Mr. Childers has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since December 2011, after serving as our Interim President and Chief Executive Officer since November 2011. He also served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Archrock GP LLC, the managing general partner of Archrock Partners, L.P., a master limited partnership in which we owned an equity interest (the “Partnership”) from November 2011 until the Partnership’s merger into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Archrock, Inc. in April 2018. Mr. Childers served as our Senior Vice President from August 2007 through November 2011. He served as an officer, including as President, North America of Exterran Energy Solutions, L.P., a predecessor subsidiary, from March 2008 through November 2011, and as Senior Vice President of the Partnership from June 2006 through November 2011. Mr. Childers joined Universal Compression Holdings, Inc., a predecessor company, in 2002 and served in a number of management positions, including as Senior Vice President and as President of the International Division of Universal Compression, Inc. (Universal’s wholly owned subsidiary). He held various positions with Occidental Petroleum Corporation (an international oil and gas exploration and production company) and its subsidiaries from 1994 to 2002. He also serves as an officer of certain other Archrock subsidiaries. Mr. Childers holds a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College and a J.D. from the University of Southern California.