With over 30 years of in-depth experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, Mr. Navarre is well placed to lead as President of Horton Wison Deepwater and as Chief Operating Officer of HortonGMC.  A Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Mr. Navarre has held various executive positions within the Wison group of companies, as well as at Global Marine Drilling before that.

A significant portion of Mr. Navarre’s expertise is in domestic and international offshore drilling with particular experience in managing frontier operations in both deep water and the Arctic.  He also has extensive experience in the design, engineering, construction, and international sales of gravity-based and floating platforms.

Mr. Navarre is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Marine Technology Society.  He and his wife are avid sailors, having spent two years cruising the Caribbean and US Atlantic seaboard.

A Chemical Engineering graduate from the University of Manchester in the UK, Mr. Harding has over 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry.  Mr. Harding is responsible for business development within both Horton Wison Deepwater and HortonGMC.  He is the founder of Genesis Oil & Gas Consultants which was acquired by Technip in 1988.  Mr. Harding relocated to Houston shortly afterwards and held various executive positions within Technip and its predecessors.

A current member of the board of directors of Gulf Island Fabrication, he was also the President of GL Noble Denton in the Americas before joining Ed Horton’s company last year.  He is a keen pilot and volunteers through the Angel Flight charitable organization to fly financially distressed patients in need of medical help to and from Houston.