Leadership | Newpark Resources Inc.

Matthew S. Lanigan

President and Chief Executive Officer

Matthew Lanigan joined Newpark in April 2016 as President, Newpark Industrial Solutions, and was appointed as our Chief Executive Officer in March 2022. From April 2014 to June 2015, Mr. Lanigan served as a Managing Director of Custom Fleet Services in Australia for GE Capital Corporation, a financial services unit of General Electric. From September 2010 to March 2014, he served as Commercial Excellence Leader in Asia Pacific for GE Capital. Previous to September 2010, Mr. Lanigan held various executive positions in marketing and sales for GE Capital Corporation and spent his early career with ExxonMobil as a Drilling & Completions Engineer and an Offshore Production Engineer and Marketer for Crude & LPG. Mr. Lanigan received his Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and his MBA from the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne and is certified as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Gregg S. Piontek

Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Gregg Piontek joined Newpark in April 2007 as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining Newpark, Mr. Piontek was Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Stewart & Stevenson LLC, where, as a member of the executive team, he directed all start-up and purchase accounting functions related to the purchase of assets from Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc. and served as lead executive financial officer for their $150 million public debt offering. Previously, from 2001 to 2006, he held the positions of Assistant Corporate Controller and Controller, Power Products Division at Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Piontek served in various financial roles at General Electric, CNH Global N.V. and Deloitte & Touche LLP. Mr. Piontek is a Certified Public Accountant and received a Master of Business Administration from Marquette University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Arizona State University.

Lori Briggs

Corporate Vice President and President of Industrial Solutions

Lori Briggs joined Newpark in October 2017 as Senior Director, Business Transformation & Integration, was promoted to the position of Vice President, Marketing for Newpark Industrial Services in January 2021, and then promoted to her current role of President, Industrial Solutions in September 2021. Ms Briggs has progressed her career by blending her expertise in marketing, business development, pricing, and finance to optimize team performance and drive profitability across multiple platforms. Prior to joining Newpark, she held leadership roles with progressing responsibility in various divisions of GE (including Oil & Gas, Capital, and Aviation) for over 25 years, most recently holding the position of Global Pricing Leader for GE Oil & Gas, an energy subsidiary. Ms. Briggs received her Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Statistics/Mathematics from Miami University and her MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

M. Celeste Frugé

VP - General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary

Celeste Frugé joined Newpark in April 2008 as Senior Corporate Counsel and was promoted to the position of Vice President - General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary in May 2023. Since joining Newpark in 2008, Ms. Frugé has served in various legal roles of increasing responsibility, including the role of Associate General Counsel from January 2011 to February 2020 and as the Company’s Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary since February 2020. In her capacity as Deputy General Counsel, she was responsible for managing and overseeing various global legal matters including complex commercial matters, acquisitions and divestitures, litigation and pre-litigation disputes, joint ventures and other legal issues including but not limited to data privacy, information governance, regulatory matters, and tax matters. Prior to joining Newpark, Ms. Frugé practiced law at Winstead, PC where she was a member of the Corporate, Securities/M&A practice group and at Stibbs & Burbach, PC in The Woodlands, Texas. She received her undergraduate degree from Loyola University and earned her J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.

Tasha M. Murphy

Vice President, Human Resources

Tasha Murphy joined Newpark in December of 2019 and became the Vice President of Human Resources in September of 2020. Prior to joining Newpark, Ms. Murphy worked for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and most recently led the HR organization for Mozambique LNG, a $20 billion dollar capital project that achieved Final Investment Decision while Ms. Murphy served in this role. In her eight years at Anadarko, Ms. Murphy held leadership positions across HR, supporting the Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer, and managed various HR Business Partner and Center of Excellence teams. Prior to Anadarko, she worked for Alvarez & Marsal Business Consulting, LLC for eight years as a consultant and regional Operations Manager. Ms. Murphy has extensive global experience across many areas in HR as well as living abroad experiences in China, England, and Italy. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas A&M University with her Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Marketing. She holds several senior professional HR designations and proudly serves as a board member for Texas A&M’s MS Marketing Program.

