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.

Mr. Spear joined Hyperdynamics in November 2007 as Vice President and Chief Geophysicist. He subsequently became an Executive Officer on March 2008.

Being adept at prospecting, Mr. Spear has led teams or been a key team member responsible for drilling 512 successful wells over his working career including both exploration and development wells. He has shelf and deepwater Gulf of Mexico experience and Deep Shelf experience GOM. His international experience includes Latin America (Mexico, Central America, Northern South America, Gulf of Paria, offshore Trinidad, Columbus Basin offshore Trinidad, Sub-Andean basins, offshore Brazil, and offshore Argentina (Malvinas Basin and Falkland Islands), Russian Federation, Southeast Asia, Africa and North Africa (Sirte Basin, Libya, Western Desert of Egypt and Muglad Basin, Sudan), Dubai, UAE, West Africa (Ivory Coast, Nigeria -Mobil Nigeria/Shell Nigeria) and Europe (Spain, UK onshore and offshore North Sea).

Mr. Spear is Experienced in some 42 global basins, inclusive of Malaysia, Philippine Islands, Bohai Gulf, Pearl River Basin, Palawan Islands, Northwest Shelf of Australia, Sumatra (Mobil Oil- Indonesia), onshore basins of Australia, New Zealand, and South China Sea offshore of Republic of Vietnam predominately in the Gulf Coast region of Texas, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico. Recent international experience includes Trinidad, Mexico and offshore Nigeria. James is an expert on Landmark workstations and proficient on Geoquest IESX and Charisma workstations/SMT.

Mr. Spear earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1973 from the University of Delaware in Mathematics specializing in Astrophysics and Geophysics. He later went on to the South Dakota School of Mines for his PhD in Geology and Advanced Geophysics in 1977. Mr. Spear is a proud Vietnam War veteran.

Sarah Berel-Harrop was appointed Hyperdynamics' Corporate Secretary in April 2006 and as CFO in June 2008.

Ms. Berel-Harrop has been an accountant with Hyperdynamics on a consulting basis since 2001. Prior to that, she worked as a staff accountant at Malone and Bailey, PC, as an accounting consultant for various public companies, and as treasurer and controller of Harrop Construction Company, Inc., a privately owned mid-sized construction company.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in comparative literature from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration degree from University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Berel-Harrop is a member of the American Society for Quality, the Institute of Management Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Dr. Olufemi O. Babalola joined Hyperdynamics as its new Manager of Petroleum Development and Chief Geophysicist in 2008.

Dr. Babalola, who started his professional career in June 1976, [appointed an Adjunct Professor at the prestigious University of Houston in August 2002], is a computer-proficient professional with more than 3 decades of extensive industry and academic experience in Geosciences, Information Technology, Business Development and Management disciplines. His experience over the last 3 decades spans more than 9 countries across 4 continents - Nigeria, the U.S.A., Mexico, Saudi Arabia, the U.K., Ghana, Togo, Benin, etc. In the petroleum industry, Dr. Babalola has utilized his expertise in Exploration and Production in consulting projects, Software Applications/Workflow Support/Training, 3D & 4D Reservoir Characterization / Modeling, the integration of Reservoir Geosciences & Reservoir Engineering as well as research and applications in the Geosciences, Management Analysis, and Information Technology Management (including Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity).

Dr. Babalola is an accomplished investigator and author, having about 50 peer-reviewed technical publications/conference papers, about 70 unpublished professional / proprietary study reports, as well as a number of recently submitted papers and study reports in progress.

Mr. Jeffrey C. Sprain joined Hyperdynamics as its Exploration Manager in 2008.

With over 27 years of extensive experience as a successful explorationist on both frontier basin work as well as development well specifications, Mr. Sprain will bring his hands-on capabilities together with experienced guidance for the Company's geophysical team in delineating drillable prospects.

Mr. Sprain is an expert on Seismic Micro-Technology’s Kingdom software with extensive experience utilizing three dimensional interpretation and coherency techniques to map complex geologic structure. His emphasis has always been on generating quality drillable prospects that add value to the company. He has worked for numerous oil and gas companies including Salyan Oil (Azerbaijan), Phillips Petroleum, Columbia Gas Development, Meridian Oil, Intoil Corp, Phoenix Energy and EnCana (USA). Working also at Teknica, Inc., he developed proficiency in seismic inversion techniques. Jeff is a graduate of San Diego State University with a double major in geology and geophysics and attended numerous industry courses in various aspects of petroleum exploration. During his career, he has developed expertise in the acquisition, processing and interpretation of  2 and 3 dimensional seismic surveys.

His exploration experience includes prospect generation and discoveries internationally in the Kura River Basin (Azerbaijan), Carpathian thrust belt (Poland and Romania), and offshore Sumatra. Domestically in the Permian, Denver-Julesburg, Williston, Paradox, Bighorn Basins and the western US over-thrust play. He has a long track record of discoveries with estimated ultimate recovery of over 25 MMBO from 9 fields in Azerbaijan, west Texas, southeastern New Mexico and North Dakota.

Mr. Sprain holds a B.S. in Geology with emphasis in Geophysics from San Diego State University, San Diego, California. He is a member of the Denver International Petroleum Society, SEG, AAPG, Denver Geophysical Society, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologist and published a paper on his Versippi Field Lodgepole discovery in North Dakota.