Mark A. Vander Ploeg serves as Lead Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Vander Ploeg is the Lead Director of the Company and was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company in connection with the closing of the Merger in February 2015. Mr. Vander Ploeg previously served as a director of Legacy Dawson from March 2014 until February 2015. Mr. Vander Ploeg has over 35 years of investment banking experience, providing advice to major companies on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, long-term strategy and governance. Until his retirement in 2011, Mr. Vander Ploeg was a Senior Managing Director of Evercore Partners. Prior to Evercore Partners, Mr. Vander Ploeg was Vice Chairman of Investment Banking for Merrill Lynch & Co., where he worked from 1995 to 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Vander Ploeg was a Managing Director of Salomon Brothers and Head of the firm’s San Francisco investment banking business. Mr. Vander Ploeg formerly served as a director of Okabena Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, which is the investment and business company for the Dayton Family, founders of Target Corporation. He was a member of that Board’s Investment Committee and was Chair of the Compensation & Personnel Committee. Elsewhere, Mr. Vander Ploeg serves as a director of the Spencer Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, and chairs its Investment Committee, and also serves as an associate member of Stanford University’s Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). Mr. Vander Ploeg has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, and a B.A. from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, where he is a former trustee and served as Board Chair from 2000 to 2006.
Mark Ploeg is 68, he's been the Lead Independent Director of Dawson Geophysical since 2018. There are 3 older and 9 younger executives at Dawson Geophysical. The oldest executive at Dawson Geophysical Company is William Barrett, 79, who is the Non-Executive Director.
Ploeg's mailing address filed with the SEC is 866 HERMOSA WAY, , MENLO PARK, CA, 94025.
Over the last 10 years, insiders at Dawson Geophysical have traded over $213,317 worth of Dawson Geophysical stock and bought 107,344 units worth $433,516 . The most active insiders traders include William J Barrett, Herbert M Gardner és James W Thomas. On average, Dawson Geophysical executives and independent directors trade stock every 135 days with the average trade being worth of $11,966. The most recent stock trade was executed by Brothers, Llcwb Acquisition... on 14 June 2023, trading 8,895 units of DWSN stock currently worth $19,836.
dawson geophysical company provides onshore seismic data acquisition and processing services in the united states and canada. it acquires and processes 2-d, 3-d, and multi-component seismic data for its clients ranging from oil and gas companies to independent oil and gas operators, as well as the providers of multi-client data libraries. the company’s 2-d method collects seismic data to generate a single plane of subsurface seismic data; and 3-d method creates a volume of seismic data, which produces precise images of the earth’s subsurface. as of december 31, 2014, it operates eight to ten seismic crews consisting of crews in the united states and canada. dawson geophysical company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in midland, texas with additional offices in houston, plano, denver and oklahoma city with eagle canada located in calgary.
Dawson Geophysical executives and other stock owners filed with the SEC include: