Directors' Biographies

ANTONY EBEL, aged , Non-Executive Chairman, chairs the Board's Audit and Remuneration Committees, UK based

Originally trained first in Law and then as a Chartered Accountant, Tony spent his first years after qualifying as an analyst with Esso Petroleum and then as a Financial Director within The Associated Fisheries Group.

In 1974 he joined Gresham House plc of which he has been a director since 1976. In 1977 he became Chief Executive of Quest Automation and led their growth as one of the successful, rapidly expanding, technology companies in the 80's.

In the 17 years since the takeover of Quest he has been responsible for a number of successful start-up companies, mainly technology based, which have achieved their target goals of a trade sale. Currently he is involved with companies operating in technology distribution, market technology consultancy and the renewable energies sector.

JOHN GIDDENS, aged , Chief Executive

John founded Hallin Marine in Singapore in 1998 and has been responsible for managing the growth of the company through its 10 year history. He became Chief Executive of the expanding Hallin group in 2003, and oversaw Hallin's floatation on the AIM market in April 2005.

John originally graduated from Britannia Royal Navy College and spent 11 years with the Royal Navy as a Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving Officer, qualified in various specialist underwater operations including bomb and mine disposal. He served in command positions on operations in Hong Kong, Gulf of Suez and Northern Ireland, as well as a period as a Diving Training Officer at the Navy School of Operations. For his last three years in the Royal Navy John served as Diving Officer on board the DP diving vessel HMS Challenger which included 300m (1000') diving trials and development of new equipment.

After leaving the Royal Navy John spent eight years with major international diving contractor Fraser Diving, a subsea contractor specialising in portable Saturation Diving Systems and other manned subsea intervention techniques. He worked variously as operations manager, QHSE manager and business development manager in Brunei, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai for Fraser Diving. In 1995 John set up and ran a new business for Fraser Diving in Vietnam before being appointed General Manager South East Asia operations, based in Singapore. He left Fraser Diving in 1998 to form Hallin Marine.

John is a qualified saturation diver, supervisor and instructor and a member of a number of professional bodies, including the Society for Underwater Technology, and Member of the Institute of Explosive Engineers.

TONY PREST, aged , Finance Director

A chartered accountant, Tony joined the board of Hallin as a non-executive director in June 2005, moving to work as Hallin's first full time executive Finance Director on 1st October 2007.

Previously, Tony was Group Finance Director of Azzurri Technology, a pan-European specialist electronics component distributor. Prior to that Tony acted as Finance Director of 4-Sight plc, a UK-based communications software group with interests in Europe and the USA, and also served as European finance director of US owned networking company, WAM!NET.

Tony's background is working in international businesses with responsibility for strategic financial planning, raising both equity and debt finance, and merger and acquisition activities. He qualified as a chartered accountant in London and then moved to Southampton with KPMG where he had responsibility for a general practice group.

Tony also has a non-executive involvement in three early stage technology-based companies.

DAVID HARRIS, aged , Non-Executive Director and a member of the Board's Remuneration Committee

David is presently a Director of IFG International Limited, a subsidiary of the Dublin-listed company, IFG Group PLC, a role he has undertaken for over 12 years. David has over 20 years experience in the offshore financial sector and will bring an extensive range of contacts to the Hallin Board.

Previously, David was a director of Coopers Lybrand Channel Islands. A list of David's current directorships and those previously held over the last five years is extensive and can be viewed at the regulatory announcement elsewhere on the Hallin website.

JOHN QUINN, aged , Non Executive Director and a member of the Board's Remuneration Committee.

John rejoined the board in February 2008 after stepping down because of his other business interests in April 2006.

John was a very early stage investor in the company and has a number of diverse business interests. He is a professional journalist but now concentrates as a marketing and public relations consultant, advising, amongst others, Hallin on its PR.

He has started and grown a number of successful businesses in a variety of fields and was chairman of 2day UK Ltd (now Fonestarz), a world leader in mobile phone content management and distribution companies. He owned, grew and eventually sold two regional news agencies and is a former chairman of the National Association of Press Agencies.

