Mr. Jones is a native Houstonian and graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Houston where he served as chairman of the Dean's Leadership Advisory Board. He is currently the President of the Drilling, Downhole and Subsea businesses of Forum Energy Technologies. He was formerly President and Chief Executive Officer of Forum Oilfield Technologies which was merged into Forum Energy Technologies in August 2010. Forum Oilfield Technologies, which specialized in the design, manufacture and installation of specialized products and equipment used primarily in the drilling industry.

 

Prior to coming to Forum he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Hydril Company which was sold to Tenaris S.A. in February 2007 for $2.1B. Hydril distinguished itself as the industry leader specialized in products enabling drilling the worlds deepest and most challenging wells. During his tenure the company executed a successful turnaround, became public through an IPO, held a secondary stock offering paid off $80m in debt and paid dividends to shareholders exceeding $180m. Before joining Hydril, Charles served as Director of Subsea Business for Cooper Cameron Corporation where he developed the global subsea production business. He is responsible for engineering and installation of numerous deepwater subsea production systems, holds several patents and has 30 years of energy industry experience.