People: Global Geophysical Services Inc (GGS.N)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Richard White

57 2013 Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer

P. Mathew Verghese

48 2009 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President

James Brasher

64 2013 Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary

Thomas Fleure

51 2011 Senior Vice President - Geophysical Technology

Ross Peebles

49 2012 Senior Vice President - E&P Services

Michael Bahorich

56 2011 Independent Director

Michael Forrest

79 2005 Independent Director

Karl Kurz

51 2010 Independent Director

George Matelich

56 2006 Independent Director

Joseph McCoy

62 2011 Independent Director

Stanley Osborne

42 2007 Independent Director

Damir Skerl

73 2005 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Richard White

Mr. Richard C. White is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Global Geophysical Services, Inc. He was appointed as President, Chief Executive Officer of the Company on October 25, 2012 and Director of the Company on December 14, 2012. Before joining the Company, Mr. White served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of NuTec Energy Services Inc. Mr. White held that position from October 2001 until his retirement from NuTec in September 2002. Mr. White was the Chief Executive Officer of Veritas DGC Land, Inc. from January 2000 through June 2000. From 1995 until his retirement in October 1999, Mr. White served as President of Western Geophysical Company, as well as Senior Vice President of Western Atlas Inc. He also served as Vice President of Baker Hughes Incorporated from August 1998 until October 1999. Prior to 1995, he held various other executive positions with Western Geophysical Company, including Chief Operating Officer. Mr. White also previously served on the board of directors of Geospace Technologies Corp. (formerly OYO Geospace Corp.) from 2008 through the date of his appointment at the Company; OMNI Energy Service Corp. from 2001 through 2010; and VGS Seismic Canada Inc. from 2005 through 2009.

P. Mathew Verghese

Mr. P. Mathew Verghese is Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President of Global Geophysical Services Inc. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Verghese was a Senior Vice President in the Capital Markets Division at Lehman Brothers Inc., an investment bank, from April 2007 to September 2008, and with Barclays Capital, Inc., an investment bank, from September 2008 until December 2008. While at Lehman Brothers, he served as an Investment Manager and Chief Operating Officer of the Lehman Energy Fund, a principal investments group which specialized in debt and private equity investments to the energy sector. Mr. Verghese was formerly a partner at Arthur Andersen LLP, and Chief Financial Officer of Andersen Business Consulting. Mr. Verghese serves on the Board of Trustees of the Star of Hope Mission and is past Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the College of Technology at the University of Houston. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Houston.

James Brasher

Mr. James E. Brasher is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Global Geophysical Services, Inc. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Brasher was engaged in private practice from May 2012 to the present. He served as the Vice President, Senior Legal Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Petroleum Geo-Services, Inc. from April 2004 to May 2012. Mr. Brasher was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Reservoir Technologies, Inc. from January 2000 to October 2003.

Thomas Fleure

Mr. Thomas J. Fleure is Senior Vice President - Geophysical Technology of Global Geophysical Services Inc. Mr. Fleure resigned as a Director in April 2011, having been a Director since December 2004. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Fleure spent 21 years at Western Geophysical and its successor, WesternGeco, where he held several senior management positions in both technology and operations, including positions as InTouch Manager for Geophysics and Survey Evaluation and Design, Applied Technology Special Projects Manager, and Manager of Western Hemisphere Marine Operations. Mr. Fleure received a Bachelor of Science in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