JON ATTENBURROW, aged , Director of the Board and Managing Director of Hallin Marine's Eastern Division

Jon gained his engineering degree at Aberdeen University where he also trained as a pilot with the University Air Squadron. Training as a commercial diver in Scotland and France, he worked as a diver in the UK and Hong Kong before joining the Singapore based offshore commercial diving company Fraser Diving as a saturation diver.

Jon joined HMSI in November 1999, responsible initially for diving operations and subsea project management and was promoted to General Manager in 2002. He transferred to the East Division in 2003 and appointed Director in 2004 and attained his MBA the same year following study at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Primarily responsible for business development, bringing in many new projects and clients for that company, liasing with the East Division's existing and potential customers thereby establishing the opportunities of future contracts.

MIKE ARNOLD, aged , Director of the Board and Managing Director of Hallin Marine's Western Division

Mike is a veteran of the subsea intervention industry and has extensive experience in the construction, development, operation and marketing of Remote Operated Vehicles (ROVs). He founded Rovtech Ltd in 1991 and built the company into a major independent ROV services contractor with a turnover of £23million before leaving the business in 2004.

Since 2004 Mike has worked as an international consultant within the subsea intervention market.

JOHN PAYNE, aged , Group Business Development Director

John responsibilities include mergers and acquisitions as well as developing the groups' capabilities and growth plan as a global subsea services contractor. He is also a director of the wholly owned subsidiary Prospect Flow Solutions Ltd and is responsible for its successful integration into the group.

John is a qualified Master Mariner with over 25 years Subsea and Marine experience.

Since coming ashore in 1999 and prior to joining Hallin, John has held senior roles in general management, service delivery and is a chartered director, with experience of developing profitable business growth in excess of 400 million dollars and managing joint ventures in Asia and USA.

ANDREW THRELFALL, aged 42, Managing Director of Hallin's Manufacturing Division

Andrew joined Hallin in January 2008 to head up the newly formed Manufacturing Division and become the Managing Director of the Singapore based companies - Hallin Engineering Pte Ltd and HM2 Pte Ltd. He joined after some 16 years in the marine support industry, working with several of the leading offshore support companies around the globe.

Andrew's experience has an emphasis on offshore support vessels working in both exploration and production phases which included the provision of diving and ROV services.

The roles in his career have encompassed business development, contract and project management. He has worked in the UK, Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. Prior to joining Hallin, Andrew worked for OIL, Ocean Group and Lamnalco.

He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and is married with children

LILY LEE, aged 45, Director of Administration

Lily has many years experience in the diving, oil and gas industries gained while working in both the Far and Middle East. Before joining Hallin, Lily was general manager of Technilink in Singapore for two years, prior to which she performed a similar function to her present role for Fraser Diving.

Lily also held senior positions for Fraser Diving in Vietnam and in Dubai. Before joining Fraser Diving she worked for a number of companies related to the oil and gas industry in her native Brunei.

She is responsible for the personnel aspects of the Group, ensuring the right quality and quantity of divers, supervisors and back up staff is available in the right part of the world at the right time.

As the Company's administration manager Lily is responsible for ensuring the efficient running of the Company's growing administration along with a team of two staff. Lily is the wife of the Chief Executive, John Giddens.

REMUS LIM TIEN POH, aged 35, Finance Director of Hallin Marine's Eastern Division

Remus qualified in Singapore in 1995 ultimately becoming a Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Before studying accountancy Remus spent two and a half years in the Singapore Army as an artillery officer. He continues to be a Captain in the country's Territorial Army. He has extensive experience both in the subsea industry and in general commerce in Singapore.

Remus was the regional accountant for Fraser Diving head office in Singapore for two and a half years, leaving in 1999 to join Interlocal Exim Pte Ltd, a major distributor of alcoholic beverages in the Indochina markets.

As head accountant at Interlocal Exim Pte Ltd he had the financial responsibilities for the group and its 10 subsidiaries and associates, reporting directly to the board. Remus was responsible for arranging that group's complex banking and trading facilities.

He joined the Group in April 2003 and has responsibility for the Finance and Commercial Department. He implemented the Company's existing formal financial reporting and forecasting systems essential to support the Operations Department on their financial needs. He also has responsibility for contract review and commercial monitoring of ongoing projects to ensure budget targets are met.

