People: GrafTech International Ltd (GTI)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Craig Shular	60	2011	Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer
Lindon Robertson	51	2011	Chief Financial Officer, Vice President
John Moran	54	2009	Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Petrus Barnard	63	2008	Vice President, President - Industrial Materials
Joel Hawthorne	48	2011	Vice President, President - Engineered Solutions
Randy Carson	62	2009	Independent Director
Mary Cranston	65	2000	Presiding Independent Director
Harold Layman	66	2003	Independent Director
Ferrell McClean	66	2002	Independent Director
Nathan Milikowsky		2010	Independent Director
Michael Nahl	71	1999	Independent Director
Steven Shawley	60	2010	Independent Director
Kelly Taylor			Director - Investor Relations

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Biographies

Name	Description
Craig Shular	Mr. Craig S. Shular is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Graftech International Ltd. Mr. Shular was elected Chairman of the Board in February 2007. He became Chief Executive Officer and a director of GrafTech in January 2003 and has served as President since May 2002. Mr. Shular also served as the interim Chief Financial Officer from December 2005 until May 2006 and again from April through July 2011. From 1976 through 1998, Mr. Shular held various financial, production, sales and senior business management positions at Union Carbide Corporation. He entered Union Carbide’s Management Development Program with its Carbon Products Division (GrafTech’s predecessor) after which Mr. Shular moved to Union Carbide’s Corporate Group and held several senior positions in the areas of business management, sales and marketing, operations, government relations, corporate internal audits, international finance, and accounting, serving assignments in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Europe and the United States. Mr. Shular joined GrafTech as its Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in January 1999, and assumed the additional duties of Executive Vice President, Electrode Sales and Marketing in February 2000 until August 2001. From August 2001 to May 2002, he served as Executive Vice President of GrafTech’s business—Graphite Electrodes. From May 2002 through December 2002, Mr. Shular served as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Shular is a director and audit committee member of Materion Corporation, a NYSE listed company and international producer and supplier of high-performance engineered materials, and serves on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland. Mr. Shular is a Certified Public Accountant, graduating from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business/Marketing, cum laude, and received a degree of Master of Business Administration with honors (concentration in Finance/Accounting) from the same institution in 1976.
Lindon Robertson	Mr. Lindon G. Robertson is Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of GrafTech International Ltd. He joined GrafTech from IBM Corporation (IBM), where he had a twenty-seven year career in finance and international business. During his tenure at IBM, Mr. Robertson held multiple senior financial leadership roles, including responsibility for IBM's hardware business. He also held international assignments in China and Japan, totaling 10 years. Mr. Robertson has an undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Texas, an MBA from the University of North Carolina and holds a Certified Public Accountant license from the State of North Carolina.
John Moran	Mr. John D. Moran is Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of GrafTech International Ltd. He joined GrafTech in May 2006 as Deputy General Counsel. From December 1996 to April 2006, he was employed by Corrpro Companies, Inc. serving as General Counsel, Senior Vice President & Secretary. He was in-house Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Sealy Corporation between January 1987 and December 1996. From 1984 through 1987 he was a tax accountant with Grant Thornton and became a Certified Public Accountant. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1980 and Juris Doctorate in 1983 from Cleveland State University.
Petrus Barnard	Mr. Petrus J. Barnard is Vice President, President - Industrial Materials of GrafTech International Ltd. He became President of Industrial Materials in February 2008, and became a Vice President in April 2005. He was the President of Graphite Electrodes from April 2005 until January 2008. From April 2003 to March 2005 he served as President, Advanced Carbon Materials. He served as Executive Vice President, Graphite Power Systems, from March 2000 to March 2003. He began his career with the company in 1972 when he joined the company's South Africa subsidiary where he served as Managing Director from 1991 to 1994. From November 1994 to September 1997, he was the Director of Operations for Europe and South Africa, based in France. In 1997 through 2000, he was the Director of Operations for the Americas. He is a graduate of University of Potchefstroom-South Africa with a B.S. Sciences degree and an MBA. He also holds a Ph.D. from Rand Afrikaans University.
Joel Hawthorne	Mr. Joel L. Hawthorne is Vice President, President - Engineered Solutions of GrafTech International Ltd. Mr. Hawthorne joined GrafTech as Director of Investor Relations in August 1999. In January 2001, he was appointed Director of Electrode Sales & Marketing, Americas and, in October 2005, he was appointed Director Worldwide Marketing and Americas Sales. In January 2009, he was appointed Vice President, Global Marketing & Sales for Industrial Materials with responsibility for all aspects of worldwide marketing and sales for the segment. Mr. Hawthorne holds a Bachelor of Science degree (accounting) and a Master of Science degree (business education) from the University of Akron.
Randy Carson	Mr. Randy W. Carson is Independent Director of GrafTech International Ltd. From 2000 to February 2009, Mr. Carson served as Chief Executive Officer—Electrical Group of Eaton Corporation, a diversified power management company with 2008 sales of $15.4 billion. Eaton’s Electrical Group is a global technology leader in electrical components and systems for power quality, distribution and control with 2008 revenues of approximately $6.9 billion. Mr. Carson retired from Eaton in May 2009 following 10 years with the company. Prior to Eaton Corporation, Mr. Carson held several executive positions with Rockwell International. He was also Chairman of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. Mr. Carson is currently a director of Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. and Nordson Corporation, and serves on the audit committee of its board of directors.
