Rocky has more than 40 years in energy working for Shell and as an independent consultant. He has held senior positions in seismic acquisition, interpretation, exploration, development, and research globally. He pioneered expert innovation in areas of DHIs, WAZ, sub-salt imaging, 4D monitoring, and DAS. Rocky has taught courses in integrated exploration evaluation, risking, and economics. A 42-year member of SEG, he has served on the Board of Directors’ of SEG, SEAM, and as Chair of the SEG Foundation. Rocky holds Bachelor’s & Master’s degrees in physics including a PhD in Nuclear Physics from The Ohio State University.

Shipeng Fu currently serves as the vice chair of the Board of Directors for the SEG Foundation. Previously, she was the chair at the Society of Petroleum Engineering Golden Gate Section (SPE GGS) from 2019 to 2022. In recognition of her outstanding service, Shipeng was honored with a regional service award in 2019, and under her leadership, the Golden Gate section received the SPE regional recognition award in 2021. Beyond her active involvement in professional associations, Shipeng is passionate about giving back to her community. She dedicates her time to supporting PiE (Palo Alto Partners in Education) and volunteering for various community initiatives.

As an engineer and entrepreneur, Shipeng has played a pivotal role in founding or co-founding startups in both the energy and biotech industries. Holding a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, she began her career as an engineer in a Shell Oil in Houston, Texas and later transitioned to a smaller energy startup in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Neal Rodney Goins is a retired executive from ExxonMobil Corporation whose career included positions as a research scientist, operations business manager, president of an overseas affiliate, and ultimately corporate vice president of Global International Government Relations. Raised in Latin America where his father worked for USAID, he received his undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University and a PhD in geophysics from MIT.  During the course of his career, he has worked in the United States, Nigeria, and Mexico; was a member of the seismology team for the Viking mission to Mars; and served on a number of Boards including the United States Department of State Advisory Committee on Economic Policy and as president of American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico.  He has served on both school and hospital boards and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Neal and his family have lived in Wellesley for 14 years.  Since retirement, he has been active on various non-profit and philanthropic positions, including: public member (hearing officer) of the U.S. Department of State Promotion Boards; public member / hearing officer for the Massachusetts Board Bar of Overseers; chair of the Town of Wellesley Advisory (Finance) Committee; elected representative for Wellesley Town Meeting; commissioner for the Wellesley Town Historical Commission; vice president of the Wellesley Historical Society; and chair of the Middlebury College Parents’ Committee among other roles.  He enjoys bicycling, reading, and singing.

Bill is an independent geophysical consultant after a 40-year international career with Chevron. He has been SEG’s Distinguished Instructor, Distinguished Lecturer, Life Member and past president of the SEG.

Presently, Bill’s engagement with SEG is as a Board director of the SEG Foundation and in the SEG Advanced Modeling Corporation’s business development and project design.

Mohammed Badri is currently an executive vice president and Board advisor to Woodland Energy Services Company based in Saudi Arabia. From October 2021 to June 2023, he held the position of vice president of technology and strategic partnership Middle East with John Crane Company – SMITHS Group. From March 2020 through September 2021, he worked as an independent consultant. During his employment with SLB between 1990 and 2020, he held several key technical and management positions in the Middle East and Far East regions including China, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE. He published and presented more than 75 papers and he holds 42 U.S. Granted Patents. He holds a Master’s and PhD degrees in geophysics from U.S. universities.

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For two decades, Hilary has been a forward-thinking leader in the subsurface energy industry as a creative who bridges technical expertise with strategic deal-making.  Her time at Vector Seismic produced a transformative multi-client library spanning 3000+ square miles in a premier basin. This collaborative initiative helped operators optimize more drilling benches as well as aide in drilling efficiency, ultimately leading to a strategic acquisition by Schlumberger. In the last five years, Hilary has expanded her interests beyond oil and gas to encompass emerging energy markets. This expansion provides connections to decision makers that will benefit the SEG Foundation.

Moving forward, Hilary’s energy, passion, and track record of closing are key skills that she brings to the SEG Foundation board to help meet future goals in a transitioning energy industry.

As a geoscientist with more than 25 years of experience, I have a comprehensive understanding of geology; subsurface interpretation; well planning and operation; and exploration geophysics. My skills in geology and seismic and well log interpretation, subsurface quantitative; and pore pressure integration have led to the successful delivery of technically robust wells on complex projects. Recognized for exemplary leadership and collaboration, I have consistently demonstrated a commitment to operational safety and technical integrity while actively volunteering and contributing to esteemed organizations like SEG, AAPG, and Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) by SPE.

