W&T Offshore, Inc. announced that at its annual meeting of shareholders held on Monday, May 5, 2008 in Houston, its shareholders re-elected Tracy W. Krohn, J. F. Freel, Virginia Boulet, S. James Nelson, Jr. and Robert I. Israel to serve on the Board of Directors for one-year terms. Samir G. Gibara was elected to fill the board seat previously held by Stuart B. Katz, who chose to not run for reelection.
Mr. Gibara is the retired Chairman of the Board of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. He also served as CEO of Goodyear from 1996 through 2002. Mr. Gibara is a graduate of Cairo University and holds a M.B.A. from Harvard University. Mr. Gibara also attended the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He has served on the boards of directors of Goodyear, Sumitomo Rubber Industries, International Paper Company and Dana Corp.
"We welcome Sam Gibara and his vast experience with large public companies. As W&T continues to grow, Sam's expertise and knowledge in navigating new frontiers and his well rounded background will be extremely useful to our company," said Tracy W. Krohn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Upstream Who's Who
Samir Gibara is one of over 5,000 senior oil and gas contacts featured in the OilVoice 'Who's Who' directory. In addition to biographies of directors, non-executives and senior management, Upstream Who's Who also includes company contact details - including subsidiary offices. The directory is available to OilVoice subscribers or can be purchased as an Excel file or hard copy version.