With more than 30 years of experience with Transocean, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron Phillips Chemical, Sherry Richard brings experience in exploration and production strategy, mergers and acquisitions, information technology (IT) and cybersecurity, profit and loss (P&L), human resources (HR), operations, and more.

Currently, Richard serves on the board of Gulf Island Fabrication as the chair of the nominating and governance committee and a member of the audit and compensation committees. She served as a member of the supervisory board for SBM Offshore and served as the chair for remuneration matters. She participated on the audit committee, focusing on IT oversight and cybersecurity. Additionally, Richard served as an executive professor at Texas A&M University from 2015 to 2017, re-vamping and leading the graduate-level Global Human Resources Management class.

At Transocean Ltd., she served as senior vice president of HR and IT, an active leadership position that made her a member of the executive team and an active contributor at all board meetings. In this role, she materially contributed to meeting merger-synergy goals and played a key part in directing the integration with GSF. She also served as the crisis management chair for five years, including during the Macondo incident (also known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill).

Richard also held a variety of roles including manager of corporate planning and manager of San Juan Basin with full P&L responsibility for Phillips Petroleum (now ConocoPhillips). As general manager of the San Juan Basin, she delivered $75 million of net income with natural gas production peaking at 500 million cubic feet per day.

Richard holds a bachelor of science and master of business administration from Murray State University as well as cybersecurity certificates from the Harvard Extension School and Carnegie Mellon’s CERT division. Richard is an active member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and serves on the Texas TriCities Chapter board.