David A. Paterson

Corporate Vice President and President of Fluids Systems

David Paterson was appointed as Vice President of the Company and President of Fluids Systems in July 2019. From October 2018 to July 2019, Mr. Paterson served as President - Pressure Pumping of Weir Oil and Gas. From December 1995 to October 2018, he served in varying roles for Schlumberger including President - Artificial Lift, President – Geoservices, and Vice President - Drilling Group Asia. During this time, he spent 17 years working directly in the Drilling Fluids, Completion Fluids, Solids Control and Waste management sector in Dowell Drilling Fluids and the M-I SWACO Joint Venture. He held numerous assignments of progressing responsibility in this space including: Well Site Fluids Engineer working on land, Offshore and Deepwater rigs, Customer In-House Fluids Representative, Field Service Manager, Product Line Manager for Completion Fluids, Country Manager, Asia Pacific Vice President, Eastern Hemisphere Senior Vice President, and Global Product Line Vice President. Mr. Paterson holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Offshore Engineering from The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland.

As our Company and business strategy evolves, the Environmental, Social, and Governance Committee of our Board of Directors annually reviews the skills and competencies of our Board members, ensuring that the Board composition evolves with the changing business and maintains relevant knowledge as well as a diversity of viewpoints.

Each of our board members routinely receive over 95% support in annual shareholder elections.

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Rose M. Robeson

Chairperson of the Board

Rose Robeson joined our Board of Directors in January 2018 and has served as the Chairperson of the Board since 2023. Ms. Robeson served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DCP Midstream GP, LLC, the general partner of DCP Midstream GP LP, which is the general partner of DCP Midstream Partners, LP, a publicly-traded limited partnership, from May 2012 until her retirement in March 2014. Ms. Robeson also served as Group Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DCP Midstream, LLC from January 2002 to May 2012. Prior to her appointment as Chief Financial Officer of DCP Midstream, LLC, Ms. Robeson was the Vice President and Treasurer. Prior to joining DCP Midstream, LLC, Ms. Robeson held a variety of executive finance positions at Total Petroleum and Kinder Morgan.

In December 2020 Ms. Robeson was appointed and currently serves on the Williams Company, Inc. Board of Directors as an independent director, as well as a member of the Board's Compensation and Management Development Committee, and the Environmental, Health and Safety Committee. Since July 2014, Ms. Robeson has served as a member of the Board of Directors of SM Energy Company and is currently serving as Audit Committee Chair and as a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. From May 2017 to March 2019, Ms. Robeson served as a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee Chair of AMGP GP LLC, the general partner of Antero Midstream GP LP, a publicly traded limited partnership. In March 2019, AMGP completed a merger to form Antero Midstream Corporation, where Ms. Robeson served as a member of the Board of Directors, Audit Committee, Conflicts Committee and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee until June 2022. From June 2014 until June 2016, Ms. Robeson served as a director of American Midstream GP, LLC, the general partner of American Midstream Partners, LP, a publicly traded limited partnership. From October 2015 until December 2017 (when Nabors Industries Ltd. completed its acquisition of Tesco Corporation), Ms. Robeson served as a director of Tesco Corporation, an upstream oilfield services company.

Matthew S. Lanigan

President and Chief Executive Officer

Roderick A. Larson

Chief Executive Officer, Oceaneering International, Inc.

Roderick A. Larson joined our Board of Directors in March 2014. Mr. Larson currently serves as Chairman of the Environmental, Social and Governance Committee and as a member of our Audit and Compensation Committees. Beginning in May 2012, Mr. Larson served as Chief Operating Officer of Oceaneering International, Inc. and effective February 2015, was named President of the company. In May 2017, Mr. Larson was appointed to serve as a Director and President and Chief Executive Officer of Oceaneering International, Inc. From August 1998 until May 2012, Mr. Larson held varying positions of increasing responsibility at Baker Hughes, Inc., most recently as President, Latin America. While at Baker Hughes, Inc., Mr. Larson served as Vice President, Operations for the Gulf of Mexico and Deepwater Business Development Manager. From 1990 until 1998, he served as operations manager and field engineer for Western Atlas, Inc. (which was acquired by Baker Hughes) in the United States and Venezuela.

