Beard Co., a natural resources-holding company based in Oklahoma City, has named Mark Bronson to its board of directors.

Beard did not specify which committees, if any, Bronson will sit on, but Bronson has extensive accounting and finance experience; he has been on the executive management team at Harvison Cos. in Fort Worth, Texas, since 2002; and he is responsible for financial oversight activities involving over a dozen companies in such diverse businesses as oil and gas, mining, renewable energy initiatives, light manufacturing, retail sales, wholesale travel, banking, agribusiness, and real estate.

He also serves as a director of several private companies and a Canadian company that is listing on the TSX Venture Exchange. Prior to joining Harvison, Bronson owned and operated a number of his own businesses for 12 years and was an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Business at Texas Christian University, and negotiated the sale of businesses for two clients.