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Published on: 4/9/2009
Last Visited: 4/12/2009
W. Matt Ralls(1)
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Since January 2009, Mr. Ralls has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Rowan Companies, Inc.
Previously, Mr. Ralls served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of GlobalSantaFe Corporation, an international contract drilling company, from June 2005 until the completion of the merger of GlobalSantaFe with Transocean, Inc. in November 2007.
Mr. Ralls also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for GlobalSantaFe from November 2001 to June 2005.
Previously, he was Global Marine Inc.’s Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from January 1999 to November 2001 when Global Marine merged to become GlobalSantaFe.
He also served as Global Marine’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from 1997 to January 1999.
Mr. Ralls served as Vice President of Capital Markets and Corporate Development for The Meridian Resource Corporation, an independent exploration and production company, before joining Global Marine.
Prior to joining The Meridian Resource Corporation, Mr. Ralls served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and a director of Kelley Oil and Gas Corporation, an independent exploration and production company, from 1990 until 1996.
Mr. Ralls spent the first 17 years of his career in commercial banking, mostly at the senior loan management level, with three large Texas banks, including NationsBank in San Antonio, Texas.
James D. Woods. Mr. Woods has served as our director since June 2001.
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Our board of directors has determined that each of Messrs. McShane, Ralls, Watts, Whaling and Woods is an independent member of the board under the listing standards of the NYSE and has no material relationship with us that would impair such director’s independence.