Arthur C.H. Cheng is the past president of SEG (2024-2025), and an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  Prior to that, he worked at MIT, Western Atlas, Halliburton, and The National University of Singapore.  Arthur had served as the editor in chief for Geophysics in 2023. He was named an Honorary Fellow by The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2022, received the Dick Baile Exemplary Service Award from SEG in 2024, and the Honorary Membership Award from SEG in 2021.

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Paul Cunningham is cofounder and — since 2001 — managing partner of Amigos Energy Advisors, LLC, a worldwide geoscience consultancy. After earning his SB and SM in earth and planetary sciences from MIT (1983, 1984, respectively), Paul began his career as a geophysicist at Sohio Petroleum Co. in the areas of seismic data acquisition and processing. In 1987, Paul joined Mobil Oil Corporation where he spent 13 years in a variety of positions including as a research geophysicist implementing new land and borehole seismic data acquisition technologies, and as an international ventures exploration geophysicist. Throughout his career, Paul was fortunate to work in a variety of countries including Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Canada, Algeria, Kazakhstan, India, and the United States of America.

Paul, an SEG member since 1983, has been active since the early 90s in helping re-shape the SEG into a global geophysical society. He was a long-time member of the Global Affairs Committee representing Latin America, has served on the SEG Council as District 6 (Latin America) rep., served on the SEG Board of Directors from 2016–2019 as director-at-large, and is currently part of the Geoscientists without Borders (GWB) Committee, the Latin America Advisory Committee, and the Meetings Reviews and Planning Committee (MRPC), which he chaired from 2007 to 2010. Paul was honored with the SEG Lifetime Membership in 2004. He has participated in Executive Director Search Ad-Hoc committees in 2001, 2010, and 2019 and co-chaired the 6th International Conference of the Brazilian Geophysical Society (SBGf) in Rio de Janeiro (August 1999). He is also a member of EAGE, AAPG, SBGf, and the Dallas Geophysical Society.

Born and raised in Brazil, Paul is fluent in Portuguese and English and proficient in Spanish. He has also participated in other non-profit activities including Financial Committee of a large condominium community (350 units) and organizing events for the MIT Alumni Club of DFW which he also presided from 1999- 2001. Paul currently splits his time between living in the U.S. and in Portugal.

John Eastwood has been an SEG member since 1993. He graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1987 (BSc honors co-op physics) and from the University of Alberta in 1992 with a PhD in geophysics. Eastwood worked for ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil for more than 30 years. He started his career in research where he pioneered the use of active and passive seismic monitoring in oil sands. He led ExxonMobil research groups in quantitative geophysics, seismic imaging, and acquisition. Eastwood also spent time in ExxonMobil’s production company as geoscience manager for Canada East, and in exploration as manager pursuit and capture for Canada. He held company executive positions in technical and managerial realms as geophysics manager for seismic imaging/acquisition/full-waveform inversion (FWI), and as senior principal geophysicist. Eastwood led ExxonMobil’s resurgence into seismic imaging and FWI including the re-establishment of Exxon’s leading position in high-performance computing.

Eastwood was recognized in 1998 with the J. Clarence Karcher Award for outstanding contributions from a young geophysicist. He has received the Best Paper in The Leading Edge award (and Honorable Mention) as well as Best Paper from the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists. He has five patents and numerous publications.

Since 1993, Eastwood has been active in his volunteering for SEG, including with the Development and Production Committee/workshop chair (five years); The Leading Edge Editorial Board including chair (five years); SEG secretary treasurer and SEG Finance Committee/chair (four years); SEAM Board of Directors and chair (four years); SEG Executive Director Search Committee member; Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force member; and North American Regional Advisory Council chair (two years). He served as SEG President-Elect in 2023-2024 and is the 2024-2025 SEG President.

Raymond C. Farrell, a senior geophysical advisor at W&T Offshore, has been a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) since 1968. He served as Treasurer (1978–1979) and President (1982–1983) of the Geophysical Society of Houston, earning Life Member recognition in 1988. Farrell was general chairman of the SEG Convention in 1986, first vice president of SEG (1988–1989), and received a Best Presentation Award in 1975. A sustaining trustee associate of the SEG Foundation, he has been a director since 2017. Farrell is also a Deacon at his church and an active Boy Scout leader, earning the 2007 District Award of Merit.

Dr. Alan R. Huffman is a recognized technology and business leader with more than 40 years of experience in the energy industry, including 20 years of C-Suite experience. Dr. Huffman has worked in all aspects of energy exploration, production, research, and development and has broad experience working at the interface between industry, academia and government. He has worked for large energy companies in senior roles and has also built two companies from the ground floor into large enterprises.

