Boart Longyear Annual Report 2011

Mr McLemore was appointed a Director on
21 February 2007 and became Chairman of the Board on
23 August 2010. He also is a member of the Remuneration and Nominations 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 ten 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. Mr McLemore also served as a General Manager of a General Electric Power Systems division from 1985 to 1997.

Mr McLemore received his BS from Oklahoma State University.

Mr Kipp was appointed President and CEO of Boart Longyear in 2008, after serving three years as the company’s COO and after the successful 2007 IPO. Prior to joining the company, he was employed by General Electric from 1983 to 2005, serving in various capacities in GE’s Energy Division, including: President and COO of the Global Nuclear Fuel business, General Manager of Hungary operations in Budapest and finally General Manager of China operations in Shanghai.

Mr Kipp received both 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.

Mr Brook currently is Chairman of the Board of Programmed Group and a director of CSL Limited, the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, the Deep Exploration Technologies Co-operative Research Centre and Newmont Mining Corporation (New York Stock Exchange). 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 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 the Chairman of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee and a member the Environment, Health & Safety Committee.

He currently holds board positions with McDermott International Inc.(New York Stock Exchange), and Ultra Petroleum Corporation (New York Stock Exchange). In addition, he has held board positions for I.E. Miller Services, Sandvik/Smith Ltd and the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association.

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 and a leading worldwide supplier of products and services to the oil and gas industrial markets.

Mr Brown received his BS in Economics, History and Political Science along with his JD from the University of Oklahoma.

Mr Franklin was appointed a Director of the Company on 15 October 2010 and is the Chairman of the Environment, Health & Safety Committee and member of 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), Statoil ASA (Oslo Stock Exchange), and Cuadrilla Resources. 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 Officer 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 BS in Geology from the University of Southampton.

Ms Fratto was appointed a Director on 1 June 2011 and is a member of the Environment, Health & Safety Committee and the Remuneration & Nominations Committee.

She most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Innovations, the world’s leading supplier of manufactured diamond, cubic boron nitride (CBN), and polycrystalline products, from 2004 and April 2011. Ms Fratto also was an officer of the General Electric Company and held a number of leadership positions over more than 20 years there, including in general management, operations, sourcing, product management and marketing.

Ms Fratto received her BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Alabama.

Mrs Jeremiah was appointed a Director of the Company on 1 October 2011 and is a member of the Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee and Environment, Health and Safety Committee.

Mrs Jeremiah is a non-executive Director of EQT, Inc. (New York Stock Exchange), Allegheny Technologies, Inc. (New York Stock Exchange) and First Niagara Financial Group (NASDAQ). She also serves on the board of two non-profit organisations in the United States.

Mrs Jeremiah’s professional career includes several senior executive roles for Alcoa, Inc. She retired as Alcoa’s Executive Vice President for Corporate Development in 2009 and in that role was responsible for leading Alcoa’s worldwide acquisition and divestiture activity as well as its strategic analysis of its business.

Prior to her corporate development responsibilities, she held several senior positions in Alcoa’s legal department, including Corporate Secretary and Assistant General Counsel.

Mrs Jeremiah received a BA in Political Science from Brown University and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.

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 currently is a Director of Dexus Group and First Quantum Minerals Limited (Toronto Stock Exchange). He also has served as a Director of SFE Corporation Limited and Spark Infrastructure Group.

Mr St George’s professional experience includes serving as Chief Executive/Co-Chief Executive of Salomon Smith Barney Australia/NatWest Markets Australia from 1995 to 2001 and 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 an MBA from the University of Cape Town.