HERBERT S. VOGEL

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SM Energy Co

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2021-04-16 Mr. Vogel started his career as a reservoir engineer with ARCO Alaska, Inc., and progressed through a series of positions of increasing responsibility in engineering, operations management, new ventures development, and business unit management at ARCO and BP.
2022-04-14 Mr. Vogel was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company in November 2020. Mr. Vogel previously served as the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer since July 2020, as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company since May 2019, and Executive Vice President—Operations of the Company since August 2014. Mr. Vogel joined the Company in March 2012 as Senior Vice President—Portfolio Development and Technical Services, and has over 37 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He joined the Company after his retirement from BP, where he most recently served as the President of BP Energy Co. and Regional Business Unit Leader of North American Gas & Power. His previous roles included COO—NGL, Power & Financial Products in Houston, Managing Director Gas Europe & Africa in London, and Sr. VP of the Tangguh LNG Project in Indonesia. Mr. Vogel started his career as a reservoir engineer with ARCO Alaska, Inc., and progressed through a series of positions of increasing responsibility in engineering, operations management, new ventures development, and business unit management at ARCO and BP.
2023-04-13 President and Chief Executive Officer of SM Energy; over 38 years of experience in the oil and gas industry; started career as a reservoir engineer; Executive Leadership Experience, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics and Technology.
2024-04-04 President and CEO of SM Energy; Former President of BP Energy Co.; Reservoir engineer background but no explicit mention of programming or software engineering skills.
2025-04-07 BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder; MSE, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin; Senior Executive Leadership Experience, Operations Management Expertise and Enterprise Risk Management and Hedging Experience acquired while serving as CEO and COO at the Company and in senior leadership roles at BP including LNG and gas marketing and trading in London, Madrid, and Houston, and E&P in Indonesia and at ARCO in Indonesia, the Permian Basin and Alaska.

Data sourced from SEC filings. Last updated: 2025-10-12