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John T. McNabb, II was elected as Chairman of the Board in September 2007.  He was elected to the Board of Directors in August 2006.  Mr. McNabb is Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Growth Capital Partners, L.P., a merchant banking firm that provides financial advisory services to middle market companies throughout the United States, since 1992.  Since 2001, he has served as a Principal of Southwest Mezzanine Investments, the investment affiliate of Growth Capital Partners, L.P.  Previously, he was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust New York Corporation and a Board member of BT Southwest, Inc., the southwest U.S. merchant banking affiliate of Bankers Trust, from 1989 to 1992.  Mr. McNabb started his career, after serving in the U.S Air Force during the Vietnam conflict, with Mobil Oil in its exploration and production division and has approximately 30 years of experience in various segments of the energy business.  Mr. McNabb has served on the board of six public companies. 

Randy Harl was elected Chief Executive Officer in January of 2007, in addition to his duties as President of Willbros Group, Inc. He joined Willbros in January 2006 to serve as President and Chief Operating Officer of Willbros Group, Inc., as well as a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Harl has over 30 years experience working with Kellogg Brown & Root ("KBR") and its subsidiaries in a variety of officer capacities, serving as President of several of the Brown & Root business units. Mr. Harl's experience includes executive management responsibilities for units serving both upstream and downstream oil and gas sectors as well as power, government and infrastructure sectors. He was President and CEO of KBR from March 2001 until July 2004 when he was appointed Chairman.
     





Michael J. Bayer
was elected to the Board of Directors in December 2006.  Mr. Bayer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Dumbarton Strategies, Washington, D.C.  Since 1992, Mr. Bayer has acted as a consultant engaged in enterprise strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions, specializing in the energy and national security sectors.  Mr. Bayer is the Chairman of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Business Board, a member of the Sandia National Laboratory's National Security Advisory Panel, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Science Board and the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel.  Mr. Bayer's previous U.S. Government service included appointments as a member of the U.S. European Command Senior Advisory Group, a member of the Board of Visitors of the United States Military Academy, Chairman of the U.S. Army Science Board, and Chairman of the Air Force Secretary's Advisory Group.  Earlier in his career he was Counsel to a senior Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy, Malcolm Baldrige's Associate Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Counselor to the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation, Counselor to President Bush's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, and the Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System.  He has also served on a number of non partisan task forces to improve the management and efficiency of the Department of Defense.  Mr. Bayer currently serves on the Board of Directors of DynCorp International, Inc. and Stratos Global Corp.
     

William B. Berry was elected to the Board of Directors in February 2008.  He began his career with Phillips Petroleum Company in 1976 in Houston, and served the company in El Dorado, Arkansas; London, England; Odessa, Texas; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; and Stavanger, Norway.  In 1981 he  transferred to Houston as Manager, Partner Operations. In 1984 he was moved to Corporate headquarters in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, as Planning Manger for E&P.  In 1986 he was relocated to Odessa, Texas as the Operations manager responsible for E&P and Gas Gathering and Processing for Phillips’ Permian Basin operations. He was named manager, corporate planning in 1989, and then became Country manager for international exploration and production in China in 1992.  Berry was recognized by the government of China as one of the 31 outstanding foreign experts in 1996.  He became vice president of international exploration and production, new ventures, in 1997 and vice president of exploration and production, Eurasia, in 1998.  In 2001, he was elected senior vice president of exploration and production, Eurasia-Middle East, a position he held until the ConocoPhillips merger in August 2002.  Following the merger, he served as president, Asia Pacific, until year end 2002, when he was named executive vice president, exploration and production. He retired December 31, 2007.  He served on the board of the Beijing International School from 1996 to 1997, and he currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory  Council and the Foundation Board of Directors at Mississippi State University, and the advisory Board of Teach For America in Houston, and is the past Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Spindletop International, a Houston based Petroleum Industry Philanthropic organization.  Berry also served on the Asia Society Texas Board.  Mr. Berry is a native of Mississippi, and graduated in 1974 from Mississippi State University with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering.  In 1976, he received his master’s degree in petroleum engineering.
     




