Board of Directors
Information concerning each director and executive officer of Ship Finance International Limited and Ship Finance Management AS, is set forth below.
Directors
| Name | Born | Position |
| Craig H. Stevenson Jr. | 1954 | Director and Chairman of the Board |
| Tor Olav Trĝim | 1963 | Director of the Company |
| Paul Leand Jr. | 1966 | Director of the Company |
| Kate Blankenship | 1965 | Director of the Company and Chairperson of the Audit Committee |
| Cecilie A. Fredriksen | 1983 | Director of the Company |
| Hans Petter Aas | 1946 | Director of the Company |
Certain biographical information about each of the directors is set forth below.
Craig H. Stevenson Jr. has served as a director and Chairman of the Board since September 2007. He has a long career as senior executive in several companies, including Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of OMI Corporation (OMI - a NYSE listed shipping company) from 1998 to 2007, when he left following the acquisition of OMI by Teekay Shipping Corporation and A/S Dampskibsselskabet Torm. He is also currently the CEO of Diamond S Management.
Tor Olav Trĝim has served as a Director of the Company since October 2003 and was the Chairman of the Board until September 2007. He was Vice-President and a director of Frontline from November 1997 to March 2008, and has served as an alternate director of Frontline since March 2008. Mr. Trĝim graduated as M.Sc Naval Architect from the University of Trondheim, Norway, in 1985. His experience includes Portfolio Manager Equity in Storebrand ASA (1987-1990) and Chief Executive Officer for the Norwegian Oil Company DNO AS (1992-1995). Since 1995 Mr. Trĝim has been a director of SeaTankers Management in Cyprus. In this capacity, he has acted as Chief Executive Officer for the public companies Knightsbridge Tankers Limited, Golar LNG Limited (NASDAQ) and Seadrill. Mr. Trĝim is currently Vice Chairman of the latter two companies and in addition is a member of the Boards in the public companies Golden Ocean (OSE), Aktiv Kapital ASA (OSE) and Marine Harvest ASA (OSE).
Paul Leand Jr. serves as a Director of the Company. Mr. Leand is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of AMA Capital Partners LLC, or AMA, an investment bank specializing in the maritime industry. From 1989 to 1998 Mr. Leand served at the First National Bank of Maryland where he managed the Bank's Railroad Division and its International Maritime Division. He has worked extensively in the U.S. capital markets in connection with AMA's restructuring and mergers and acquisitions practices. Mr. Leand serves as a member of American Marine Credit LLC's Credit Committee and served as a member of the Investment Committee of AMA Shipping Fund I, a private equity fund formed and managed by AMA.
Kate Blankenship has been a director of the Company since October 2003. Ms. Blankenship served as the Company's Chief Accounting Officer and Company Secretary from October 2003 to October 2005. Ms. Blankenship has been a director of Frontline since August 2003, a director of Golar LNG Limited since 2003, a director of Golden Ocean since October 2004 and a director of Seadrill since May 2005.
Cecilie Astrup Fredriksen has been a director of the Company since November 2008. Ms. Fredriksen is currently employed by Frontline Corporate Services in London and serves as a director in several boards including Aktiv Kapital ASA and Golden Ocean Group Limited. Ms. Fredriksen received a BA in Business and Spanish from the London Metropolitan University in 2006.
Hans Petter Aas has been a director of the Company since August 2008. Mr. Aas has a long career as banker in the international shipping and offshore market, and retired from his position as Global Head of the Shipping, Offshore and Logistics Division of DnB NOR Bank ASA ("DnB NOR") in August 2008. He joined DnB NOR (then Bergen Bank) in 1989, and has previously worked for the Petroleum Division of the Norwegian Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Energy, as well as for Vesta Insurance and Nevi Finance.
