Oklahoma City, Ok., USA - April 24, 2014, Oklahoma City, Ok., USA - Gulfport Energy Corporation, an oil and natural gas company, announced that Michael G. Moore has been promoted to CEO and has joined the board and J. Ross Kirtley has been promoted to COO.
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Mr. Moore joined Gulfport in July 2000 as its Chief Financial Officer and was appointed President of the Company in August 2013.
From May 1998 through July 2000, Mr. Moore served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Indian Oil Company. From September 1995 through May 1998, Mr. Moore served as Controller of DLB Oil & Gas.
Prior to that, Mr. Moore served as Controller of LEDCO, Inc., a Houston based gas marketing company. Mr. Moore received both his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance and his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Central Oklahoma.
Mr. Kirtley joined Gulfport in May 2013 and was appointed Chief Operating Officer for the Company's Ohio activities in September 2013.
In addition, Michael S. Reddin has been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors.
Additionally, Mr. Reddin brings upstream engineering and operations expertise, prior public company board experience and more than 30 years of energy industry experience. Mr. Reddin currently serves as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Davis Petroleum Corporation, an independent private oil and gas exploration, development, acquisitions and production company focused primarily in the onshore Gulf Coast and deep-water Gulf of Mexico.
Prior to joining Davis Petroleum in 2009, Mr. Reddin served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Kerogen Resources, Inc., an early-stage exploration and production company focused on the development of North American shale plays.
Before Kerogen Resources, he spent 2000 through 2008 at BP America Inc. focused in the development of its Gulf of Mexico assets, where he served as Vice President of Production, Vice President of Development and several other leadership roles. ■