Ross Peebles

Mr. Ross G. Peebles is Senior Vice President - E&P Services of Global Geophysical Services, Inc. Mr. Peebles brings to Global Geophysical Services, Inc over 20 years of experience in the geosciences and professional services related to hydrocarbon exploration and production. In his new role, he will be responsible for all aspects of seismic and microseismic processing and interpretation as they relate to such exploration and production services. While he began his career as a geologist specializing in carbonate and fractured reservoirs, he soon moved into integrated field development studies, while most recently has been developing workflows for the characterization and development of unconventional resources. Starting in 1989, Mr. Peebles spent 15 years at Halliburton where he was Global Manager of the Reservoir Description group, Director of the Moscow Technology Center, and Director of Technical Excellence for the Consulting Business at Landmark Graphics. In 2004, he moved to Paradigm Geophysical Corp., where he served in various executive positions including Vice President for Mexico, Vice President of Applied Technologies and Vice President of Consulting Operations. Mr. Peebles joined the Company in 2011, and he served as Director of Unconventional Consulting and Vice President of Interpretation prior to taking his current role as Senior Vice President, E&P Services. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Geological Oceanography from the Florida Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in Geoscience from the University of Texas at Dallas. Mr. Peebles’ career has included assignments in Washington D.C., Abu Dhabi, Aberdeen, Moscow, Villahermosa and Houston.

Michael Bahorich

Mr. Michael S. Bahorich is Independent Director of Global Geophysical Services, Inc. Mr. Bahorich has been Chief Technology Officer of Apache Corp. since November 2010. Mr. Bahorich served as Technology Officer of Apache Corp. from February 2009 to November 2010. He served as Executive Vice President of Exploration and Production Technology of Apache Corp. since May 2000 and Vice President, exploration and production technology since January 1999, Vice President, exploration technology since December 1997 and Chief Geophysicist since 1996. From 1981 to joining Apache Corp., he held positions of increasing responsibility at Amoco Corporation in Denver, Colorado and Tulsa, Oklahoma, most recently as a resource manager for Amoco's mid-continent business unit. He is a past president of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and serves on advisory boards at Yale and Stanford. Mr. Bahorich is a Graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia, and received his Master's Degree in Geophysics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI).

Michael Forrest

Mr. Michael C. Forrest is Independent Director of Global Geophysical Services Inc. He is an oil and gas exploration consultant since September 1997. Since January 2001 he has served as Chairman of the DHI (Direct Hydrocarbon Indicator) Interpretation and Risk Analysis Consortium sponsored by Rose & Associates, LLP, an oil and gas exploration and production risk management consulting firm. He has been a director of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Foundation since January 2009. From June 1999 to June 2003, Mr. Forrest served as a director of Matador Petroleum, a private oil and gas exploration and production company. From March 1995 to June 1999, Mr. Forrest served as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer and from June 1992 to March 1995 as Senior Vice President Business Development and Technology of Maxus Energy Corporation after Maxus was purchased by YPF of Argentina. Prior to that time, Mr. Forrest held a number of management positions with Shell Oil Company, including Exploration Manager, Alaska Division, General Manager Exploration, Shell Offshore (Gulf of Mexico) and President of Pecten International Company, a Shell U.S.A. subsidiary. Mr. Forrest received a Bachelor of Science in Geophysical Engineering from St. Louis University.

Karl Kurz

Mr. Karl F. Kurz is Independent Director of Global Geophysical Services Inc. Mr. Kurz brings over twenty eight years of energy industry experience, with particular focus in executive management, operations, midstream, marketing, business development and planning. Mr. Kurz joined, in March 2009, CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC (a global private equity firm specializing in buyouts and growth equity investments) as its Managing Director and Co-Head of the Energy Group. Previously, Mr. Kurz served as the Chief Operating Officer for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, from December 2006 through March 2009. He had responsibility for global exploration and production, marketing, midstream, land, technology, and engineering services. He began his career with ARCO Oil & Gas Company in 1983 and spent seven years in various upstream roles, with a focus on reservoir and production engineering. In 1990, he continued his career with a move into ARCO Oil & Gas Company’s Crude Oil Marketing Department. Mr. Kurz became Manager of Vastar Resources, Inc.’s Crude Oil and NGL Marketing Department in 1995 and was promoted to General Manager of Midstream and Marketing in 1998. Mr. Kurz holds a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1983. He is also a graduate of Harvard’s Advanced Management Program in 2008. Mr. Kurz has served on the Board of Directors of Natural Gas Supply Association, the American Petroleum Institute, and the Independent Petroleum Association of America. Mr. Kurz also served on the board of Western Gas Partners (WES) from December 2007 through March 2008, and currently serves on the Board of SemGroup (SEMG) Corporation and Chaparral Energy LLC. He also chairs the Compensation Committee of SemGroup (SEMG) Corporation.

