Board of Directors
William (Bill) L. Transier
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Endeavour International Corporation
William L. Transier is chairman of the board of directors, chief executive officer and president of Endeavour International Corporation. He was named to his current position in September 2006. He was one of the original co-founders of Endeavour in 2004 and previously served as co-chief executive officer. Prior to forming Endeavour, Transier was executive vice president and chief financial officer for Ocean Energy, Inc. He began his career in public accounting with KPMG LLP, an international audit and business strategy consulting firm, where he rose to the title of partner and headed its energy practice. Transier is a director of Reliant Resources and Cal Dive International. He is a former chairman of the Natural Gas Supply Association, director of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, and served as chairman of the Texas Online Authority and Department of Information Resources appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry.
John N. Seitz
Vice Chairman
Endeavour International Corporation
John N. Seitz is vice chairman of the board of directors of Endeavour International Corporation. He was one of the original co-founders of Endeavour in 2004 and the strategist behind its focus on North Sea exploration. Previously, he served as co-chief executive officer of the company. Seitz spent most of his career in various executive and management roles at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, rising to the position of chief executive officer, chief operating officer and president. In 2000, the Houston Geological Society honored him as a “Legend in Wildcatting." Seitz began his career as a petroleum geologist with Amoco Production Company. Seitz is a Certified Professional Geological Scientist from the American Institute of Professional Geologists and a licensed professional geoscientist with the State of Texas. He serves as a trustee for the American Geological Institute Foundation and as a director of Input/Output Inc. and Elk Resources, Inc.
Thomas D. Clark, Jr.
Director
Endeavour International Corporation
Thomas D. Clark, Jr. was appointed in June 2006 to the board of directors of Endeavour International Corporation. Clark is the Edward G. Schlieder Distinguished Chair of Information Science at Louisiana State University and director of the DECIDE Boardroom, an executive decision research and development facility. He serves as vice chairman of the Louisiana Tobacco Settlement Corp., a member of the board of directors of Dynegy, Inc. and on the boards of several community organizations and three privately-held companies. Clark was previously dean of the E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University and Ourso Distinguished Professor of Business. He was also professor and research director at Florida State University and the Gage Crocker Outstanding Professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology where he served in the School of Engineering.
John B. Connally III
Director
Endeavour International Corporation
John Connally III has served as a director of Endeavour International Corporation and its predecessor company since 2002. Connally is chief executive officer of Pure Energy Group, Inc., a privately-held oil and gas exploration and production company, and president, chief executive officer and director of BPK Resources, Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company traded on the OTC Bulletin Board. He also is a principal in Graver Manufacturing Co., a private company that manufactures pressure vessels for the petrochemical and refining industry. For six years, he was a member of the founding board of directors of Nuevo Energy Company. He was formerly a partner of the law firm of Baker & Botts in Houston, Texas, specializing in corporate finance transactions in oil and gas.
Charles Hue Williams
Director
Endeavour International Corporation
Charles Hue Williams was appointed in April 2007 to the board of directors of Endeavour International Corporation. Hue Williams serves as a governance consultant for Lambert Energy Advisory Limited where he was a partner and currently serves as a director. He has served as a director for Investec Henderson, Crosthwaite Securities, Kleinwort Benson Limited and Kleinwort Benson Securities Limited. He was a member of the London Stock Exchange for nearly 30 years.
Nancy K. Quinn
Director
Endeavour International Corporation
Nancy K. Quinn was elected in March 2004 to the board of directors of Endeavour International Corporation. Quinn is a principal of Hanover Capital LLC, a privately-owned advisory firm that she co-founded in 1996 to provide financial and strategic services primarily to clients in the energy, utility and natural resources industries. She has an extensive background in investment banking, formerly associated with The Beacon Group, LP. (now a part of JP Morgan Chase) as executive director and Kidder, Peabody & Co. as co-head of natural resources and energy investment banking. She was a director of DeepTech International, a diversified energy company traded on the OTC market from 1995 to 1998, and Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas Company, an exploration and production company traded on the New York Stock Exchange, from 1999 to 2001.
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