H. Keith Jennings is a global business leader with over 30 years of experience built on a corporate finance foundation in multinational enterprises, both public and private, including 2 years as a lecturer in Advanced Corporate Finance at Rice University in Houston Texas.
Mr. Jennings has held finance positions of increasing responsibility and complexity across the pharmaceuticals, genomics, chemicals, fuels and energy services industries. Appointed in 2022, Mr. Jennings is currently a Non-Executive Director and the Chair of the Audit Committee for 5E Advanced Materials Inc. (Nasdaq: FEAM). FEAM engages in the exploration and development of borates and lithium deposits primarily in the United States.
Mr. Jennings is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Weatherford International (Nasdaq: WFRD), a global energy services company. He served in the role from September 2020 to August 2022. He was also a member of a newly formed executive team that transformed and further right-sized the post-bankruptcy company, refinanced and relisted the company that was severely impacted by the macro-outcomes of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prior to WFRD, Mr. Jennings served as the Executive Vice president and Chief Financial Officer of Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. (Nasdaq: CLMT), a leading producer of engineered fuels and specialty hydrocarbon products. He served successively during 2016 to 2019 as Vice President, Finance and Vice President & Treasurer of Eastman Chemical Company, a global specialty chemical company.
From 2009 to 2016, he was Vice president and Treasurer of Cameron International Corporation, a global oil field equipment manufacturer. Earlier, he served in a variety of senior treasury and finance roles with Alghanim Industries, PepsiCo Inc., Ingersoll-Rand and Monsanto Company.
Mr. Jennings holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (B.Comm) from the University of Toronto and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) through the institute of Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario Canada.