Michael A. Lewis

Retire Interim President and Senior Vice President, Electric Operations, Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation

Michael A. Lewis joined our Board of Directors in January 2021 and serves as a member of Newpark’s Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Environmental, Social and Governance Committee. Mr. Lewis has over 34 years of electric operations experience, having served as both Interim President as well as Senior Vice President, Electric Operations of Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation (“PG&E”). In these roles, Mr. Lewis oversaw all aspects of PG&E’s Electric Operations, including the company's wildfire prevention and response efforts, longer-term grid resiliency initiatives, system-wide vegetation management work and emergency preparedness and response efforts. Mr. Lewis joined PG&E in 2018 and retired from PG&E in December 2020. Prior to joining PG&E, Mr. Lewis served as Duke Energy's Senior Vice President and Chief Distribution Officer, responsible for distribution operations across six states. Mr. Lewis previously served in increasingly more senior roles in electric transmission and distribution, including as Chief Transmission Officer at Duke Energy. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University. He attended both the Advanced Management Program at Duke University and the Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.

In January 2021, Mr. Lewis was appointed and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Portland General Electric Company as an independent director, as well as a member of the Board’s Audit Committee and Finance Committee. In October 2021, Mr. Lewis was appointed and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Osmose Utilities Services, Inc.

Claudia M. Meer

Former Chief Investment Officer and CFO, AlphaStruxure

Claudia M. Meer joined our Board in March 2022. Ms. Meer has extensive cleantech and energy transition experience, most recently serving as Chief Investment Officer and CFO, of AlphaStruxure, an EaaS joint venture between The Carlyle Group and Schneider Electric, formed to develop and fund clean energy infrastructure. Prior to AlphaStruxure, she was the CEO of Dalkia U.S. and ran the public-private partnership and clean energy development and investment groups at Clark Construction Group. Ms. Meer began her career at J.P. Morgan and has significant experience in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. She holds a Masters in International Finance and Management from Harvard University and a Bachelors in International Economics and Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania. She actively volunteers in advisory capacities with The Penn Fund Executive Board and Maryland Clean Energy Center.

John C. Mingè

Former Chairman and President, BP America

John Mingé joined our Board of Directors in December 2017. Mr. Mingé retired as an employee of BP America, Inc. in December 2019 where he most recently served as chairman of a study by the National Petroleum Council into carbon capture utilization and storage technologies. From February 2013 to May 2018, he served as the Chairman and President of BP America, Inc., a subsidiary of BP plc (NYSE: BP), comprised of BP business units involved in exploration and production, refining, chemicals, supply and trading, pipeline operations, shipping, and alternative energy. During his 37-year career with BP, Mr. Mingé held a variety of executive and engineering posts around the globe, including assignments as head of BP Alaska, head of BP's Asia Pacific Exploration and Production Unit, president of BP Indonesia, and president of exploration and production for BP Vietnam and China. Mr. Mingé began his career with Standard Oil of Ohio in Cleveland, Ohio as a drilling research engineer and subsequently served in varying positions of increasing responsibility throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Southeast Asia. Mr. Mingé currently serves as an executive committee and board member of the Washington State University Foundation.

Donald Young

Managing Member of Race Rock Group LLC

Donald Young joined our Board in March 2022. Mr. Young serves as the Managing Member of Race Rock Group LLC, a private holding company focused on non-control investments in private companies, industrial and commercial real estate, hedge funds, private debt, venture capital and other alternative investments that he founded in May 2007. Since November 2020, Mr. Young has served as Chairman of the of Board of Directors of Structural and Steel Products, Inc., a leading distributor and manufacturer of transportation, telecommunications, utility and transmission infrastructure products. Mr. Young served as Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer of Hoover Ferguson, Ltd., an international specialty rental, logistics, technology and service provider of tanks and containers from October 2008 to July 2019 and as a director of Hoover Ferguson, Ltd. from October 2007 to October 2021. Prior to joining Hoover, Mr. Young held various positions in private equity at Citigroup Venture Capital, Sciens Capital and investment banking at Bank of America and Prudential Securities. Since January 2020, Mr. Young has served as a Director of Gulf Capital Bank, Inc. and as a member of Gulf Capital Bank, Inc.’s Loan Committee since spring 2021. From November 2019 to March 2021, Mr. Young also served as Executive-in-Residence with Warburg Pincus LLC in their Industrial and Business Services Group.

Board Communications

The Board of Directors have established a process for securities holders to send communications to one or more of its members. Communications should be sent by letter addressed to the member or members of the Board to whom the communication is directed, care of the Corporate Secretary, Newpark Resources, Inc., 9320 Lakeside Blvd., Suite 100, The Woodlands, TX 77381-1211. All communications will be forwarded to the Board member or members specified.

Auditors
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Certified Public Accountants
Houston, TX