Mary Cranston	Ms. Mary B. Cranston is Presiding Independent Director of GrafTech International Ltd. Ms. Cranston is a Retired Senior Partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, or Pillsbury, an international law firm. Ms. Cranston was the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Pillsbury from January 1999 until April 2006, and continued to serve as Chair of Pillsbury until December 2006. Ms. Cranston practiced complex litigation, including antitrust, telecommunications and securities litigation, with Pillsbury beginning in 1975. She is currently a director of Visa, Inc., and serves on the audit committee of its board of directors, Juniper Networks Inc., International Rectifier Corporation, Exponent, Inc., the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Commonwealth Club of California. Ms. Cranston joined the Board in 2000 to assist the Board with, among other things, exercising compliance and other oversight. She has brought unique guidance to bear, not only in that regard, but also in regard to crisis management, effective leadership through a judicious combination of consensus, process and internal controls, and keen insight into evaluating strategic decisions.
Harold Layman	Mr. Harold E. Layman is Independent Director of GrafTech International Ltd. From 2001 until his retirement in 2002, Mr. Layman was President and Chief Executive Officer of Blount International, Inc., a manufacturer of outdoor products, industrial and power equipment, and lawnmowers. Prior thereto, Mr. Layman served in other capacities with Blount International, including President and Chief Operating Officer from 1999 to 2001, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to 2000, and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1993 to 1997. From 1981 through 1992, he held various financial management positions with VME Group/Volvo AB. From 1970 to 1980, Mr. Layman held various operations and financial management positions with Ford Motor Company. He is currently a director of Blount International Inc. and Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation.
Ferrell McClean	Ms. Ferrell P. McClean is Independent Director of GrafTech International Ltd. Ms. McClean was a Managing Director and the Senior Advisor to the head of the Global Oil & Gas Group in Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. from 2000 through the end of 2001. She joined J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated in 1969 and founded the Leveraged Buyout and Restructuring Group within the Mergers & Acquisitions Group in 1986. From 1991 until 2000, Ms. McClean was a Managing Director and co-headed the Global Energy Group within the Investment Banking Group at J.P. Morgan & Co. She retired as a director of Unocal Corporation in 2005.
Nathan Milikowsky	Mr. Nathan Milikowsky has resigned as Independent Director of GrafTech International Ltd., effective May 14, 2013. Mr. Milikowsky was the President of Seadrift Coke L.P., (“Seadrift”), one of the world’s manufacturers of needle coke, from 2005, and also served as Chief Executive Officer of C/G Electrodes, LLC (“C/G”), a graphite electrode manufacturer, from 2003 to 2006 and as its Chairman from 2003, until their acquisition by GrafTech on November 30, 2010. Mr. Milikowsky is a graduate of Yale University and was a John Norton Pomeroy Scholar at New York University School of Law.
Michael Nahl	Mr. Michael C. Nahl has resigned as Independent Director of GrafTech International Ltd., effective May 14, 2013. Mr. Nahl was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Albany International Corp., a manufacturer of paper machine clothing, which are the belts of fabric that carry paper stock through the paper production process, and of composite parts for the aerospace industry, from April 2005 until his retirement in September 2009. Mr. Nahl joined Albany International Corp. in 1981 as Group Vice President, Corporate, and became Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 1983. Mr. Nahl is currently a director and audit committee member of Lindsay Corporation and of Trans World Entertainment Corporation, and was also a member of JPMorgan Chase and Company’s Regional Advisory Board from 1996 through 2010. He is Managing Director of MCN Asset Management LLC and of Utility Transport LLC. With experience as a Chief Financial Officer for a , public industrial company.
Steven Shawley	Mr. Steven R. Shawley is Independent Director of GrafTech International Ltd. Mr. Shawley is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ingersoll Rand plc, a global diversified industrial firm providing products, services and solutions to enhance the quality and comfort of air in homes and buildings, transport and protect food and perishables, secure homes and commercial properties, and enhance industrial productivity and efficiency. Mr. Shawley was named Chief Financial Officer of Ingersoll Rand in June 2008. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and President of the Climate Control Technologies Sector (2005 – 2008). Mr. Shawley joined Ingersoll Rand in 1997 through the acquisition of Thermo King, a business of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, where he was Vice President and Controller. In August of 2002, Mr. Shawley was named President of Thermo King North America. and became President, Climate Control Americas (2003-2005). Mr. Shawley has an exceptional depth and breadth of operational and financial experience related to global diversified industrial products. He has had responsibility for all finance, information technology and treasury activities and served in numerous key financial positions with Westinghouse in a career that spanned over 20 years, including for divisions and plants with broad financial and commercial responsibilities for operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as North America. Mr. Shawley’s education included a bachelor of science degree from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
Kelly Taylor

Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Craig Shular	3,779,170
Lindon Robertson	1,151,810
John Moran	811,360
Petrus Barnard	1,040,340
Joel Hawthorne	832,049
Randy Carson	--
Mary Cranston	--
Harold Layman	--
Ferrell McClean	--
Nathan Milikowsky	--
Michael Nahl	--
Steven Shawley	--
Kelly Taylor	--

As Of 30 Dec 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Craig Shular	1,684,000	2,240,250
Lindon Robertson	0	0
John Moran	0	0
Petrus Barnard	421,000	617,750
Joel Hawthorne	0	0
Randy Carson	0	0
Mary Cranston	0	0
Harold Layman	0	0
Ferrell McClean	0	0
Nathan Milikowsky	0	0
Michael Nahl	0	0
Steven Shawley	0	0
Kelly Taylor	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
HAWTHORNE JOEL L	1,353	$7.68
SHULAR CRAIG S	18,210	$7.68
MORAN JOHN D	2,610	$7.68
BARNARD PETRUS J	6,004	$7.68
SHULAR CRAIG S	40,000	$7.32
ROBERTSON LINDON G	14,000	$7.27
HAWTHORNE JOEL L	40,000	$0.00
LAYMAN HAROLD E	15,135	$2.83
SHULAR CRAIG S	2,369	$9.66
MORAN JOHN D	663	$9.66
MCCLEAN FERRELL P	1,535	$0.00
LAYMAN HAROLD E	8,466	$0.00
SHAWLEY STEVEN R	3,916	$0.00
MILIKOWSKY NATHAN	8,466	$0.00
SHAWLEY STEVEN R	8,466	$0.00
MILIKOWSKY NATHAN	3,704	$0.00
CRANSTON MARY B	8,466	$0.00
MCCLEAN FERRELL P	8,466	$0.00
CARSON RANDOLPH W	8,466	$0.00
CARSON RANDOLPH W	1,641	$0.00
NAHL MICHAEL C	8,466	$0.00
NAHL MICHAEL C	12,800	$5.15
CRANSTON MARY B	12,800	$9.73
CRANSTON MARY B	12,800	$5.15
MCCLEAN FERRELL P	12,800	$5.15

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