382 employees as of 2025/FY (-19.7% YoY). Revenue per employee is total revenue divided by headcount — a rough productivity gauge, not a per-worker pay figure.
Felipe Bayon has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since June 2025. Mr. Bayon is recognized as one of the most effective energy executives in Latin America with more than three decades of accomplishments in the international oil and gas industry. From 2017 to 2023, Mr. Bayon was CEO of Ecopetrol S.A. (NYSE:EC), one of the most important energy groups in Latin America, where he led 18,000 employees, oversaw production of approximately 700,000 boepd and revenues of over US$30 billion, and delivered record financial, operational, and safety results. He is a proven and disciplined dealmaker who brought Ecopetrol S.A. into the unconventional Permian Basin in the United States in partnership with Occidental Petroleum Corp., a project that grew from 0 to 150,000 bpd gross in 4 years, into the Brazilian ultra-deep water pre-salt play in partnership with Shell, as well as into a leading position in the Latin American power transmission sector and focused investments in renewable energies, water management, and nature-based climate solutions.
Marcela Vaca has been a member of our board since July 2022, following ten years of distinguished service as the Company's General Director and Chief Asset Officer (2012-2022). With over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry across Latin America, Ms. Vaca brings deep knowledge of the Company's operations, strategy, and values. As General Director, she led GeoPark's growth into one of Colombia's leading independent E&P companies, with a strong focus on operational efficiency, ESG performance, and stakeholder engagement. She has played a central role in advancing the Company's diversity and inclusion agenda and continues to promote female leadership as a driver of long-term value. Prior to joining GeoPark, Ms. Vaca was President of the Hupecol Group, where she led major field developments and executed key M&A transactions. She also served in senior legal and corporate affairs roles at GHK Company Colombia. She chaired the board of the Colombian Oil Association (ACP) and was a board member from 2010 to 2021. She is a Certified Corporate Director both in Colombia (Instituto Colombiano de Gobierno Corporativo) and in the United States (Harvard Business School), and currently serves on the boards of Corficolombiana, Fundacion Juanfe, and Women in Connection. Marcela holds a Law degree with a specialization in Commercial Law, both from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, and an LL.M. Summa Cum Laude from Georgetown University as a Fulbright Scholar.
James F. Park co-founded the Company in 2002, and served for 20 years as our Chief Executive Officer until his retirement effective 30 June 2022, and has been a member of our board of directors since May 2002. He founded, built the team, and led the strategy and growth of GeoPark from its small footprint at the southern tip of South America into becoming one of the leading oil and gas companies operating across Latin America today. He continues to serve as Vice Chairman of our board of directors, Chair of the Strategy and Risk Committee and a member of the Technical and SPEED/Sustainability Committees.Mr. Park has more than 50 years of experience in all phases of the upstream oil and gas business, with a record of achievement in the acquisition, technical operation, and management of international projects and teams across the globe - including projects in North America, Central America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East - with focus on people, communities, and the environment. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Geophysics from the University of California at Berkeley and previously worked as a research scientist focused on earthquakes and tectonics at the Geophysics Laboratory of the University of Texas. Mr. Park has a degree in environmental management from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is a member of the board of directors of GoodRock LLC. He is a former board member of the humanitarian non-profit SEE (Surgical Eye Expeditions) International, and the service and advocacy non-profit Girls, Inc. He is a member of the AAPG and SPE, and has lived in Latin America since 2002.
Agustina Wisky is GeoPark's Chief People Officer, responsible for enriching and promoting an organizational culture based on trust, teamwork, continuous improvement, mutual respect, and diversity. Mrs. Wisky has been with the Company since it was founded in 2002, and she created and has led the People department for over 15 years, guided by the principles of attracting, motivating and developing the best professionals, and ensuring the comprehensive wellbeing of staff and their families. She previously held the position of Performance Director at GeoPark. Before joining GeoPark, Mrs. Wisky worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and AES Gener in Argentina. Mrs. Wisky is a Public Accountant and has a master's degree in Human Resources from the IAE Business School of the Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thanks to Mrs. Wisky's leadership in the implementation of inclusion and diversity best practices, GeoPark won the Equipares Silver Award in 2020, which is given by the Government of Colombia with technical support from the United Nations Development Program. GeoPark was also included in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) in 2022, which evaluates the performance of listed companies that are committed to transparency in gender reporting.