George Matelich

Mr. George E. Matelich is Independent Director of Global Geophysical Services Inc. Mr. Matelich currently serves as a Managing Director of Kelso & Company, L.P., a private equity firm ("Kelso"). He joined Kelso in January 1985, after serving in the mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance departments at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb from September 1982 to December 1984. From June 1978 to August 1980, Mr. Matelich was a consultant with Ernst & Ernst. Mr. Matelich is a Director of CRV Energy, Inc. and Hunt Marcellus, LLC. Mr. Matelich is currently a trustee of the University of Puget Sound, serves as a Director on the Board of the American Prairie Foundation, and is a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. Mr. Matelich was a Director of CVR Partners, L.P. and Waste Services, Inc. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, summa cum laude, from the University of Puget Sound and a Masters of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Joseph McCoy

Mr. Joseph P. McCoy is Independent Director of Global Geophysical Services, Inc. He has been member of the Audit Committee (replacing Stanley de J. Osborne who resigned as a member of the Audit Committee). Mr. McCoy has also been a member of the Board of Directors, since September 2007, and has been served as Chairman of the Audit Committee, since April 2009, of Linn Energy, LLC. In August 2011, he joined the Board of Directors of Scientific Drilling, Inc., a privately held company, and serves as its Audit Committee Chairman. Mr. McCoy served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Burlington Resources Inc. from 2005 until 2006 and Vice President and Controller (Chief Accounting Officer) of Burlington Resources Inc. from 2001 until 2005. Prior to joining Burlington Resources, Mr. McCoy spent 27 years with Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) and affiliates in a variety of financial positions. Mr. McCoy served as a member of the Board of Directors of Rancher Energy, Inc. and BPI Energy Corp. from 2007 to 2009.

Stanley Osborne

Mr. Stanley De Jongh Osborne is Independent Director of Global Geophysical Services Inc. Mr. Osborne currently serves as a Managing Director of Kelso & Company, L.P., a private equity firm (“Kelso”). Mr. Osborne joined Kelso in July 1998. He was an associate at Summit Partners from May 1996 to June 1998 and an associate in the private equity group and an analyst in the financial institutions group at J.P. Morgan & Co. from September 1993 to May 1996. Mr. Osborne is a Director of Custom Building Products, Inc., Hunt Marcellus, LLC, Logan’s Roadhouse, Inc., and Traxys S.a.r.l. Mr. Osborne previously served as a Director of CVR Energy, Inc., CVR Partners, L.P., and Shelter Bay Energy, Inc. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Dartmouth College.

Damir Skerl

Mr. Damir S. Skerl is Independent Director of Global Geophysical Services Inc. Mr. Skerl currently serves as President of Skerl & Associates, LLC, an engineering consulting company, a position he has held since December 1998, and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Smart Drilling and Completion, Inc., a company that owns proprietary drilling technology ("SDCI"), positions he has held since March 2000. From August 1998 to December 1999, Mr. Skerl served as Senior Vice President, Oilfield Operations for Baker Hughes Inc. From December 1990 to August 1998, Mr. Skerl served as Executive Vice President of Western Atlas International, Inc., and as President of Western Atlas Logging Services from August 1992 to August 1998 and as Executive Vice President of Western Atlas, Inc. from August 1996 to August 1998. Prior to that time, Mr. Skerl worked at Western Geophysical, where he served as Senior Vice President of International Operations and as a technical manager of seismic data processing. Mr. Skerl is a director of PrimeGeoscience, Inc. Mr. Skerl received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Geophysics and Geology of Mineral Resources from University of Zagreb, Croatia.

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