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association and Newfield Exploration Company. Additionally, Mr. Netherland is a member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has been a member of Tidewater’s Board since 2008.
Nicholas J. Sutton
Chairman and CEO, Resolute Energy Corporation<
Mr. Sutton earned his undergraduate degree in engineering from Iowa State University, and his law degree from the University of California (Hastings College of Law). After law school, Mr. Sutton was law clerk to the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Additionally, he graduated from the Harvard Business School’s Executive Educational OPM Program.
Mr. Sutton came to Tidewater with a distinguished and successful career in the oil and gas industry. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Resolute Energy Corporation, an independent energy producer headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Sutton has served on the boards of Kerr-McGee Corporation, Colorado Oil & Gas Association and the Association Board of the San Francisco Bay Area YMCA.
In 1978 Mr. Sutton co-founded HS Resources, which grew into one of the largest U.S. domestic independent producers. In 2001, it was acquired by Kerr-McGee Corporation in a merger transaction valued at approximately $1.8 billion. The company was publicly traded for the fourteen years prior to its merger, during which time Mr. Sutton served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Mr. Sutton is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He has been a member of Tidewater’s Board since 2006.
Cindy B. Taylor - Chairperson of Finance and Investment Committee
President and CEO, Oil States International, Inc.
Mrs. Taylor earned her Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree from Texas A&M University and is a Certified Public Accountant.<
Mrs. Taylor came to Tidewater with a distinguished and successful career in the oil and gas industry. Since May 2006, Mrs. Taylor has served as President and CEO of Oil States International, Inc., a diversified solutions provider for the oil and gas industry. From May 2000 through May 2006, Mrs. Taylor was a Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Oil States.
Mrs. Taylor previously held executive positions with a public drilling company and various management positions in public accounting. She serves on the Boards of Oil States International, Inc. and Global Industries, LTD, a company that provides worldwide pipeline construction, platform installation and removal, and diving services to the oil and gas industry. Mrs. Taylor has been a member of Tidewater’s Board since 2008.
Jack Thompson - Chairman of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Consultant
Following his graduation from the University of Arizona in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mining Engineering, Mr. Thompson began his career at Newmont Services Ltd., working at one of the largest underground copper mines in the world. After ten years of service with Newmont in increasingly responsible jobs, he continued his career over the next 24 years at Homestake Mining Co., a $2.5 billion market capitalization gold mining company, where he served in a variety of executive capacities, ultimately becoming Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, the Company became a more aggressive player in the industry. During his tenure at Homestake Mining Co., he was involved in a variety of acquisitions (four transactions totaling $3.5 billion), public offerings and financing activities. Mr. Thompson has served on a variety of public company boards in the United States, Canada and Australia, providing him a wide range of experience in both domestic and international markets. Mr. Thompson has been a member of Tidewater’s Board since 2005.
