Samuel Merksamer Member of the Compensation Committee and the Finance Committee, Transocean Ltd.
Samuel Merksamer, age 44, U.S. citizen, has served as a director of the Company since 2013. Mr. Merksamer is an Executive Director at Mubadala Capital since June 2024. He previously worked as a Partner at OneIM from 2022 to 2024 and as a Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers and a Managing Director at SB Management, an affiliate of SoftBank, from 2019 to 2022. Prior to then, Mr. Merksamer was a co-Founder of Caligan Partners, L.P., an investment firm from 2017 to 2019 and a Managing Director of Icahn Capital LP, a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises L.P., from 2008 to 2016. From 2003 until 2008, Mr. Merksamer was an analyst at Airlie Opportunity Capital Management.
Mr. Merksamer previously served as a director of Autostore Holdings Ltd. (2021 to 2023); EQRx (2021 to 2023); American International Group, Inc. (2016 to 2018); Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (2014 to 2017); Navistar International Corporation (2012 to 2017); Cheniere Energy Inc. (2015 to 2017); Transocean Partners (2014 to 2016); Hologic Inc. (2013 to 2016); Talisman Energy Inc. (2013 to 2015); Ferrous Resources Limited (2012 to 2016); CVR Refining, GP, LLC, the general partner of CVR Refining, LP, (2012 to 2014); CVR Energy, Inc. (2012 to 2014); American Railcar Industries, Inc. (2011 to 2013); Dynegy Inc. (2011 to 2012); Viskase Companies, Inc. (2010 to 2013); Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation (2010 to 2014); and PSC Metals Inc. (2009 to 2012). Ferrous Resources Limited, CVR Refining, CVR Energy, American Railcar Industries, Federal-Mogul, Viskase Companies and PSC Metals are each indirectly controlled by Carl C. Icahn. Mr. Icahn also has or previously had a noncontrolling interest in Dynegy, Hologic, Talisman Energy, Navistar, Hertz, Cheniere Energy, Transocean Ltd., Transocean Partners and American International Group, Inc. through the ownership of securities.
Mr. Merksamer received an A.B. in Economics from Cornell University in 2002.