Company: TDDWW
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-038699
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Company: TIDEWATER INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: DEF 14A
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 career in 1996 with Derrick Offshore Ltd., which was a leading international shipbroker specializing in the offshore energy and subsea cable industries that merged with Pareto JGO Shipbrokers in 2014. Mr. Middleton has a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology from the University of Warwick in the UK, completed the Corporate Governance Program at UCLA in 2024 and graduated from the Executive Program at UCLA in February 2025.                                                                               | ​ |
| Samuel R. Rubio    | ​ | ​ |  65 | ​ | ​ | Mr. Rubio has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since March 2021, bringing over 30 years of experience in accounting at both operating division and corporate levels as well as the management of accounting organizations. Prior to his appointment, he served as our Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller since December 2018. From April 2018 until joining Tidewater, Mr. Rubio held the position of Senior Vice President—Chief Financial Officer for GulfMark Offshore Inc. (formerly NYSE: GLF), a company providing marine transportation services to the energy industry through a fleet of offshore support vessels, which was acquired by Tidewater in November 2018. He first joined GulfMark in 2005 as Assistant Controller, was promoted to Controller in 2007, promoted to Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer in December 2008 and then promoted to Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer in January 2012. Mr. Rubio has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Sul Ross State University and is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants. | ​ |

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COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS This section of our proxy statement discusses and analyzes our executive compensation philosophy and program in the context of the compensation paid to or earned for performance during the last fiscal year by our named executive officers. We refer to these executives as our “named executives” or “NEOs.” For fiscal 2024, our named executives were:

| ​ | Quintin V. Kneen                      
 President and Chief Executive Officer | ​ | ​ | ​ | Samuel R. Rubio                                                                
 Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer | ​ | ​ | ​ | David E. Darling                                     
 Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer | ​ | ​ | ​ | Daniel A. Hudson