Board of Directors
Mr. Morse has been a member of the Board since his appointment in May 2017 and has served as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board since June 2021. Mr. Morse served on the SEACOR Holdings board of directors from June 1998 to May 2017. Mr. Morse has been a managing director and senior portfolio manager of Morse, Towey and White, a wealth management unit of High Tower Advisors Inc., a Chicago-based firm of investment advisors since July 31, 2010. In addition, Mr. Morse served on the board of directors and on the audit committee of High Tower Advisors Inc. from July 31, 2010, until January 2018. Mr. Morse was a managing director and senior portfolio manager of UBS Financial Services, Inc., from October 2001 until July 2010. Mr. Morse was senior vice president-investments of Salomon Smith Barney Inc. of New York, an investment banking firm, and Smith Barney Inc., its predecessor, from March 1993 to October 2001. Mr. Morse sits on numerous philanthropic boards and is treasurer of the American Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Mr. Morse served as a director of Seabulk International, Inc., both before and following its merger with SEACOR Holdings in July 2005 until March 2006. In December 2015, Mr. Morse became a member of the board of managers of KGP Realty, a private residential property management company.
Mr. Gellert has served as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board since June 2017. Prior to the spin-off of the Company from SEACOR Holdings on June 1, 2017 (the “Spin-off”), Mr. Gellert served as the co-chief operating officer of SEACOR Holdings since February 23, 2015, and president of SEACOR Holdings’ Offshore Marine Services segment since July 2005. Mr. Gellert also held various financial, analytical, chartering and marketing roles with SEACOR Holdings since June 1992. Mr. Gellert is an officer and director of certain Company subsidiaries. Mr. Gellert serves as a member of the executive committee of International Support Vessel Owners Association, a member of the board of directors of Offshore Marine Service Association, a member of the executive council at Cohesive Capital Management, L.P., and previously served as president of the National Ocean Industries Association. Mr. Gellert graduated from Harvard College.
Mr. Regan has been a member of the Board since his appointment in May 2017. Mr. Regan served on the SEACOR Holdings board of directors from September 2005 to May 2017. Mr. Regan is co-founder and, since March 2002, senior managing director, of The Chartis Group, a management consultancy group offering strategic, operational, risk management, governance and compliance advice to U.S. healthcare providers, suppliers and payers. Prior to co-founding The Chartis Group in 2001, Mr. Regan served from March 2001 to December 2001 as president of H-Works, a healthcare management consulting firm and a division of The Advisory Board Company. From January 2000 through December 2000, Mr. Regan served as senior vice president of Channelpoint, Inc., a healthcare information services company. Mr. Regan also serves as a trustee of Hamilton College.
Ms. Persily has been a member of the Board since her appointment in April 2018. Since 2013, Ms. Persily has served on the board of directors of Investcorp Credit Management BDC, Inc., a NASDAQ listed business development company that invests in middle market companies, and as a member of its audit and nominating committees and as chair of its compensation and valuation committees. Since 2017, Ms. Persily has served on the board of directors of Runway Growth Finance Corp., a NASDAQ listed business development company that provides secured loans to early-stage growth and venture-backed companies in the U.S., and as chair of its audit committee, and member of its nominating and corporate governance committee and compensation committee until January 2025, and currently serves as a member of its audit committee. Since 2023, Ms. Persily has served on the board of directors of StepStone Private Credit Fund LLC, a non-exchange traded business development company that invests in various credit-related strategies, and as a member of its audit and nominating and corporate governance committees. Ms. Persily has a deep breadth of experience in the finance and capital market industries, having held various roles at Citigroup for nearly 10 years, including serving as the co-head of Citigroup’s leveraged finance group for over two years and head of acquisition finance prior thereto. Ms. Persily also formerly served as co-head of Leveraged Finance and Capital Markets at Nomura Securities. Ms. Persily holds a BA in Economics and Psychology from Columbia College and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Columbia Business School.
Mr. Miguel has been a member of the Board since June 2019. Mr. Miguel has been president and chief executive officer of Proyectos Globales de Energía y Servicios CME, S.A. de C.V. (“CME”) since 2012 and executive president of Helicópteros Bell de México, S. de R.L. de C.V. since 2009. Mr. Miguel has extensive finance experience having held various positions in the finance area of Banco Santander Mexico from 2000 until 2002. Mr. Miguel has served as an independent member of several boards of directors, including current memberships on the boards of the airline Volaris and Pure Leasing, positions which he has held since 2006. Mr. Miguel is also a member of the Customer Advisory Panel at Bell Helicopter, a leading company in helicopter manufacturing. Mr. Miguel holds a BA from Universidad Iberoamericana.
Ms. Young has been a member of the Board since September 2024. Ms. Young served in several leadership roles at Ernst & Young, most recently as a Senior Global Client Service Partner, until her retirement in 2021. Since December 2023, Ms. Young has served as a member of the board of directors and as the audit committee chair and member of the nominating and governance committee of Valo Health, Inc., a privately held technology company focused on using data and artificial intelligence to discover and develop therapeutics. Since January 2022, Ms. Young has served as a member of the board of directors of Accelus Inc., a privately held medical technology company, where she also has served as the chair of its audit and finance committee and as a member of its nominating and governance committee. From May 2022 until March 2024, Ms. Young served as a member of the board of directors, the audit and risk committee, and the compensation committee of Textainer Group Holdings Limited, a leading intermodal container lessor that was listed on the NYSE until the company was taken private in March 2024. Ms. Young also serves as a member of the audit and finance committees of the board of trustees for the Columbus Museum of Art, a member and finance chair of the board of directors of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre and for FringeArts in Philadelphia, and a member of the Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business advisory council. Ms. Young is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a BBA in Finance and Accounting from Texas Tech University.