Brian F. Maxted has been a member of our board of directors since July 2022. He is a proven oil and gas explorer, private equity entrepreneur and public company leader in the upstream E&P business, with a global track record of significant basin and play discoveries over 30 years. He spent the first part of his professional life from the late 1970s working for BP in locations including Europe, Africa, North America and South America, where he was involved in the discovery of Colombia's giant Cusiana and Cupiagua oil fields in the early 1990s. During the second half of his career from the mid-1990s through the 2010s Mr. Maxted held various exploration leadership roles for US-based independents, including Triton Energy and Hess Corporation. In 2003, Mr. Maxted became a founding partner and later the CEO/CXO and Board Director of Kosmos Energy. Mr. Maxted retired from Kosmos in 2019 and established Limatus Energy Advisory Limited to provide strategic counsel to upstream E&P companies. In addition, he led the formation of Lapis Energy - now Lapis Carbon Solutions Holdings LP, a company focused on carbon solutions in the US Lower 48, where he currently serves as Chair of the Board. Mr. Maxted is also a member of the board of directors of Triple 7 Energy Inc. Brian holds a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Sheffield and a master's degree in organic geochemistry and petrology from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Carlos E. Macellari has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2022. Dr. Macellari has more than 35 years of experience in oil and gas exploration, development and operations across South America, North America, Europe and Africa. He has held senior technical and executive positions at Tecpetrol, Repsol, Hocol, Benton Oil & Gas, Enron Oil & Gas International and Shell. As Director of Exploration and Development at Tecpetrol, he led the subsurface team responsible for the development of Fortin de Piedra, the largest gas-producing field in Argentina, and for the discovery and development of multiple oil fields in Colombia. At Repsol, he served as Worldwide Director of Geology, leading exploration activities resulting in significant discoveries in Libya, Algeria, Brazil (Pre-Salt), the Gulf of Mexico, Venezuela and Peru. Dr. Macellari has authored more than 50 technical publications and has lectured internationally. He is the founder of the Journal of South American Earth Sciences and currently serves as professor for postgraduate studies at Universidad Nacional de La Plata and as President of AAPG Latin America. He previously served on the boards of several companies within the Techint Group and currently serves as an independent director of Olympic Peru Inc. He is also the founder and managing director of Andes Energy Consulting. Carlos holds a bachelor's degree in geology from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina, and a master's degree and a PhD in geology from Ohio State University.
Sylvia Escovar has been a member of our board of directors since August 2020 and was appointed as Chair on June 6, 2021. She is one of the most respected and admired business leaders in Latin America. An economist by training she has had a long and prestigious career in both the public and private sectors, having worked for the World Bank, the Central Bank of Colombia and the Colombian National Department of Planning. Previously, she served as Deputy Secretary of Education and Deputy Secretary of Finance for Bogota's government as well as Vice President of Finance of Fiduciaria Bancolombia. Ms. Escovar was CEO of Organizacion Terpel S.A., the leading fuel distribution company in Colombia that operates also in Panama, Peru and the Dominican Republic from 2012 until December 2020. In 2014, Sylvia was named the top businessperson of the year by Portafolio, Colombia's leading financial daily. In 2018, she received the National Order of Merit for spearheading private sector support for peacebuilding and reconciliation in Colombia. In 2020, she was the only woman on the Corporate Reputation Business Monitor's list of Colombian leaders with the best reputation to rank in the top 10. Sylvia's other board memberships include Organizacion Terpel S.A., Grupo Bancolombia, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota S.A. E.S.P., Grupo Energia Bogota S.A. E.S.P. and Organizacion Corona S.A.. Sylvia has a bachelor's degree in economics from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.
Jaime Caballero Uribe has served as our Chief Financial Officer since January 2024. He has more than 25 years of industry and finance experience, including senior positions in large corporations as well as in start-ups and entrepreneurial businesses. Until August 2023, Mr. Caballero was Group CFO at Ecopetrol, the largest corporation in Colombia and one of the 400 largest companies in the world where he helped the management team achieve various performance records, including the delivery of more than US$20 billion in growth financing and debt refinance. During his tenure, he was recognized by the Institutional Investor publication as one of the top three sector CFOs in Latin America. Previously, he held multiple positions at BP plc over 17 years, where his most recent appointment was CFO for the Brazil Region, which includes Colombia, Uruguay and Venezuela. Mr. Caballero holds a degree in Law from Universidad de Los Andes, an MBA in Energy Business from Fundacao Getulio Vargas, and certificates in CFO Excellence from Wharton and Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies from Stanford. Mr. Caballero currently serves as a board member of Agricola Cerro Prieto S.A.