Arlo B. DeKraai
was elected to the Board of Directors in November 2007, and serves as President and CEO of the Willbros Downstream business segment (“InServ”).  Mr. DeKraai has over 35 years experience working in the downstream oil and gas construction, turnaround and maintenance industry.  He graduated from South Dakota State University in 1970 with a BS in Civil Engineering and worked for Texaco Inc. in their refining operations.  He entered the construction and turnaround business in various capacities and ultimately was the founder and President of Midwest Industrial Contractors in 1983, as a provider of construction and maintenance services for the refinery and petrochemical sector. As President and CEO of InServ, the company was transformed into a global leader in the downstream construction, turnaround, maintenance and turnkey projects business with over $300 million in revenue in 2007. He remains in his current capacity at InServ, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Willbros Group, while also serving as a Class III Director for Willbros.  Mr. DeKraai was named Distinguished Engineer of South Dakota State University (SDSU) in 2005, serves on the Board of Governors of The Enterprise Institute, an affiliate of SDSU, and is also on the Board of Directors of the Oaks Indian Mission which provides for the needs of Native American children in Oaks, Oklahoma.
     

Edward J. (Jed) DiPaolo was elected to the Board of Directors in May 2009.  Mr. DiPaolo is an Energy Partner of Growth Capital Partners, L.P.  From 1976 to 2002, Mr. DiPaolo was with Halliburton Company, most recently as Group Senior Vice President of Global Business Development.  Prior to serving as Group Senior Vice President, Mr. DiPaolo was North American Regional Vice President and Far East Regional Vice President of Halliburton.  In this role, he was responsible for overall operations of Halliburton Energy Services’ North America and Far East operations. Mr. DiPaolo received his undergraduate degree in Agricultural Engineering from West Virginia in 1976.  He also serves on the Advisory Board for the West Virginia University College of Engineering.  Mr. DiPaolo served as Interim Chairman of the Board of Directors of Boots and Coots Group.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the following public companies: Evolution Petroleum Corporation, Superior Well Services, Inc., and Boots and Coots, Inc., as well as several private company boards.



Bob Sluder was elected to the Board of Directors in May 2007.  Mr. Sluder was President of Kern River Gas Transmission Company, a unit of MidAmerican Energy/Berkshire Hathaway, from February 2002 to December 2005, when he retired. Kern River is the owner and operator of a 1,700-mile interstate natural gas pipeline between southwestern Wyoming and southern California. In addition, he served as President of Alaska Gas Transmission Company, formed in 2003 to fascilitate the delivery of North Slope reserves to Canadian and U.S. markets. He was Senior Vice President and General Manager of The Williams Companies in Salt Lake City from December 2001 to February 2002 and Vice President of Williams Operations from January 1996 to December 2001.  Mr. Sluder served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Kern River from 1995 to 1996 and as Director, Operations for Kern River from 1991 to 1995.  Prior to that time, he held a variety of engineering and construction supervisory positions with various companies.
 
 

S. Miller Williams was elected to the Board of Directors in May 2004.  He is Executive Vice President Finance for SolTherm Energy, LLC, a renewable energy services company affiliated with The Ambling Companies. He has been Managing Director of Willvest, LLC, an investment and corporate development advisory firm, since 2004.  He was Executive Vice President of Strategic Development of Vartec Telecom, Inc., an international consumer telecommunications services company, from August 2002 until May 2004, and was appointed  Chief Financial Officer of Vartec in November 2003.  From 2000 to August 2003, Mr. Williams was Executive Chairman of the Board of PowerTel, Inc., a public company which provided telecommunications services in Australia.  From 1991 to 2002, he served in various executive positions with Williams Communications Group, a subsidiary of The Williams Companies, that provided global network and broadband media services, where his last positions were Senior Vice President - Corporate Development, General Manager – International and Chairman of WCG Ventures, the company’s venture capital fund.