Biography

Mr. Smith was appointed as a Forum director in June 2025 and currently serves as a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation & Human Capital Committee. He has over thirty years of experience, with fifteen years in distributed, industrialized services supporting the energy industry, and fifteen years in auditing and consulting in the United States and internationally. Mr. Smith served as Chief Financial Officer of Helmerich and Payne (HP), a U.S. land drilling contractor, from June 2018 until his retirement in August 2024. He served as a Senior Advisor to H-P’s executive team from August 2024 through December 2024. In his role as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Smith was responsible for Finance and Treasury, Investor Relations, Risk Management, Accounting, Tax and Supply Chain. Prior to joining H&P, from 2009 until its merger in 2017, Mr. Smith served in several leadership positions including Vice President of Corporate Services, Chief Accounting Officer, and culminating in the role of Chief Financial Officer for Atwood Oceanics, an international offshore drilling company. From 1993 to 2009, Mr. Smith held various auditing and consulting professional services roles, including with Arthur Andersen and PricewaterhouseCoopers. During that time, he led attestations for public audit clients and consulted on organizational structure and process efficiency for administrative functions. Mr. Smith is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration from Baylor University.

The Board of Directors selected Mr. Smith to serve as a director because of his significant professional experience leading large finance and accounting organizations, and overseeing attestations for international publicly traded companies. In addition, Mr. Smith possesses extensive knowledge of the oil and gas industry, particularly oilfield services.