Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE: HLX) announced certain changes
within its executive management team consistent with the company’s long
standing succession plan, effective June 5, 2017. Erik Staffeldt, who
has served as Helix’s Vice President – Finance and Accounting since July
of 2015, has been promoted to the position of Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer. Tony Tripodo, who has served as Helix’s
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since June of 2008,
will be transitioning to the position of Executive Vice President and
Senior Advisor. In his new role Tony will be responsible for assisting
Owen Kratz, Helix’s President and Chief Executive Officer, in continuing
to develop the long term business and financial strategy of the company.
Tony will continue to remain involved in the company’s financial
planning and in generally assisting with the orderly transition of some
of his former responsibilities as Chief Financial Officer.
In connection with these appointments, Owen Kratz, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Helix, stated, “Erik has earned the confidence of
the board and the executive management team and has demonstrated the
ability to take on increasing responsibilities since joining Helix in
2009. In addition, Tony’s demonstrated capabilities in managing the
financial affairs of the company and his intimate knowledge of the
business make him well suited for the new role we have asked him to
perform.”
About Helix
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is
an international offshore energy services company that provides
specialty services to the offshore energy industry, with a focus on well
intervention and robotics operations. For more information about Helix,
please visit our website at www.HelixESG.com.
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delays; our ultimate ability to realize current backlog; employee
management issues; complexities of global political and economic
developments; geologic risks; volatility of oil and gas prices and other
risks described from time to time in our reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including the Company's most
recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and in the Company’s other
filings with the SEC, which are available free of charge on the SEC’s
website at www.sec.gov.
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