Houston, Tx., USA - February 3, 2014, Houston, Tx., USA - Bristow Group, a provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry, announced that William E. Chiles, president and CEO, will retire from those positions at the company’s annual meeting of shareholders on July 31, 2014.
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Mr. Chiles is chief executive officer and president of Bristow Group Inc.
Prior to joining Bristow, Mr. Chiles served as executive vice president and chief operating officer for Grey Wolf, Inc.
Prior to his tenure at Grey Wolf, he served as president and chief executive officer of Chiles Offshore, Inc. until its acquisition in 2002 by ENSCO International Incorporated, at which time he was appointed vice president of Business Development.
Until 1997, he was senior vice president of drilling operations for Cliffs Drilling Company, following its acquisition of Southwestern Offshore Corporation in 1996, a company which Chiles founded in 1992 and served as its president and chief executive officer.
In 1977, Mr. Chiles co-founded Chiles Drilling Company, which then became Chiles Offshore Corporation, and was subsequently acquired by Noble Drilling in 1994.
Prior to 1977, he served in a number of roles with Western Oceanic, Inc., including vice president for domestic operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mr. Chiles is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Petroleum Land Management and earned a MBA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
He will be succeeded by Jonathan E. Baliff, Bristow’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Baliff joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer in October 2010.
Prior to joining Bristow, Mr. Baliff was Executive vice president, strategy, at NRG Energy since May 2008, where he led the development and implementation of NRG’s corporate strategy as well as acquisitions and business alliances.
Prior to joining NRG, he was managing director in Credit Suisse’s Global Energy Group, where, since 1996, he advised energy companies on merger and acquisition assignments and project and corporate financings.
Mr. Baliff started his business career at Standard & Poor’s Corp. and then J.P. Morgan’s Natural Resources Group. ■