Kent Watts is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hyperdynamics.

Mr. Watts is responsible for managing Hyperdynamics' strategic direction. A long-time entrepreneur, Mr. Watts' association with Hyperdynamics began in 1996, when an information technology services company he had founded in 1988, MicroData Systems, Inc. was acquired by Hyperdynamics in an internet company reverse merger. He assumed his current positions at Hyperdynamics in 1997. A certified public accountant, Mr. Watts, also held the additional role of Chief Financial Officer of the company until November 2005.

Following the technology industry downturn in 2001, Mr. Watts engineered the acquisition of SCS Corporation, a company that provided seismic data management and transcription services, and re-aligned company's technical capabilities from information technology to energy. The following year, he worked with management of SCS and initiated the company's oil and gas exploration program offshore Guinea. In 2004, he structured an acquisition that led to the establishment of HYD Resources Corporation, which conducts oil production activities onshore Louisiana. In 2005 and 2006 he orchestrated the activities that led to the signing of a new 2006 production sharing contract with the Republic of Guinea. In 2005, he secured Hyperdynamics' listing on the American Stock Exchange.

Mr. Watts earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston. Before founding MicroData Systems, he was an external auditor with the public accounting firm of Peat Marwick Mitchell and Company, now KPMG.

He is the founder of American Friends of Guinea, established in March 2006 as a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization to provide medical and other relief to the Republic of Guinea.

Harry Briers is Executive Vice President of Hyperdynamics. He joined the company in May 1998 and has served as a member of the company's Board of Directors since March 2000.

As Executive Vice President, he is responsible for managing daily operations of the company and is heavily involved in the execution of work programs for the company's oil and gas license offshore Guinea. Mr. Briers was a member of the Hyperdynamics team that worked in Guinea in 2006. He was instrumental in successful end-stage contract negotiations that led to the completion and execution of the Company’s 2006 Production Sharing Contract.

Prior to joining Hyperdynamics as Director of Integrated Information Systems, Mr. Briers owned and operated Perfect Solutions, a software consulting firm in Houston, Texas, for 10 years. He has extensive experience in marketing and implementation of mission-critical software applications.

Earlier, he was a consultant in Ernst & Young's Entrepreneurial Services Group, where he provided services to growing organizations such as Landmark Graphics - now a Halliburton company - whose software solutions integrate oil and gas exploration, reservoir management, drilling, production, business-decision analysis and data management.

Mr. Briers holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.

Charles Andrews has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Hyperdynamics since December 2007.

Mr. Andrews is a Geoscientist with over forty years experience in the oil and gas exploration and geophysical services industries. His 10-year tenure with Shell Oil Company included: magnetics and gravity operations, seismic interpretation assignments, Party Chief of seismic refraction and seismic reflection marine crews, Party Chief of a seismic reflection land crew and as Division Geophysicist for Operations with Shell's seismic land crews in the Houston Area. Prior to leaving Shell his last assignment was in the E&P head office working with a team evaluating seismic data from offshore western Canada.

After leaving Shell's E&P Head Office, he has held a succession of Consulting, Executive and Management Positions in exploration companies: Mosbacher Energy Company and Precision Wells, Inc. where he is V.P. of Geophysics, and in service companies: GeoQuest Data Services, Inc. which he formed and was Chairman, CEO and later also became Chairman, CEO of sister company, GeoQuest Exploration, Inc. He then formed his own consulting company, Andrews Geoscience, Inc., doing acquisition and processing QC, and interpretation and became experienced in 3-D seismic acquisition design and processing. With others he formed and was a Partner in Applied Seismic Concepts, Inc. developing seismic data processing applications on a SX-2 Super Computer at the Houston Area Research Center in The Woodlands, Texas. He is currently V.P. at Seismic Wavelet Imaging, Inc. which does seismic processing to enhance the resolution of seismic data.

Andrews is a present or past member of international oil industry societies SEG, IAGC, AIPG, AAPG, SIPES and has been registered as a Geophysicist in the State of California. He is a past Secretary of the International Association of Geophysical Contractors, Chairman of the Continuing Education Committee of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Chairman of the Data Processing Committee of the Geophysical Society of Houston. He is a past Vice-President and President of the Geophysical Society of Houston, and past Treasurer of the Houston Division of the National Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists.

He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics with Geology minor from Texas Christian University and a M.S. degree in Geophysics from Texas A&M University. Andrews is a Retired Lt. Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve, having served on Guam, M.I. and in the Office of Naval Petroleum Reserves, Washington D.C. during the Korean War.

Harold "Red" Poling is retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ford Motor Co. and has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Hyperdynamics since June 2004.

Mr. Poling is a Director and Chairman of the Board of Eclipse Aviation Corp., a private jet aircraft manufacturer. He is a past director of Shell Oil Company, ArvinMeritor, Kellogg, and Flint Ink Corp. and is a past member of the President's Export Council, the premier national advisory committee on international trade.

Mr. Poling also is current chairman of The PGA Tournament Players Club of Michigan and a trustee of William Beaumont Hospital and Spring Arbor University.

Gene Stohler is an executive serving the automotive industry and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Hyperdynamics since 2006.

Mr. Stohler currently is Vice President, Business Development, for Bankers Integration Group, a technology and software development company that provides decision support tools for auto dealers and lenders to help match buyers with available loan programs.

Mr. Stohler retired in 2003 from Masco Corporation, where he was Vice President, Marketing and Planning, in the Automotive Group. He also has held senior positions in automotive equipment and parts sales and marketing for Rockwell International and ITT Automotive. Early in his career, Mr. Stohler provided marketing, sales and manufacturing support for the inventor of the cruise control system.

Mr. Stohler is a past board member of the Automotive Hall of Fame, Oakland University and a past member of the Board of Breed Technologies, a supplier of safety equipment to the automotive industry.