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 C. Sean Day, Director and Chairman, has served as Teekay's Chairman of the Board since September 1999. Mr. Day has also served as Chairman of the Board for Teekay GP L.L.C. since it was formed in November 2004, Teekay Offshore GP L.L.C. since it was formed in August 2006, and Teekay Tankers Ltd. since it was formed in October 2007. From 1989 to 1999, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Navios Corporation, a large bulk shipping company based in Stamford, Connecticut. Prior to this, Mr. Day held a number of senior management positions in the shipping and finance industry. He is currently serving as a Director of Kirby Corporation, and Chairman of Compass Diversified Holdings (NASDAQ: CODI).
Dr. Ian D. Blackburne, Director, has over 25 years experience in petroleum refining and marketing, and in March 2000 he retired as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Caltex Australia Limited, a large petroleum refining and marketing conglomerate based in Australia. He is currently serving as Chairman of CSR Limited and is a Director of Suncorp-Metway Ltd., Australian public companies in the diversified industrial and financial sectors. Dr. Blackburne was also previously the Chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization.

J. Rod Clark, Director, retired from the position of President and Chief Operating Officer of Baker Hughes Incorporated in January 2008, a position he held since February 2004. In addition to his Board position with Teekay Corporation, Mr. Clark also serves as a Director with ENSO International and Kirby Corporation. Prior to his role as President and COO with Baker Hughes Incorporated, he was Vice President, Marketing and Technology from 2003 to 2004 after having joined Baker Hughes Incorporated in 2001 as Vice President and President of Baker Petrolite Corporation. Mr. Clark was President and Chief Executive Officer of Consolidated Equipment Companies, Inc. from 2000 to 2001 and President of Sperry-Sun, a Halliburton company, from 1996 to 1999. He has also held financial, operational and leadership positions with FMC Corporation, Schlumberger Limited and Grace Energy Corporation. Mr. Clark is also involved in numerous non-profit organizations, including the Dallas Theological Seminary as member of the Board of Incorporate Members and the Center For Christian Growth as Board Trustee.
Peter S. Janson, Director, has held a number of key leadership roles in the international engineering services industry. These have included Chief Executive Officer of Agra, a publicly traded engineering and construction company and, following Amec plc's acquisition of Agra, Executive Director of North American operations, a position he held until August 2002. Prior to joining Agra, Mr. Janson served as the Chief Executive Officer of US Operations for Asea Brown Boveri Inc. (ABB), the global leader in power and automation technologies. Mr. Janson was President of Asea Inc. at the time of its merger with BBC Brown Boveri in 1988, and was appointed to lead the creation of the new company as President and Chief Executive Officer of ABB's Canadian operations. In that role, he led the acquisitions and integrations of both Westinghouse T&D and Combustion Engineering into ABB. Mr. Janson has also served as a member of the Business Round Table in the United States, and as a member of the National Advisory Board on Science and Technology in Canada, reporting directly to the Prime Minister. He currently serves on the Boards of Terra Industries Inc. and IEC Holden.
Axel Karlshoej, Director and Chairman Emeritus, was Chairman of the Teekay Board from June 1994 to September 1999, and has been Chairman Emeritus since stepping down. Mr. Karlshoej is President and serves on the compensation committee of Nordic Industries, a California general construction firm with which he has served for the past 30 years. He is the older brother of the late J. Torben Karlshoej, Teekay's founder.
Thomas Kuo-Yuen Hsu, Director, has served 30 years with, and is presently a Director of, CNC Industries, an affiliate of the Expedo Group of Companies that manages a fleet of nine vessels ranging in size from 30,000 dead weight tonnes (DWT) to 150,000 DWT. He has been a Committee Director of the Britannia Steam Ship Insurance Association Limited since 1988.
Eileen A. Mercier, Director, is currently Chair of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan board and acts as a director of ING Bank of Canada, Intact Insurance Corporation, CGI Group Inc. and the University Health Network. She was President of Finvoy Management Inc., her own financial consulting firm, from 1995- 2003. Prior to this she was Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Abitibi-Price Inc.
Bjorn Moller, Director, President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Moller has held the position of Teekay's President and Chief Executive Officer since April 1998. Mr. Moller also serves as Vice Chairman and Director of Teekay GP L.L.C., formed in November 2004; Vice Chairman and Director of Teekay Offshore GP L.L.C., formed in August 2006; and Chief Executive Officer and Director of Teekay Tankers Ltd., formed in October 2007. Mr. Moller has over 25 years experience in the shipping industry, and has served as Chairman of the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation since 2006 and on the Board of American Petroleum Institute since 2000. He has held senior management positions with Teekay for more than 15 years, and has led Teekay's overall operations since January 1997, following his promotion to the position of Chief Operating Officer. Prior to this, Mr. Moller headed Teekay's global chartering operations and business development activities.

Tore I. Sandvold, Director, has over 30 years experience in the oil and energy industry. From 1973 to 1987 he served in the Norwegian Ministry of Industry, Oil & Energy, in a variety of positions in the area of domestic and international energy policy. From 1987 to 1990 he served as the Counselor for Energy in the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C. From 1990 to 2001 Mr. Sandvold served as Director General of the Norwegian Ministry of Oil & Energy, with overall responsibilities for Norway's national and international oil and gas policy. From 2001 to 2002, he served as Chairman of the Board of Petoro, the Norwegian state-owned oil company that is the largest oil asset manager on the Norwegian continental shelf. From 2002 to the present, Mr. Sandvold, through his company, Sandvold Energy AS, has acted as advisor to companies and advisory bodies in the energy industry. Mr. Sandvold serves on other boards, including those of Schlumberger Limited, E.ON Ruhrgas Norge AS, Lambert Energy Advisory Ltd., Offshore Northern Seas, NorWind AS, and the Energy Policy Foundation of Norway.


Board Committee Composition

Name of Director Audit Committee Compensation and Human Resources Committee Nominating and Governance Committee
Non-Employee Directors:      
Ian D. Blackburne   X Chair
J. Rod Clark X

C. Sean Day   Chair  
Peter S. Janson X X  
Axel Karlshoej   X  
Thomas Kuo-Yuen Hsu  
X
Eileen A. Mercier Chair   X
Tore I. Sandvold
  X
Employee Director:      
Bjorn Moller