Mr. Kneen was appointed President, CEO and Director of Tidewater in September 2019. Prior to this, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Tidewater since November 2018 following its acquisition of GulfMark where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer since June 2013.  Mr. Kneen joined GulfMark in June 2008 as the Vice President – Finance and was named Senior Vice President – Finance and Administration in December 2008. He was subsequently appointed as the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in June 2009 where he worked until his appointment as Chief Executive Officer. Before his tenure at GulfMark, Mr. Kneen was Vice President-Finance & Investor Relations for Grant Prideco, Inc., serving in executive finance positions at Grant Prideco since June 2003. Prior to joining Grant Prideco, Mr. Kneen held executive finance positions at Azurix Corp. and was an Audit Manager with the Houston office of Price Waterhouse LLP. He holds an M.B.A. from Rice University and a B.B.A. in Accounting from Texas A&M University, and is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Mr. Rubio has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since March 2021, bringing over 30 years of experience in accounting at both operating division and corporate levels as well as the management of accounting organizations. Prior to his appointment, he served as our Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller since December 2018. From April 2018 until joining Tidewater, Mr. Rubio held the position of Senior Vice President – Chief Financial Officer for GulfMark Offshore Inc. (formerly NYSE: GLF), a company providing marine transportation services to the energy industry through a fleet of offshore support vessels, which was acquired by Tidewater in November 2018. He first joined GulfMark in 2005 as Assistant Controller, was promoted to Controller in 2007, promoted to Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer in December 2008 and then promoted to Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer in January 2012. Mr. Rubio has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Sul Ross State University and is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Mr. Darling has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since March 2021, bringing with him over 30 years of operations and human resources experience in the OSV industry. Prior to his appointment, he served as our Vice President – Chief Human Resources Officer since joining Tidewater in March 2018.  From 2007 to March 2018, he served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources for GulfMark Offshore Inc. (formerly NYSE: GLF), a company providing marine transportation services to the energy industry through a fleet of offshore support vessels, which was acquired by Tidewater in November 2018. Prior to GulfMark, he served in executive human resources roles with Rigdon Marine Corp., a privately held company providing offshore vessel services in the Gulf of Mexico, which was acquired by GulfMark in 2008, and Automobile Protection Corporation, a provider and administrator of extended vehicle service contracts and warranties. Mr. Darling started his career in 1983 with Tidewater, first holding offshore positions as a Vessel Master and Operations Manager, then holding positions with increasing responsibilities in our human resources and operations departments through 1996. Mr. Darling has a Bachelor of Science in Human Resources Management from Brenau University and a Master of Science in Human Resources Management and Labor Relations from the New York Institute of Technology.

Mr. Hudson has served as our Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary since March 2021. He joined Tidewater in 2006, having previously worked in healthcare administration. From 2007 to 2012, he served as a Staff Attorney in Tidewater’s New Orleans office. In 2012, Mr. Hudson was promoted to Regional Counsel, based internationally to provide legal support for many of the company’s global locations. He was promoted to Managing Counsel in 2015 and to Assistant General Counsel in 2017. Mr. Hudson returned from living overseas to the Houston office in 2018 and was promoted to VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary in September 2019.

Mr. Hudson attended the University of St. Thomas in Houston, received his Juris Doctorate from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, and has completed the Leading Operational Excellence program at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Mr. Middleton has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer since June 2024, bringing over 27 years of international experience in the OSV sector. From June 2023 until his appointment, he served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, and from September 2020 until June 2023, he served as our Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Prior to joining Tidewater, Mr. Middleton was a Managing Director at Clarksons PLC (London: CKN), a global company providing various services in the maritime industry, including brokering, finance, port services and research, where he founded and lead the global Offshore & Newbuilding Divisions for over 19 years. He began his career in 1996 with Derrick Offshore Ltd., which was a leading international shipbroker specializing in the offshore energy and subsea cable industries that merged with Pareto JGO Shipbrokers in 2014. Mr. Middleton has a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology from the University of Warwick in the UK, completed the Corporate Governance Program at UCLA in 2024 and expected to graduate from the Executive Program at UCLA in February 2025.

Lee Johnson has extensive experience in delivering technology automation and streamlined business processes to achieve organizational efficiencies and digital transformations. Previously, Mr. Johnson was SVP & Chief Information Officer for GulfMark Offshore since 2009 and has held CIO leadership positions at Tatum LLC, eCommLink, Evercom and Nortel Networks.

Mr. Johnson is an inventor on nine technology patents and won Nortel Networks President’s Award for Excellence for leading the systems consolidation of multiple business units achieving savings of $50M. In 2017, the GulfMark IT and business team was selected as a CIO 100 award winner, recognizing GulfMark as one of the top 100 organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology. This team award was for delivering structural efficiency gains for the business through automation, process optimizations and operational scalability.

Mr. Johnson has a Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University and attended the Master’s program in Computer Science with concentration in Software Engineering at Southern Methodist University.

Mr. Gotcher has served as our Senior Vice President – Strategy, Corporate Development & IR since March 2024. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Gotcher served as our Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations since joining us in May 2021. Prior to joining Tidewater, Mr. Gotcher served as Managing Director for Legacy Star Capital Partners, a generalist private equity firm, from May 2020 to May 2021. Prior to joining Legacy Star, Mr. Gotcher served as Vice President of Finance and Global Controller for TETRA Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TTI), an energy services and solutions company, from May 2018 to April 2020. Prior to TETRA and beginning in September 2011, Mr. Gotcher held various positions with increasing responsibilities at Key Energy Services, Inc., a privately held company providing energy production solutions and services, most recently as Vice President – Corporate Development and Investor Relations. Mr. Gotcher started his career with RBC Capital Markets, a global investment bank, in the energy investment banking group where he focused on public equity and debt capital raises and M&A advisory work within the energy industry. Mr. Gotcher holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics and Finance from Baylor University and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University.

Mr. Lovelace has served as our Vice President, Finance since July 2024. Prior to joining Tidewater, Mr. Lovelace spent over 13 years at Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (NYSE: HP), where he most recently served as Vice President, Corporate Finance and Treasurer. Prior to joining H&P in 2011, Blake served as a hedge fund analyst with Scout Capital Partners in New York and Palo Alto, CA and Breeden Capital Management in Greenwich, CT. Earlier in his career, Blake served as an Associate with Pacific Equity Partners in Sydney, Australia. Pacific Equity Partners is the former Australian affiliate of Bain Capital and the largest private equity firm in Australasia. Blake began his career in the Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch in New York and London. Blake earned a BS, magna cum laude, in Business Administration and Accounting from Washington & Lee University and an MBA in Strategic Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Ortega has served as our Vice President, Human Resources since September 2024, and brings over 23 years of experience in the energy industry. Most recently, from June 2019 until September 2023, she served as the VP of Human Resources and Administration for Beacon Offshore Energy, a privately held exploration and production company engaged in the development, exploitation and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties located in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. From February 2018 to March 2019, she served as VP of Human Resources for Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGC), an exploration and production company engaged in the development, exploitation and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties in conventional assets in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, both offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in Louisiana and Texas, acquired by Cox Oil, a privately-held exploration and production company, in October 2018. From October 2013 to February 2018, she served as the President and CEO of Decisive HR Associates, a privately held human resources consulting company focused on the energy sector in the Bakken and Permian. From August 2011 to September 2013, she served as a Sr. HR Manager, supporting the Bakken Asset Team, for Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES), a global independent energy company engaged in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas. Prior to joining Hess, Ms. Ortega began her career in human resources in January 2002 with Marathon Oil Company (NYSE: MRO), an independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on U.S. resource plays and integrated gas business in Equatorial Guinea, holding positions of increasing responsibility across the global HR organization. Ms. Ortega holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resource Management from Baylor University and a Master of Science in Management (concentration Human Resource Management) from Texas A&M University.  She currently serves as a board member for two non-profit organizations, Cornerstone Family Ministries and The Riverside Project.

Darren earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas A&M University in 1987, and worked for six years at Price Waterhouse in Houston, including his final role as Audit Manager. He joined Tidewater as Treasurer in January 2009, following 14 years in various senior financial positions with offshore drillers Transocean (1993 to 2002) and TODCO (2003 to 2007). His many roles at Transocean included regional finance manager of the shallow water division, corporate senior strategic planning analyst, director of budgeting and forecast, Middle East region controller and manager of internal audit. At TODCO, Darren served as Controller until July 2003, when he assumed the role of Treasurer. At Tidewater, he has responsibility for all treasury and banking functions.

Darren lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and their four children.

Mr. Youngs has served as our Vice President, Controller since May 2021. He joined Tidewater in 1997 as an assistant corporate controller after working for six years in public accounting.  After working in the corporate office for two years, Mr. Youngs spent the next 19 years working in various Tidewater international locations, previously serving as our financial controller in Egypt, Angola, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom, then our regional financial director for Asia Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa based in our Singapore office then our regional financial director for the Americas based in Brazil until 2018 when he returned to the United States.  Mr. Youngs has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas Austin and has over 30 years of experience in accounting at both the operational and corporate levels.