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 Singapore based

John graduated from Britannia Royal Navy College and spent 11 years with the Royal Navy, the last three as Diving Officer on board the DP diving vessel HMS Challenger including 300m (1000' ) Diving and development of new equipment.

John also served as a Diving Training Officer at the Navy's School of Operations, advising the Royal Navy and Army on diving issues, commanded naval patrol operations off Hong Kong and Northern Ireland. As a Royal Navy Clearance Diving Officer he also qualified in bomb and mine disposal and dealt with clearance of live mines, ammunition and unexploded bombs.

John then spent eight years with major international diving contractor Fraser Diving, which specialises in portable Saturation Diving Systems and other manned subsea intervention techniques.

He worked in Brunei, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai for Fraser Diving and became Vietnam Country Manager before being appointed General Manager South East Asia operations in 1997. John left to found Hallin Marine 1998 and became Chief Executive of the expanding Hallin group in 2003. He oversaw Hallin's floatation on the AIM market in April 2005.

John is a qualified saturation diver, supervisor and instructor and a member of a number of professional bodies, including the Society for Underwater Technology, an Associate of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management 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 Systems Limited and runs the East Division of Hallin

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 UK Ltd and runs the West Division of Hallin

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.

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