Houston Chapter In-Person Event | Houston PDA Governance Dialogues

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Houston Chapter In-Person Event | Houston PDA Governance Dialogues

Holy Rosary Parish
3617 Milam Street
Houston, TX 77002

Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM CDT

Category: Houston

02:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Pacific)
03:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Mountain)
04:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Central)
05:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Eastern)

Schedule

4:00-4:30 pm Registration
4:30-5:30 pm Program
5:30-6:30 pm Networking

Registration

$25 Member Registration
$35 Non-Member Registration
Free Guest of Member Registration

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Overview

Fostering Healthy Relationships Between Boards and Executive Teams
The Houston Chapter of the Private Directors Association® is pleased to offer a dialogue exploring relationships between boards and executive teams. Part of strong governance is maintaining healthy relationships and open, constructive communication channels. In this conversation we will explore those relationships and challenges with perspectives from multiple viewpoints: a CEO of a private company, board members, and a leader in connecting boards with executives.

Houston PDA members will have opportunities to engage with these thought leaders through an open question session and during follow-up networking time.

Thank you to our National and Gold Chapter Sponsors!

Panelists

Mary D. Bass

Based in Houston, Mary Bass has more than 20 years of extensive search experience, mainly focused on executive assignments for board directors and broader Energy, Financial Services, Industrial and Life Sciences companies globally. Mary works closely with Women Corporate Directors, a global organization that believes corporations with more women on boards that come from diverse populations will outperform their competitors in bringing higher shareholder value. Mary has served on and chaired the firm's global partner nominations committee. She is also a recipient of the Lou Rieger Quality Award for client service.

Deep talent experience

Mary specializes in working with organizations undergoing significant business organizational change, including not-for-profit. She also works with prominent private equity groups, helping them recruit senior executives and board members for their portfolio companies as well as experienced investment professionals for their firms.
Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Mary gained direct investing experience with Triad Ventures, one of the leading private equity firms in Texas, where she participated at the board level to help build the management teams necessary to take companies public. Her work with emerging growth companies spanned industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, distribution, software, speciality retail, technology and consumer.
Mary is the prior president of the Houston Venture Capital Association and is on the steering committee for the Dallas Private Equity Forum. She has served on the international board of the Association for Corporate Growth and as the organization's international membership chairman.

Mary was formerly director of the Texas Lyceum Association and the First Tee of Greater Houston. She is currently serving on the San Jacinto Girl Scout Council. Mary has also served and chaired the Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation and was a director of the Houston Golf Association. She is a graduate of Mississippi State University, earning both B.S. and M.B.A. degrees with an emphasis on corporate finance.

Andrew Bruce
Founder and CEO
Data Gumbo

Andrew Bruce is the Founder and CEO of Data Gumbo, the industrial smart contract network company. Andrew created the company in 2016 after spotting an opportunity to eliminate a sizable cost inefficiency between an oil supermajor and one of its suppliers. Under his leadership, Data Gumbo is now an award-winning disruptive innovator, as recognized in the Forbes 2020 Energy Awards and 2021 ADIPEC Awards, with industrial customers around the world. Additionally, Andrew was also named a 2020 finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Gulf Coast Area.

Prior to Data Gumbo, Andrew was the COO for MHWirth, an oil & gas drilling equipment OEM where he supervised global operations. Previous to this position, he was VP of Controls at NOV. During Andrew’s tenure at NOV, he founded the NOVOS product, a first-of-its-kind semi-autonomous drilling system, which he holds a joint patent for on rig automation. With years of experience as an IT consultant and serial entrepreneur, Andrew earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is currently a member of IADC and SPE.

Janeen Judah
Independent Director

Janeen is an experienced public and private company director; NACD Governance Fellow and Certified Director.

She was the 2017 President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and is passionate about petroleum technology, ESG, innovation, and mentoring women engineers and STEM. Janeen is a frequent public speaker on technology, risk, and career development."

Moderator

Ken Tubman
Chairman of the Board
SAExploration

Ken Tubman has over 35 years in energy technology with ConocoPhillips, Veritas DGC, Marathon Oil and ARCO. He has spent his career bringing leadership and vision to teams developing and commercializing technology. He has held senior roles including Vice President, Subsurface, Vice President Technical Innovation and Senior Vice President Exploration Services. These roles have included large teams, with both internal and external members, budgets of multiple hundreds of millions of dollars, complex contract negotiations for external services and partnerships, acquisitions and divestitures, technology licensing and Corporate Venture Capital efforts. Current consulting efforts include providing interface between internal teams and external consultants to assure focus and control.

He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of SAExploration, Chairman of the Advisory Board for Cloudstream Medical imaging, and as an advisor to other start up companies in addition to providing consulting services and on digital transformation and technology delivery.

Tubman earned a PhD in geophysics from MIT and holds a BSc in physics from University of Massachusetts.