Mark D. Zoback, Ph.D. - Co-founder

• Co-founded the company in 1996 and is responsible for educating and advising clients and customers about how GMI technologies can help them meet their drilling and business objectives.
• Benjamin M. Page Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University (zoback@stanford.edu)
• Recipient of the 2006 Emil Wiechert Medal of the German Geophysical Society; the co-recipient of the 2006 New Zealand Geophysics Prize; and is the 2008 Walter Bucher Medalist of the American Geophysical Union.
• World-leading expert in geomechanics, specializing in in-situ stress determination and wellbore stability
• Co-director of the Stanford Rock and Borehole Geophysics (SRB) Consortium
• Principal investigator in many scientific deep drilling projects around the world
• USGS - Chief of the Branch of Tectonophysics, Head of Drilling and Stress Measurement Program

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