GRAHAM COOPER, aged , Commercial Director, Hallin Marine Eastern Division

Graham had extensive experience as a commercial air and saturation diver, project manager, general manager and commercial and contracts manager for a number of leading subsea companies, working in the Middle East and Asia, and had received his MBA prior to joining Hallin in 2004.

Initially Graham was the Company's Singapore based commercial manager and was promoted in 2006 to Commercial Director of Easter Division, where he is responsible for the tendering process and contractual negotiations at the front end of marine and subsea projects and contracts.

RIK ZWINKELS, aged , Project Director, Hallin Marine Eastern Division

Dutch born Rik joined Hallin in August 2008 as the Singapore based project director for Hallin Marine Pte. The qualified engineer has extensive experience in the offshore industry in both the Far East and Europe and has worked for Heerema, SMIT and Vroon Offshore.

IAN HUGGINS, aged , Business Development Director, Hallin Marine Eastern Division

Ian is a marketing professional with experience from the 'bottom up' of the offshore industry. The former Royal Marine was a remote operated vehicle pilot before moving into project management with Hallin. Ian was voted onto a prestigious industry IMCA committee by his peers in 2008.

MARK WOOD, aged , Technical Director, Hallin Marine Western Division

Mark joined Hallin's UK company at its formation as chief operations officer and has been instrumental in the division's dramatic growth and was promoted to Technical Director in May 2009. Before joining Hallin, Mark worked for ROV operator Rovtech in both the UK and Singapore with Hallin's West Division's managing director, Mike Arnold.

JOHN PATTISON, aged , Operations Director, Hallin Marine Western Division

John is West Division's Operations Director with special responsibility for business development. John was previously employed by Global Marine Systems Ltd, where he was projects director, and has run his own project management consultancy. John has more than 10 years experience in the offshore engineering industry, is a Project Management Professional as accredited by the Project Management Institute and an associate of the Risk Management Institute.

MARK CORNEY, aged , Finance Director, Hallin Marine Western Division

Mark has travelled the world working as a company accountant in the oil industry and counts Moscow; Baku, Azerbaijan; Stavanger; and Jakarta as former homes before settling in Aberdeen with Hallin. He joined the Company in 2007 as the financial controller of West Division and has previously spent most of his career with industry services giant Schlumberger.

JONATHAN D'ARCY, aged , Prospect Managing Director

Jonathan is a chartered engineer and graduate of the University of Nottingham, where he studied civil engineering, and has held a number of senior positions with industry key players including: AMEC; DnV; and, most notably, Houlder, where he held the position of Regional Technical Manager.

Jonathan was appointed as managing director in 2001 and has overseen Prospect's spectacular domestic growth, been instrumental in the planning and development of its international ambitions and steered the company towards its current high profile and respected position within the worldwide oil and gas industry.

IVAR IVERSEN, aged , Business Development Director

Norwegian-born Ivar is a graduate in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and began his career in the Industrial and Offshore Engineering division of consultants Arup. Ivar was seconded to the Max-Planck Institute in Munich where he spent two years in the European fusion energy programme NET.

Upon his return to Aberdeen, he joined Matthew Hall Engineering to work on Shell's Brent Field Redevelopment, still focussed on numerical methods in structural integrity. In 1997 he founded and led Amec's Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) team. In 1999 he founded Prospect as an independent provider of computational mechanics services and is its technical director

MATT STRAW, aged , Business Director

Matt Straw is an engineering graduate of The University of Nottingham where he also gained a Masters and PhD researching computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques in atmospheric fluid mechanics from the School of Civil Engineering. He started his career with ABB's power generation division, designing low emission combustion systems and then moved into engineering consultancy, coordinating Fluent Europe's CFD consultancy activities,

Matt joined the board of directors in 2005, responsible for business development and, following acquisition by Hallin in 2008, became Prospect's UK business director.

ALISTAIR GILL, aged , Technical Director

Having graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Mechanical Engineering degree, Alistair spent the early part of his career in the defence sector, working on projects such as Eurofighter Typhoon. In 1998 Alistair joined Amec's Advanced Engineering Services department. Prospect invited him to take up the position of Operations Director in the spring of 2002.

In July 2006 Alistair moved to Houston, Texas, to head up Prospect Flow Solutions Inc as its President.