Mark S

Mark has extensive executive experience in the remote communications and oilfield services industries.  He most recently was the CEO, President and a board member at RigNet (NASDAQ: RNET), a leading global provider of remote communications solutions to the oil and gas industry. Over his nine-year tenure at RigNet, he took a troubled, but promising, $50 million private equity backed business to a successful IPO, and then led it transformationally as a small cap public company to over a $1 billion valuation.

He has served in executive and management roles at Halliburton Company, Reliant Energy, United Technologies and Stratos Global Corporation.  Mark serves on the boards of Geoforce; Boys and Girls Country of Houston; and the Center for Christianity in Business at Houston Baptist University.  Named a 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year region winner and national finalist, he completed United Technologies’ Executive Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business and attended Stanford Law School’s Directors’ College. Mark is the recipient of the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award in Energy from the Houston Technology Center.

He holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

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