– CHILE, Santiago – GeoPark Limited (NYSE: GPRK), a leading independent Latin American oil and gas explorer, operator and consolidator with operations and growth platforms in Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Peru, announced the appointment of Mr. Michael D. Dingman as a new member of the Board of Directors of the Company, effective January 1, 2017.
Mr. Dingman is a respected and successful international investor, businessman and philanthropist, with more than 50 years of investment experience and an impressive track record of building companies and conglomerates in the U.S. and emerging markets. Mr. Dingman currently is Founder, President and CEO of the Shipston Group, an international private investment firm with diverse holdings around the globe.
In addition to a successful career on Wall Street as a partner of Burnham & Company, Mr. Dingman has been Chairman and Chief Executive or President of several major US-based industrial corporations, including Wheelabrator-Frye, Signal, AlliedSignal, the Henley Group and Fisher-Scientific. His energy investment experience includes working with the Liedtke family of Pennzoil at Pogo Producing Company and as an early investor of Sidanco, one of Russia’s largest oil companies, where he spearheaded the introduction of best management practices.
Mr. Dingman is a former director of Ford Motor Company (21 years), Time and then Time Warner (24 years), the Mellon Bank, Temple Industries, Temple-Inland, Continental Telephone and Teekay Shipping. He is the founder of the Michael D. Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, a center that fosters entrepreneurship and provides mentoring services to emerging growth companies around the world. He is a benefactor and former trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the John A. Hartford Foundation.
Mr. Dingman said: “I am pleased to be joining GeoPark’s Board of Directors and working with its management to support the Company’s exciting expansion. GeoPark has high quality assets, a strong team, a proven operational track record and a unique platform across Latin America, a region that is poised for outsized energy growth and development.”
Gerry O’Shaughnessy, Chairman of the Board of Directors of GeoPark, said: “We enthusiastically welcome Michael Dingman to our Board. We are fortunate to attract a businessman of such high caliber, who has such a big skill-set and deep experience. Mr. Dingman’s experience building international businesses as an investor, executive and director will be invaluable as GeoPark continues forward with our ambitious growth plans.”
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