Dr. Huffman’s formal education includes a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from Franklin & Marshall College in 1983, and a PhD in Geophysics from Texas A&M University in 1990. In 1986–87, he was privileged to perform the seismic earthquake hazard analysis for the successful proposal for the Superconducting Supercollider in Waxahachie, Texas. During his years at Texas A&M, he performed fundamental research involving the integration of rock mechanics, rock physics, and seismology to solve complex problems in fluid-rock interactions, natural rock deformation processes, and geologic hazards analysis. This research included experimental and theoretical studies in high pressure/high temperature rock mechanics including ultra-high pressure deep earth processes such as mantle convection, and shock wave research on deformation of silicates under extreme loading conditions that occur in nuclear blasts, meteor impacts and volcanic explosions. In 1986 to 1988, Dr. Huffman served as the executive secretary to the Geoscience Research Council for the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences. In 1989–1990, Dr. Huffman served as science manager of Deep Observation and Sampling of Earth’s Continental Crust (DOSECC), the U.S. Continental Drilling Program which was managed by Texas A&M University. In 1990, Dr. Huffman was recognized by the Association of Former Students and the Office of Graduate Studies at Texas A&M as the top doctoral researcher at Texas A&M for his ground-breaking research on shock waves in silicates and their application to mass extinction theory.

From 1990–1997, Dr. Huffman was employed by Exxon Corporation, where he worked as a technology expert on exploration and production projects in the United States, West Africa and the Far East, and was also actively involved in technology and software development. His technical areas of responsibility included pore pressure and fracture pressure prediction (global designated expert in this specialty), rock physics and physical properties analysis, specialized seismic data processing (2D and 3D, controlled amplitude and phase), direct detection of hydrocarbons using DHI and AVO technology, geophysical forward modeling and inverse modeling (inversion), velocity analysis and time-depth conversion. He also provided technical leadership and project management for global technology development programs in pore pressure and fracture pressure prediction, 3D AVO technology, seismic modeling, and software design, software development, software implementation and management of the Exxon Global Physical Properties Database (PHYPROPS). He also taught segments of the company’s exploration geosciences and drilling department training schools.

From 1997–2002, Dr. Huffman was manager of the Seismic Imaging Technology Center (SITC) with Conoco, Inc. In this role, he managed the geophysical technology division of Conoco with responsibility for worldwide technology development and technical services. He was also a member of the Upstream Finding Team (UFT), which allocated capital for the global exploration portfolio for the company. Dr. Huffman also managed the recruiting efforts for geoscience and engineering staff and also managed the company’s cooperative research interactions with the U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories including Los Alamos National Lab, Sandia National Lab, Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley, Idaho National Engineering Lab and The National Engineering and Technology Lab (NETL). During this time, he also worked with Conoco’s Washington D.C. office and with the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the development of cooperative R&D legislation that was ultimately enacted by Congress in the Omnibus Energy Bill of 2005, which grew into the Research Partnership To Secure Energy For America (RPSEA). Dr. Huffman also served as Conoco’s director on the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association and was one of Conoco’s directors to the U.S. Oil and Gas Association. Dr. Huffman was on the integration team for the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum in 2002.

Dr. Huffman was appointed as the Lyssa & Cyril Wagner Professor of Geology and Geophysics in the School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK in 2003 and 2004. In this role, he taught graduate level courses in advanced reservoir characterization that included the theory and application of seismic methods, rock physics, and rock mechanics to the practice of DHI and AVO analysis for hydrocarbon identification and the practice of pore pressure and fracture pressure prediction.

From 2003 until the 2011, Dr. Huffman was a co-founder and executive with Fusion Geophysical LLC and its subsidiaries. He built Fusion from a start-up company to an international business with over 80 employees and offices in six countries including Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Libya. At Fusion, his duties included executive leadership of the enterprise and direct supervision and management of all technical projects worldwide. At Fusion, he worked on technical projects in more than 40 countries including land, marine, and deepwater settings. During his tenure at Fusion, the company completed several acquisitions of companies with leading expertise in seismic processing, land statics analysis and advanced seismic imaging that put Fusion at the forefront of technology developments in these fields including advanced earth model building, velocity analysis and seismic analysis technologies.

From 2011–2014, Dr. Huffman was the chief technology officer of Sigma Cubed Inc, which was formed by the merger of Fusion Geophysical and four other companies into a new company with the financial support of Symphony Technology Group, a strategic private equity group based in Palo Alto, California. Sigma Cubed combined five companies that included expertise and technology in geology, geophysics, reservoir engineering, drilling engineering, completion and production engineering, geomechanics, wellbore geophysics, and microseismic monitoring (both active and passive). Each of the five companies that formed Sigma Cubed contained industry-leading expertise and technology that allowed Sigma Cubed to provide a high-level of expert support for clients worldwide. In 2014, Dr. Huffman stepped down from his executive position at Sigma Cubed and became a Consulting Partner with the company while he pursued fund raising for what became HighPeak Energy Partners LP. During his tenure as CTO, Dr. Huffman was actively involved in the development of new technologies for earth model building for seismic imaging and microearthquake analysis, advanced velocity analysis, and integration of well and seismic data for seismic imaging and seismic analysis.

