Sheldon Erikson (born September 23, 1941) is a Supervisory Director for Frank's International, NV, a Dutch based oilfield services firm with operational headquarters in Houston.
He is Chairman of the Board (since May 2, 1996) and was President and Chief Executive Officer from January 1995 to April 2008 of
Cameron. He is a member of the Board of Directors of
Rockwood Holdings, Inc., the
National Petroleum Council,
American Petroleum Institute
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, and the
Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association.
Previous positions
He was Chairman of the Board (from 1988 to April 1995) and President and Chief Executive Officer (from 1987 to April 1995) of the
Western Company of North America Prior to that, he was President of Joy Petroleum Equipment Group of Joy Manufacturing Company. Before joining Joy, he served as President of the Oilfield Services Group of
NL Industries, Inc., as well as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of
Digicon, Inc., Group Vice President of the Plastic and Chemicals Group of
Hoover Universal Corporation and General Manager of the Mining Products Department of
General Electric Company
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.
Education
He studied
engineering
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and
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...
at the
University of Illinois
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and has an
M.B.A.
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from the
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
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.
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American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies
Living people
1941 births
Harvard Business School alumni
University of Illinois alumni