Boart Longyear Annual Report 2010

Mr. McLemore was appointed a director on 21 February 2007 and is currently Chairman of the Company and Chairman of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee.

He has 35 years of industrial and broad operational experience. He has held a number of positions with various Advent International portfolio companies for more than 10 years and was involved with Advent International's acquisition of the Boart Longyear Group from Anglo American plc in 2005.

Mr. McLemore served at various times as Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Boart Longyear Group from 2005 until 2007. He also served as a General Manager of General Electric's Power Systems division from 1985 to 1997.

Mr. McLemore received his BS from Oklahoma State University.

Mr. Kipp was appointed a director of the Company on 28 June 2008 when the Board announced Mr. Kipp would transition to Chief Executive Officer, starting 1 January 2009. Prior to being CEO, he was the President and Chief Operating Officer for Boart Longyear. Mr. Kipp joined the Company in 2005 after 22 years with General Electric, where he was employed in various capacities, including President and Chief Operating Officer of the Global Nuclear Fuel division and General Manager of operations both in Hungary and then China.

Mr. Kipp received his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Dakota and his MBA from the University of Chicago.

Mr. Brook was appointed a director of the Company on 21 February 2007, and is Chairman of the Audit, Compliance & Risk Committee and a member of the Environment, Health & Safety Committee.

He is currently a director of Snowy Hydro Limited (appointed May 2006), Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (appointed March 2010), Programmed Group (appointed June 2010) and the Deep Exploration Technologies Co-operative Research Centre (since May 2010). Mr. Brook is also a member of the Financial Reporting Council and a member of the Audit Committee of the Salvation Army (Southern Territory). Mr. Brook was a director of Lihir Gold Limited from 2005 to 2010, chairman of Energy Developments from 2009 to 2010 and a director of Consolidated Minerals from 2005 to 2008.

Mr. Brook was the Chief Financial Officer of WMC Resources Ltd from 2002 to 2005 and has approximately 30 years of experience in various management roles, including Deputy Chief Financial Officer of ANZ Banking Group Limited, Group Chief Accountant of Pacific Dunlop Limited, General Manager, Group Accounting at CRA Limited and General Manager, Accounting and Services at Pasminco Limited.

Mr. Brook gained his B. Comm and B. Accounting at the University of Witwatersrand and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Mr. Brown was appointed a director of the Company on 1 July 2010, and is a member of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee and the Environment, Health & Safety Committee.

He currently holds board positions with McDermott International Inc. (NYSE), and Ultra Petroleum Corporation (NYSE). Prior to that, Mr. Brown served as President of Smith Technologies, a business unit of Smith International, Inc., which prior to its acquisition by Schlumberger, Ltd. was a Fortune 500 company that was a leading worldwide supplier of products and services to the oil and gas industrial markets. In addition, Mr. Brown has held board positions for I.E. Miller Services, Sandvik/Smith Ltd and the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association.

Mr. Brown received his Bachelor of Science in Economics, History, and Political Science, along with his Juris Doctorate, from the University of Oklahoma.

Mr. Franklin was appointed a director of the Company on 15 October 2010 and is a member of the Environment, Health & Safety Committee and the Audit, Compliance & Risk Committee.

He is currently Chairman of the Board for Keller Group PLC (London Stock Exchange) and a director of Santos Ltd (ASX) and Statoil ASA (Oslo Stock Exchange). He previously held directorships on a number of other corporate boards, including International Energy Group and Novera Energy. Mr. Franklin also served as Chief Executive of Paladin Resources from 1997 to 2006, was Managing Director of Clyde Petroleum from 1991 to 1997, and held a number of executive roles with British Petroleum earlier in his career.

Mr. Franklin is based out of England and received his Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Southampton.

Mr. Grzelak was appointed a director of the Company on 13 November 2008, and is Chairman of the Environment, Health & Safety Committee and a member of the Audit, Compliance & Risk Committee.

He is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Komatsu America Corp. since 2002, and has held a variety of senior executive positions with Komatsu since joining the company in 1991. Prior to joining Komatsu, he worked in General Electric's Transportation Systems business for 20 years. Mr. Grzelak has served as a director of the Alamo Group Inc. (NYSE) and has been a member of its Audit, Compensation and Nominating committees since 2006.

Mr. Grzelak earned his BS in industrial engineering from Penn State University and his MBA from Gannon University.

Mr. St. George was appointed a director of the Company on 21 February 2007, and is a member of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee and the Audit, Compliance & Risk Committee.

Mr. St. George has also served as a director of First Quantum Minerals Limited (listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange) since October 2003. He was appointed a director of Dexus Group (listed on the Australian Securities Exchange) in April 2009. He was a director of Spark Infrastructure Group and associated companies from December 2005 until December 2008.

He also served as a director and Chairman of Walter Turnbull, an Australian accounting and financial services firm, from August 2002 until October 2008 and was a director of SFE Corporation Limited from 2000 until its merger with ASX Ltd in July 2006. Mr. St. George served as Chief Executive/Co-Chief Executive of Salomon Smith Barney Australia/NatWest Markets Australia from 1995 to 2001. In addition, he has more than 20 years of experience in senior corporate advisory roles within NatWest Markets and Hill Samuel & Co in London.

Mr. St. George qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa and received his MBA from the University of Cape Town.