Major Drilling Group International Inc. announced that Ms. Kim Keating will be appointed as the next Chair of the Board, effective at the Company's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on September 8, 2022 (the “2022 AGM”), assuming the re-election of Ms. Keating at such meeting. This change is the result of a process initiated by the current Chair, David Tennant, who expressed a desire to retire at the 2022 AGM, and conducted by the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board. A member of Major Drilling's Board since 2019, Ms. Kim Keating is a Professional Engineer with 25 years of broad international experience in the oil and gas, nuclear, hydropower, and mining sectors.

Most recently, Kim was the Chief Operating Officer of the Cahill Group. She joined the Cahill Group in 2013 as Director of Projects and oversaw the construction and delivery of one of the largest topside modules ever built for a major offshore oil and gas development. Prior to joining the Cahill Group, Ms. Keating held a variety of progressive leadership roles from engineering design through to construction, commissioning, production operations and field development with Petro Canada (now Suncor Energy Inc.).

She holds a Bachelor of Civil (Structural) Engineering degree, a Master of Business Administration, is a registered member of the Professional Engineering & Geoscientists NL (PEGNL) and holds the Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation. She also graduated from the Rotman-ICD Directors Education Program in March 2020 and was awarded her ICD.D designation. In June 2016, she was named a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineers.

Ms. Keating is a director on the board of Yamana Gold Inc., a reporting issuer, and is a member of its compensation and sustainability committees, and is also on the board of the Drax Group plc., and is a member of its nomination and remuneration committees.