EVRAZ

Board member since April 2005.
Born in 1959. In December 2008, Mr.Abramov was elected Chairman of the Board of EVRAZ Group. Mr. Abramov has served in similar roles with EVRAZ since founding EvrazMetal, the predecessor of EVRAZ, in 1992, and was a member of the Original Group. Until 1 January 2006, he served as Evraz's Chairman of the Board and CEO, until 1 May 2006 — Chairman of the Board, then as a member of the Board (with no executive responsibilities). Mr. Abramov previously worked at the Institute of High Temperatures of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Mr. Abramov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a first-class honors degree in 1982, and he holds a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics. Mr. Abramov is a Bureau member of the Council of Entrepreneurs and a member of the Council of Entrepreneurs set up by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Mr. Abramov is currently CEO, Evraz Invest.

Mr. Abramov is currently a member of the EVRAZ plc Remuneration Committee and Nominations Committee.

Board member since May 2011.
Born in 1952. Mr Duncan Baxter has 25 years’ experience of international banking. He began his career in banking with Barclays International Bank in Zimbabwe before joining RAL Merchant Bank in 1978. In 1985 he became a director of Commercial Bank (Jersey) Ltd, which was subsequently acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC). In 1988 he became managing director of SBC Jersey Branch. Since leaving SBC in 1998 after its merger with UBS AG, he has undertaken a number of consultancy projects for international banks and investment management companies. He is Non-Executive Chairman of Highland Gold Mining Limited. He also holds other non-executive-directorships. Mr Baxter is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, the Securities Institute, the Chartered Institute of Bankers, the Institute of Management and the Institute of Directors.

Mr. Baxter is currently is currently Chairman of the EVRAZ plc Remuneration Committee and a member of the EVRAZ plc Audit Committee.

Board member since April 2005.
Born in 1964. Mr. Frolov joined the Original Group in 1994, and subsequently held various positions at EvrazMetal. Mr. Frolov served as Chief Financial Officer of EVRAZ from 2002 through 2004. From 2004 till April 2006 he was EVRAZ’s Senior Executive Vice President responsible for the functions of strategy and business development, finance, corporate affairs and communications, business process, human resource, legal and IT, and also a member of the Board of Directors. From May 2006 until December 2008Mr. Frolov served as Chairman of the Board of Directors . Starting 2007, Mr. Frolov was appointed CEO of EVRAZ Group.
Prior to joining EVRAZ, Mr. Frolov worked as a research fellow at the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. Mr. Frolov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a first-class honors degree in 1987, and he received a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics in 1991 from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Mr. Frolov is currently Chief Executive Officer of EVRAZ Group S.A.

Mr. Frolov is currently a memeber of the EVRAZ plc Health, Safety and Environmental Committee.

Board member since May 2010.
Born in 1952. Mr Karl Gruber has extensive experience in the international metallurgical plant business. Mr Gruber held various management positions, including eight years as a member of the Managing Board of VOEST-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau (VAI), first as Executive Vice President of VAI and then as Vice Chairman of the Managing Board of Siemens VAI. He also served as Chairman on the Boards of Metals Technologies (MT) Germany, MT Italy.

Graduated from Technical High School in 1973 with a diploma in mechanical engineering.

Mr. Gruber is currently Chairman of the EVRAZ plc Health, Safety and Environmental committee and a member of the EVRAZ plc Remuneration Committee.

Appointed to the board on 14 October 2011.

Born in 1949. Sir Michael Peat is a qualified chartered accountant with over 35 years’ experience. He served as Principal Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall from 2005 until 2011, and administered the Office of the Prince of Wales from 2002 until 2011. Prior to this, he spent nine years as Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the Queen, and Receiver General of the Duchy of Lancaster, after spending six years as the Director of Finance and Property Services of the Royal Household. Sir Michael Peat was at KPMG from 1972, and became a partner in 1985. He was responsible for a 1986 study into the financial management of the Royal Household, and left KPMG in 1993 to devote himself to his public roles.

Sir Michael Peat holds advisory roles at Barclays Wealth and CQS (UK) LLP and has a senior governance role at Deloitte LLP. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and holds an MBA from INSEAD, and a degree from the University of Oxford.

Mr. Peat is currently Chairman of the EVRAZ plc Nominations Committee  and a member of the EVRAZ plc Remuneration Committee.

Board member since August 2006.
Born in 1969. Ms. Pokrovskaya joined Millhouse LLC as head of corporate finance in July 2006. She previously held several key finance positions in Sibneft since 1997, including serving as head of corporate finance since 2004. From 1991 until 1997, she worked as a senior audit manager at accountancy Arthur Andersen. Ms. Pokrovskaya graduated with honors from the State Financial Academy in 1991.

Ms. Pokrovskaya is currently Head of Corporate Finance, Millhouse LLC. She is member of the Boards of Highland Gold (since January 2008), OAO Pharmstandard and Greenleas International Holding Ltd.

Ms. Pokrovskaya is currently member of the EVRAZ Group Audit Committee.

Board member since April 2005.
Born in 1944. Terry Robinson is a qualified chartered accountant and has 40 years international business experience. He was 20 years at Lonrho PLC, the international mining and trading group; and the last 10 years as a main board director. Since 1998 he has been variously been occupied with international business recovery engagements and investment projects including natural resources in the UK, Russia, the CIS and Brazil  He is an independent non-executive director of the Toronto listed Katanga Mining Limited with copper and cobalt mining operations in the DRC and is a member of Katanga’s audit committee and compensation committee  and until recently was Managing Director of Interactive Records Management Ltd, a private equity controlled investment.  He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales’ non executive director special interest group.

Mr. Robinson is currently Chairman of the EVRAZ plc Audit committee and a member of the EVRAZ plc Nominations committee and Health, Safety and Environmental committee.

Board member since August 2006.
Born in 1964. Eugene Shvidler is a graduate of the I. M. Gubkin Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas with a masters degree in applied mathematics, and holds an MBA in finance and MS in international tax from Fordham University. He worked as senior vice president of Sibneft beginning in 1995 and served as president of the company from 1998 through 2005.

Mr. Shvidler is currently head of Millhouse LLC.
He joined the Highland Gold board of directors in January 2008.