Company: GPOR
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001213900-25-024139
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Company: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: PRE 14A
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 Mr. Rucker joined Gulfport as the Senior Vice President of Operations in March 2023. On February 24, 2025, he was promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He joined Gulfport from Javelin Energy Partners where he previously served as Vice President, Production Operations starting in July 2022. Prior to joining Javelin, Mr. Rucker served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of 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. Mr. Rucker started his career at Chesapeake Energy Corporation from 2007 to 2016, serving in a variety of leadership and engineering roles in field operations, reservoir engineering, and planning. Mr. Rucker graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Marietta College and with a Master of Business Administration from Texas Christian University. He serves on the Boards of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association and the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma. |

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| EXECUTIVE OFFICERS |

| NAME            | POSITIONS AND EXPERIENCE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Michael Sluiter 
 Age: 52         | Senior Vice President, Reservoir Engineering since December 2018                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 Mr. Sluiter joined Gulfport from Noble Energy, Inc., where he held various engineering positions from January 2012 to November 2018, including Business Development Engineering Advisor, Appalachian Reservoir Engineering Supervisor, and Permian Basin Business Unit Manager. Mr. Sluiter has over 18 years of experience in unconventional resource development, reservoir engineering, subsurface development, business development and acquisitions, as well as leadership skills, which he developed 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 received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia. |
| Lester Zitkus   
 Age: 59         | Senior Vice President, Land since January 2017                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 Mr. Zitkus joined Gulfport as Vice President of Land in March 2014. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Zitkus served as Vice President of Land for Ches