Samuel D. Sledge

Career

1. 2021-08 – now
   ProPetro Holding Corp.src
   Chief Executive Officer & Director
   Appointed 2021-07-27, effective 2021-08-31, at age 34; moved from Tier 2 to Tier 1 of the executive severance plan
2. 2021-04 – 2021-08
   ProPetro Holding Corp.src
   President
   Appointed 2021-04-05 per the 8-K and the 2026 proxy; the July 2021 8-K says President since May 2021
3. 2020-03 – 2021-04
   ProPetro Holding Corp.src
   Chief Strategy and Administrative Officer
4. 2011 – 2020
   ProPetro Servicessrc
   Frac Technical Specialist, Technical Operations Manager, then Vice President of Finance, Corporate Development and Investor Relations
   Joined 2011; the filings give the roles but not their dates. The 2019 proxy calls him Investor Relations Director for 2018 (DEF14A-2019)

Not located: Dates of each role between joining in 2011 and March 2020 are not stated in any filing read (only that he was Investor Relations Director in 2018); anything before 2011, including graduation years, not located

Achievements

• Rose from a frac technical role (joined 2011) through finance and investor relations to CEO in August 2021, at 34src
• Led the late-2024 launch of PROPWR power generation; the 2026 proxy letter puts delivered or on-order capacity at about 550 MW and about 240 MW under customer contract in early 2026src
• Led 2025 financing for PROPWR: Caterpillar equipment financing (April 2025, expanded early 2026), a Stonebriar leasing facility, and an early-2026 equity offeringsrc
• 2023 PSUs settled at 130% of target on a 60th-percentile relative TSR over 2023-2025src
• Say-on-pay passed with 98.6% of for-plus-against votes at the 2026-05-19 meetingsrc

Education

• Baylor University, BBA Business Administrationsrc
• Baylor University, MBA Business Administrationsrc

Background

• Family Son of David Sledge, ProPetro's Chief Operating Officer from 2011 until 2020-12-31. His father left under a separation agreement with a five-year combined non-compete and non-solicitsrc
• Family Item 404: the company rented three yards in 2025 (about $0.02m, $0.1m and $0.1m a year) from South Midkiff Partners, LLC, part-owned by his father and by director Spencer D. Armour III. The 2026 proxy says 'previously rented'src
• Family The 2020 proxy disclosed that he and his father had a family relationship with an officer of Gravity Oilfield Services, an equipment-rental vendor to the company. The 2019 proxy listed his 2018 pay (about $717k) as a related-party item because he was the COO's sonsrc
• Family The July 2021 CEO-appointment 8-K states there are no family relationships between him and any director or executive officer (his father had left six months earlier)src
• Boards Director and current Chair of the Energy Workforce and Technology Council, an association of energy service companiessrc
• Regulatory The 2019 internal review under the prior CEO found internal and disclosure control deficiencies. The board paid no 2019 bonus to the former CEO (Redman) or CFO (Smith). Sledge, then in finance and investor relations, got a $590k 2019 bonus. No filing read names him in the review's findingssrc