Richard Clark has over 30 years of experience in deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, primarily in the Gulf of Mexico. He most recently served as President of the Gulf of Mexico business unit for Kosmos Energy. Before that, he was founder and President of Deep Gulf Energy, a private equity-backed venture that successfully developed multiple deepwater projects before being sold to Kosmos Energy in 2018. Richard was also a founder of Mariner Energy, one of the first independent operators in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. He began his career as an offshore production engineer at Shell Oil. Richard holds a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
