Geoscience and engineering solutions provider Global Geophysical Services Inc. (NYSE:GGS) has named Richard White as its new president and CEO.

White previously served as president of Western Geophysical, CEO of Veritas DGC, and CEO of NuTec Energy.

Richard Degner will continue to serve as non-executive chairman of the board of Global and also as president of Autoseis Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Global.

Global Geophysical Services, headquartered in Houston, TX, provides an integrated suite of geoscience and engineering solutions to the global oil and gas industry including high-resolution RG-3D Reservoir Grade(R) seismic data acquisition, Autoseis(R) autonomous nodal recording technology, microseismic monitoring, seismic data processing and interpretation services, and Multi Client data products.