Transocean Proxy Statement and 2010 Annual Report

3. Board of Directors
3.1/ The members of the Board as of December 31, 2010 are set forth below. All ages included are as of
3.2 February 15, 2011.
Note that Robert L. Long and John L. Whitmire resigned from the Board effective February 28, 2010 and
July 1, 2010, respectively.
Note further that Richard L. George resigned from the Board effective February 11, 2011, and Robert E.
Rose and Victor E. Grijalva will not stand for re-election at the 2011 annual general meeting to be held on May 13,
2011.
Class III—Terms Expiring 2011
ROBERT E. ROSE, age 71, U.S. citizen, has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since
November 2007. Since February 2009, Mr. Rose has served on the Industry Executive Board of Avista Capital
Partners II, LP, a private equity company. Mr. Rose served as President of Taylor Energy Company LLC, a private
oil and gas production company based in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 2008 until July 2009 when he
resigned as President, but continues to serve on the Board of Directors of Taylor Energy Company LLC. Mr. Rose
was the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of GlobalSantaFe Corporation from March 2004, when
he retired as an employee of GlobalSantaFe, until November 2007. Mr. Rose served as GlobalSantaFe's Executive
Chairman from 2001 until 2004, prior to which he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Global
Marine after re-joining Global Marine in 1998 and as Global Marine's Chairman from 1999 through 2001. He began
his professional career with Global Marine in 1964 and left Global Marine in 1976. Mr. Rose then held executive
positions with other offshore drilling companies, including more than a decade as President and Chief Executive
Officer of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. and its predecessor, Diamond M Company. He resigned from Diamond
Offshore in 1998 and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cardinal Services, Inc., an oil services
company, before re-joining Global Marine. Mr. Rose holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree
from Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas (1980).
MARTIN B. MCNAMARA, age 63, U.S. citizen, has served as a director of the Company since November 1994.
Mr. McNamara is a retired Partner of the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and has served as a member of
the firm's executive, finance, planning and compensation committees, as well as a Partner-in-Charge of the firm's
Texas practice. During the past ten years and prior to his retirement in 2010, Mr. McNamara was in the private
practice of law. Mr. McNamara received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 from Providence College and his law
degree in 1972 from Yale Law School. Mr. McNamara has served as the chair of the Corporate Counsel Section of
the State Bar of Texas and is a lifetime fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.
IAN C. STRACHAN, age 67, U.K. and U.S. citizen, has served as a director of the Company since December
1999. Mr. Strachan is a director of Caithness Petroleum Ltd. (since 2008), Xstrata plc (since 2003), and Rolls Royce
Group plc (since 2003). He served as a director of Johnson Matthey plc from 2002 to March 2009 and as Chairman
of the Board of Instinet Group Incorporated from January 2003 to December 2005. Mr. Strachan served as Chief
Executive Officer of BTR plc from 1996 until 1999. From 1987 to 1995, Mr. Strachan was with Rio Tinto plc,
serving as Chief Financial Officer from 1987 to 1991 and as Deputy Chief Executive Officer from 1991 to 1995. He
was employed by Exxon Corporation from 1970 to 1986. Mr. Strachan received his Master of Arts in History in
1965 from Christ's College, Cambridge University, and his Master of Public Affairs in 1967 from the Woodrow
Wilson School, Princeton University and was a teaching fellow and Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University from
1969 to 1970.
VICTOR E. GRIJALVA, age 72, U.S. citizen, has served as a director of the Company since December 1999 and
served as Chairman of our Board of Directors until October 2002. He is the retired Vice Chairman of Schlumberger
Limited. Before serving as Vice Chairman, Mr. Grijalva served as Executive Vice President of Schlumberger's
Oilfield Services division from 1994 to January 1999 and as Executive Vice President of Schlumberger's Wireline,
Testing & Anadrill division from 1992 to 1994. He is currently a director of Dynegy Inc. (since 2006) and Global
Oilfield Services (since 2009). Within the past five years, Mr. Grijalva was also an advisory director of Tenaris S.A.
from 2004 to 2006 and a director of Hanover Compressor Company from 2002 to 2006. Mr. Grijalva graduated in
1963 from Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelors degree in electrical engineering and in 1964 from the
University of Pennsylvania with a masters degree in electrical engineering.
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