Boart Longyear Annual Report 2012

Barbara 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. On 18 February 2013, the Company announced that Ms Jeremiah was appointed the Chair of the Board effective 1 March 2013.

Ms Jeremiah is a non-executive director of 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. She has also served as a non-executive director of EQT, Inc. (New York Stock Exchange).

Ms 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.

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

David McLemore was appointed a Director on 21 February 2007 and became Chairman of the Board on 23 August 2010. He became Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company on 3 October 2012, contemporaneously with the cessation of Mr Kipp’s employment, and served in that additional capacity until 31 March 2013. Mr McLemore has resigned as Chairman of the Board effective 1 March 2013, but otherwise will remain on the Board.

Mr McLemore is a member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee and served as the Chairman of the Committee during part of the financial year, having held the chairmanship from 22 March 2010 until resigning the post on 1 March 2012.

Mr McLemore has more than 35 years of industrial and broad operational experience. He has held a number of positions with various Advent International portfolio companies for more than 15 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 a General Electric Power Systems division from 1985 to 1997.

Mr McLemore received his BS from Oklahoma State University.

Bruce Brook was appointed a Director of the Company on 21 February 2007. He is Chairman of the Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee and a member of the Environment, Health and 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 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.

Roger Brown was appointed a Director of the Company on 1 July 2010. He is a member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee and has served as the Committee’s Chairman since 1 March 2012. He also is a member of the Environment, Health and Safety Committee.

Mr Brown 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.

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, and his JD, from the University of Oklahoma.

Roy Franklin was appointed a Director of the Company on 15 October 2010. He is the Chairman of the Environment, Health and Safety Committee and a member of the Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee.

Mr Franklin currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Keller Group PLC (London Stock Exchange) and a director of Santos Ltd (Australian Securities Exchange), 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 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 received his BS in Geology from the University of Southampton.

Tanya Fratto was appointed a Director of the Company on 1 June 2011 and is a member of the Environmental, Health and Safety Committee and the Remuneration and Nominations Committee.

Ms Fratto 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 to 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.

Peter St George was appointed a Director of the Company on 21 February 2007 and is a member of the Remuneration and Nominations Committee and the Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee.

Mr St George currently is a director of Dexus Property 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.

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

Mr St George has announced his resignation as a Director of the Company effective 21 May 2013.