Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Gabriel Walton

President

Associate Professor
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado

Romain Prioul

Vice President

Scientific Advisor-Geomechanics
Schlumberger-Doll Research Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Rita Sousa

Treasurer

Associate Professor
Civil and Urban Engineering
New York University – Abu Dhabi

Andrew Bunger

Immediate Past President

Associate Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Eric Gustafson

Executive Director

American Rock Mechanics Association
Westminster, Colorado

Members

Zach Agioutantis

Chair, Department of Mining Engineering
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Chloé Arson

Professor
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

Egor Dontsov

Chief Scientist
ResFrac
Denver, Colorado

Tryana Garza-Cruz

General Manager
Itasca Consulting Group, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Omid Mahabadi

President & CEO
Geomechanica, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mengsu Hu

Career Research Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California

Shawn Maxwell

Geophysical and Geomechanical Advisor
Ovintiv
Woodlands, Texas

Richard Schultz

Orion Geomechanics
Cypress, Texas

Kan Wu

Associate Professor
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

International Liaison – Middle East

Osman Hamid

Saudi Aramco
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia