Oklahoma City’s Gulfport Energy Corporation has appointed Al Bledsoe to the board of directors effective the first of the year.
He is a former executive with PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited which is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms.
“We are very pleased to welcome Al to our Board as a new independent director,” commented David M. Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Al is an experienced finance and public accounting executive with strategic planning, managerial and leadership expertise, having led the development and execution of market and sector strategies for clients in the energy, mining and utilities industries for PwC.
At PwC, Bledsoe served in various senior roles, including as global leader for PwC’s Energy, Mining and Utilities Industries Assurance and Business Advisory Services Group, a member of the firms senior leadership team, Regional and Office Managing Partner and as audit and senior relationship partner on some of the firm’s largest energy industry clients.
Bledsoe currently serves as director and audit committee chair of Crestwood Equity GP LLC (general partner of Crestwood Equity Partners LP, a natural gas and crude oil logistics master limited partnership holding company). In addition, he serves as director and audit committee chair of SunCoke Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SXC).
Following Bledsoe’s appointment, Gulfport’s Board is now comprised of seven directors, six of whom are independent and four of whom have joined the Board in the last three years.