Mr. Collins is the former Chief Executive Officer of Oceaneering International, Inc. (NYSE:OII). He has served as a director of Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR), Pason Systems Inc. (TSE:PSI), Texas Institute of Science, Inc. and NuMat Technologies, Inc.. In addition, Mr. Collins is a member of the Rice University Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Council of Overseers of the Jones Graduate School of Business. He received his MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1972 and both his Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from Rice University in 1969.