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Kent P. Watts Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Kent Watts is Chairman of the Board President and Chief Executive Officer of Hyperdynamics.
Mr. Watts is responsible for managing Hyperdynamics' strategic direction. A long-time entrepreneur Mr. Watts' association with Hyperdynamics began in 1996 when an information technology services company he had founded in 1988 MicroData Systems Inc. was acquired by Hyperdynamics in an internet company reverse merger. He assumed his current positions at Hyperdynamics in 1997. A certified public accountant Mr. Watts also held the additional role of Chief Financial Officer of the company until November 2005.
Following the technology industry downturn in 2001 Mr. Watts engineered the acquisition of SCS Corporation a company that provided seismic data management and transcription services and re-aligned company's technical capabilities from information technology to energy. The following year he worked with management of SCS and initiated the company's oil and gas exploration program offshore Guinea. In 2004 he structured an acquisition that led to the establishment of HYD Resources Corporation which conducts oil production activities onshore Louisiana. In 2005 and 2006 he orchestrated the activities that led to the signing of a new 2006 production sharing contract with the Republic of Guinea. In 2005 he secured Hyperdynamics' listing on the American Stock Exchange.
Mr. Watts earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston. Before founding MicroData Systems he was an external auditor with the public accounting firm of Peat Marwick Mitchell and Company now KPMG.
He is the founder of American Friends of Guinea established in March 2006 as a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization to provide medical and other relief to the Republic of Guinea. | 