Robert A. Bedingfield has been a member of our board of directors since March 2015. Until his retirement in June 2013, he was one of Ernst & Young's most senior Global Lead Partners with more than 40 years of experience, including 32 years as a partner in Ernst & Young's accounting and auditing practices, as well as serving on Ernst & Young's Senior Governing Board. He has extensive experience serving Fortune 500 companies, including acting as Lead Audit Partner or Senior Advisory Partner for Lockheed Martin, AES, Gannett, General Dynamics, Booz Allen Hamilton, Marriott and the US Postal Service. Since 2000, Mr. Bedingfield has been a Trustee, and at times an Executive Committee Member, and the Audit Committee Chair of the University of Maryland at College Park Board of Trustees. Mr. Bedingfield served on the National Executive Board (1995 to 2003) and National Advisory Council (since 2003) of the Boy Scouts of America. From 2013 to 2023, Mr. Bedingfield served as board member and Chairman of the Audit Committee of NYSE-listed Science Applications International Corp (SAIC). Robert holds a degree in Accounting from the University of Maryland and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Martin Terrado has served as our Chief Operations Officer since July 2022. He previously served as our Director of Operations since he joined GeoPark in August 2018. Mr. Terrado has more than 29 years of experience in the oil industry and has held leadership roles in asset development, operations and planning. Prior to joining GeoPark, Mr. Terrado worked for Petrolera Argentina San Jorge and Chevron in different international operations, including Argentina, the United States and Venezuela. He led Chevron technical and operations teams of heavy oil assets in eastern and western Venezuela with production of 160,000 and 100,000 bopd respectively. Prior responsibilities include waterflooding, CO2 flooding and setting up Chevron's operated unconventional Wolfcamp program in Midland, TX. Mr. Terrado has a degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) and an MBA from the IAE Business School at the Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires. He is an active member and mentor at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and is President of the board of Arpel. Mr. Terrado has published several papers at SPE and has US Patent #8175751 on EOR/IOR screening and performance prediction systems.
Constantin Papadimitriou has been a member of our board of directors since May 2018. He is a respected and successful international investor and businessman, with more than 30 years of investment experience in global capital markets and in resource and industrial projects and was an early investor in GeoPark. Mr. Papadimitriou was for 18 years the Head of General Oriental Investments S.A., the Investment Manager of the Cavenham Funds, as part of the Cavamont Group founded by the Late Sir James Goldsmith. During his tenure at the Cavamont group, Mr. Papadimitriou was initially CFO, then Head of the Private Equity Portfolio representing the group on the boards of associated companies including investments in the oil and gas, mining, real estate, and gaming sectors (including Basic Petroleum, a Nasdaq-listed Guatemalan oil and gas company). He is now a founding partner of Diorasis International, a company mainly focusing on investments in Aquaculture, and also chairs the Greek Language School of Geneva and Lausanne. Mr. Papadimitriou is currently a non-executive board member of Cavamont Holdings Limited, Capland S.A. and Tellco AG. Constantin holds an Economics and Finance degree and a post-graduate Diploma in European Studies from Geneva University.
Gabriel Gilinski has been a member of our board since March 2026. He is a senior executive within the Gilinski Group and brings deep experience in financial services, banking and board-level governance, with a track record supporting the Group's growth initiatives and portfolio expansion through hands-on involvement and strategic oversight across its businesses. He has been Director of JGB Financial Holdco Inc. since 2010 and has served on the boards of Banco GNB Paraguay (2013-2025), Banco GNB Peru (2013-2022), Banco GNB Sudameris S.A. in Colombia (2018-2022), and Corporacion Financiera GNB Sudameris (2019-2022). He has also served as a board member of Grupo Nutresa S.A. since 2022 and was previously a board member of Grupo Sura S.A. (2022-2024). Earlier in his career, he served as Executive Vice President of JGB Bank (2008-2010) and worked as a financial consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in Santiago, Chile. Mr. Gilinski holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Rodrigo Dalle Fiore has served as our Chief Exploration and Development Officer since February 2025. He has worked in the oil and gas industry in Latin America for over 20 years. Since joining the Company in 2023 as Inorganic Growth, Unconventional & Portfolio Director he has been key in identifying and materializing strategic opportunities for the Company, the most important of which was the Company's entry into Vaca Muerta, the fastest growing play in Latin America today. Prior to joining GeoPark, in his capacity as New Energies Corporate Manager at Ecopetrol, Mr. Dalle Fiore was responsible for positioning the group as a regional leader in the energy transition, and he was also on the board of directors of Ecopetrol E&P's international subsidiaries in the Permian basin, Gulf of Mexico and offshore Brazil. His earlier positions at Ecopetrol were Corporate VP of Development and Enhanced Recovery Development Manager. Mr. Dalle Fiore began his career at Pan American Energy as a well and facilities operator before eventually becoming Operations Manager at the Cerro Dragon field. A Chemical Engineer from the University of Cordoba in Argentina, he holds a Global Executive MBA from IESE Business School, a specialization in Oil and Gas Reservoirs from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Patagonia San Juan Bosco University in Argentina, and a specialization in Oil and Gas Technology from the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA).
From SEC filings, via Futu. Compensation is total reported pay for the most recent fiscal year on file, not base salary alone.
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