From October 2017–present, Dr. Huffman has been the executive vice president and chief technical officer of HighPeak Energy Partners, LP (HPE) that was merged into HighPeak Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: HPK) in a 2020 SPAC business combination transaction. HPK is an oil and gas exploration and production company based in Fort Worth, Texas. At HPK, his duties involve management and oversight of the company’s exploration program, and integration of technology into HPK’s drilling and field development programs. He is also actively involved in corporate planning and fund raising with the CEO and President of HPK.

Dr. Huffman is active in industry and professional affairs, having chaired numerous technical conferences and having served on organizing committees for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), American Association of Drilling Engineers (AADE), American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He was the recipient of the 2004 Robert H. Dott Sr. Memorial Award from the AAPG for the publication of AAPG Memoir 76 (Pressure Regimes in Sedimentary Basins and Their Prediction), and also received the 2002 Best Paper Award from the SEG for his publication on the origins of shallow water flows. Dr. Huffman has published numerous papers in refereed journals and articles in international publications, and 40 abstracts. He has nine U.S. patents in the field of geophysics, including four patents in the field of pore pressure and fracture pressure prediction and three patents for the integration of gravity and magnetic inversion with 3D seismic imaging for exploration and production with special focus on imaging below salt diapirs.

Dr. Huffman is also a Certified Professional Geoscientist (license #3352) in the State of Texas and has been retained as an expert witness for several major industrial accident litigations. From 2011–2012, he was the lead testifying expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice for Phases I and II of the Multi-District Litigation 2179 (MDL 2179) “Oil Spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010,” which was tried before the Honorable Carl Barbier, U.S. District Judge in the U.S. District Court for The Eastern District of Louisiana. His testimony was instrumental in the final judgment of the court of gross negligence against BP for the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Huffman was also a lead expert and trial witness for the Bayou Corne Sinkhole Litigation in Louisiana and the lead trial expert for the plaintiffs in the Aliso Canyon Gas Storage Facility Blowout Litigation in California which settled in early 2022.

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Joseph M. Reilly started his exploration career with Mobil and has many years of experience in addressing key geoscience-based challenges around the world. Early in his career, he sat wells both as a geologist and geophysicist in regions stretching from the offshore U.S. East Coast to Morocco and from the North Sea to Equatorial Guinea.   

He has been directly involved in seismic campaigns throughout the world and has been fortunate to participate in numerous exploration successes, as well as some disappointments. He holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Rochester and a master’s degree in geology/geophysics from Virginia Tech.    

Reilly has authored/coauthored hundreds of papers and presentations on a wide range of geophysical applications. While at Mobil, then ExxonMobil, he held technical and management positions in research and applied research, eventually becoming ExxonMobil’s chief research geoscientist.  

He is a long-time member of the Geophysical Society of Houston, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and SEG and is a licensed geophysicist in the state of Texas. In 2011, SEG honored him with Life Membership. He represented SEG on the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Technical Committee from 2006–2012, serving as OTC general technical chair in 2012. He also served as SEG representative on the International Petroleum Technology Conference Board from 2010–2021, including board chairman from 2017–2019. More recently, he was vice president on the SEG Board of Directors from 2021–2022. Reilly also has represented the Geophysical Society of Houston on the SEG Council, was a member of the IMAGE ’24 Steering Committee, and is a mentor in the SEG EVOLVE program. In addition, he is an SEG Foundation Trustee Associate and a member of the SEG Foundation board.   

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Martin is an active member of the SEG, serving as continuing education instructor for “Planning and Executing a Marine 3D Seismic Survey” course (1997–2000) and volunteering on various committees (Scholarship Committee 2002–2009, Field Camps Grant Program Committee 2010–2013, SEG Finance Committee 2022–present).  He joined Geophysical Pursuit in 2004 as geophysical manager, responsible for business development technical support and ensuring their multi-client programs benefit from appropriate geophysical technologies.  After graduating in 1988 from the University of Texas with a geophysics BSc, he spent 16 years at Western Geophysical in a variety of technical and managerial positions.

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David Bartel is currently a Director Emeritus of the SEG Foundation having previously served on the Board from 2015 to 2023, including Chair in 2023. David has been a member of SEG since 1979 when he started his studies in geophysics at the University of Utah, followed by a Ph.D. in Engineering Geoscience from the University of California at Berkeley. David worked for Chevron in exploration and technical geophysics for 32 years before retiring in 2020.

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