Rodney Eads is currently a director of NYSE NOW Inc. (chair, Audit Committee). He also provides due diligence/advisory services to energy services and private equity firms with expertise in enterprise risk management, and serves as an expert witness in E&P litigation. Eads is an active investor in early-stage technology companies. He serves as director on three nonprofit boards: Sam Houston Area Council BSA (previous chairman), Boys and Girls Country (Advisory Council), and the NACD Texas TriCities Chapter. He is a NACD Board Governance Fellow and an NACD Certified Director.

Eads’ career has been focused on the upstream energy business with deep expertise in onshore and offshore drilling, HSE, and major shipyard construction projects. He was with Exxon for 20 years providing engineering, business planning and project analysis, and operations management of E&P activities worldwide. Following his Exxon service, he served as executive officer with two publicly traded (NYSE) energy service companies: Diamond Offshore (SVP) and Pride International (EVP/COO). These positions included P&L, HSE, and regulatory compliance responsibility for global operations. During his career, Eads has managed operations in 27 countries with global workforces as large as 14,000 employees, operating budgets of $1 billion per year, and capital projects exceeding $3 billion. As a previous executive officer, and current public board director, he has deep expertise in SEC reporting/compliance, corporate strategy, M/A evaluations, M/A integration, ERM, pay/performance programs, ESG issues, and asset rationalization efforts including public company spin-offs and private equity sales. He served five years as a private equity board member for Nautronix UK LTD.

Eads served for 10 years on the API’s Executive Committee for Drilling/Production, which approves industry standards, and has been active in the SPE and IADC (served on Executive Committee) throughout his career.

He served as an adjunct professor at Rice University for nine years, teaching courses in upstream energy, as well as a judge of the Rice Business Plan Competition for six years.