Executive Officers

• J. Neal Butler, President and Chief Executive Officer

  Mr. J. Neal Butler is a member of the Board of Directors and is our President and CEO. He joined us in 2004 as Chief Operating Officer. He became our President in March 2005, and became the CEO in June 2007. Mr. Butler has worked in various capacities for agricultural chemical companies since 1976. From 1976 to 1998 he worked for ISK Biosciences, Inc. in sales and in operations, becoming Vice President and General Manager/Americas in the specialty chemical division. From 1998 to 2001, he was Vice President and team leader for Horticulture for Zeneca Agrichemicals, Inc., a leading agricultural products chemical company. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Butler was President and CEO of Naturize Biosciences, Inc., a company providing biological products for agriculture, and from 2003 until he joined us he did consulting in the agricultural chemicals industry.

• John V. Sobchak, Chief Financial Officer

  Mr. John V. Sobchak was employed in 2001 as KMG Chemicals’ Chief Financial Officer. Before he joined the company, Mr. Sobchak had been the CFO of Novistar, Inc., a joint venture between Torch Energy Advisors, Inc. and Oracle Corporation and prior to that he had been the Treasurer of Torch Energy Advisors, Inc. He was employed from 1988 to 1997 by Mesa, Inc., a publicly traded oil and gas company, most recently as its Treasurer.

• Ernest C. Kremling II, Vice President of Operations

  Mr. Ernest Kremling became KMG’s Vice President of Operations in 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Kremling spent 20 years with the Dow Chemical Company in various manufacturing roles, which included project management and plant and site leadership. During the course of his employment with Dow, he worked in Asia for several years and held positions of global responsibility that covered Asia, Europe and South America.

• Roger C. Jackson, General Counsel and Secretary

  Mr. Roger C. Jackson was elected Secretary of KMG Chemicals in 2001 and became Vice President and General Counsel of KMG in 2002. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Jackson had been a partner since 1995 in Woods & Jackson, L.L.P. and had been a partner in the Houston law firm Brown, Parker & Leahy L.L.P. beginning in 1985. He had joined that firm as an associate in 1978.