Richard Beyer has served on our board of directors since April 2017. Mr. Beyer has served as Deputy Director of KNOT since 2011 and has been a member of the board of directors of the Partnership’s general partner and KNOT UK since 2013. Currently Mr. Beyer is Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President and General Counsel of NYK Group Europe Limited and is a Director of NYK Energy Transport (Atlantic) Limited, NYK Line’s London based energy shipping business. Mr. Beyer joined NYK Line in 2007, initially advising its LNG and Offshore Business Groups in London and Tokyo before taking responsibility for the LNG chartering and business development team of NYK Energy Transport (Atlantic) Limited. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Beyer was a Senior Legal Advisor to BP Shipping Limited, and prior to that he was a shipping finance specialist at London based international law firms Stephenson Harwood and Norton Rose. Mr. Beyer is an English qualified lawyer.