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DIAMONDBACK ENERGY, INC. ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENTS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MIDLAND, Texas, April 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Steven West, Chairman of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FANG)
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[{"type":"text","content":"MIDLAND, Texas, April 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Steven West, Chairman of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FANG) (\"Diamondback\" or the \"Company\"), is pleased to announce that effective April 3, 2020, the Company increased the size of Diamondback’s Board of Directors to eight members, adding Stephanie K. Mains and Vincent K. Brooks as independent directors.\n Stephanie Mains has over 30 years of experience across diverse industrial segments, including aviation, energy and transportation. Most recently, she served as President and CEO of ABB Electrification Products Industrial Solutions, a $2.7 billion leading provider of advanced technologies to protect, control and optimize assets within electrical infrastructures for a number of industrial, commercial and residential applications around the world. She served in this position from 2018, when GE Industrial Solutions was acquired by ABB, until February 2019. Prior to that, she held the position of President and CEO of GE Industrial Solutions from 2015 until its acquisition by ABB in 2018. From 2013 to 2015, Ms. Mains served as President and CEO of GE Distributed Power Global Services, where she led a $2.2 billion global business servicing technologies that power the oil and gas, utilities, mining and industrial segments. From 2006 until 2013, she held positions of increasing responsibility in GE Energy from General Manager to Vice President, as she led the global build out and transformation of a $4 billion service operation providing power equipment and services. Prior to joining GE Energy, she spent 17 years across multiple GE businesses in financial and leadership positions, including CFO for GE Aviation Services – Contractual Services and Material Solutions, a $4 billion aviation material services business. Ms. Mains also serves as a director of Gates Industrial Corporation plc and a member of its audit committee, positions she has held since February 2019. Ms. Mains holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Kentucky. Ms. Mains qualifies as an independent director under the Nasdaq listing standards. Vincent “Vince” Brooks is a career Army officer who served in the U.S. Army for over 42 years, retiring from active duty in 2019 as a four-star general. General Brooks spent his final seventeen years as a general officer and in ...