Company: GPOR
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-008043
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Company: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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Matthew Rucker, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Rucker, 39, joined Gulfport as the Senior Vice President of Operations in March 2023. On February 24, 2025, Matthew Rucker was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He joined Gulfport from Javelin Energy Partners where he previously served as Vice President of Production Operations starting in August 2022. Mr. Rucker joined Javelin in July 2022 as the Vice President of Business Development. Prior to joining Javelin, Mr. Rucker served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer for Montage Resources Corporation following Montage’s successful business combination transaction with Blue Ridge Mountain Resources in June 2020. Prior to Montage, Mr. Rucker served as Vice President, Resource Planning and Development of Blue Ridge from 2016 to 2020. Prior to joining Blue Ridge, Mr. Rucker served as a Production Superintendent for Chesapeake Energy Corporation from January 2014 to October 2016, overseeing Chesapeake’s Utica Shale production. As a member of Chesapeake’s Eastern Division leadership team, Mr. Rucker focused on the safe and efficient optimization of production in the Utica Shale and led an operating team of over 45 employees. During his service at Chesapeake, Mr. Rucker held several engineering positions in the Marcellus and Utica Shale asset teams within reservoir, primarily focused on strategic joint ventures, divestitures, acquisitions and resource development planning. Mr. Rucker received his Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Marietta College and a Master of Business Administration in Energy from Texas Christian University. He serves on the Marietta College Industry Advisory Council and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Michael Sluiter, Senior Vice President of Reservoir Engineering

Mr. Sluiter, 52, joined Gulfport as the Senior Vice President of Reservoir Engineering in December 2018 from Noble Energy, Inc., where he most recently served as the Permian Basin Business Unit Manager. Prior to that role, he spent over 17 years developing his skills and expertise in unconventional resource development, reservoir engineering, subsurface development, business development/M&A, and leadership at Noble Energy, Santos Australia and Santos USA. Mr. Sluiter began his career as a wireline field services engineer for Schlumberger in Thailand. Mr. Sluiter is a graduate of the University