New leadership for Boart LongyearPaul Brunner, managing director of Boart Longyear, has been appointed president and chief executive officer, effective January, 2004, to follow the retirement of chairman Michael Moore. Other key appointments are Philip Baum, non-executive chairman; Mike Jagoe, regional director for the Americas (in addition to his current job as global director for Coring Tools & Equipment); Kevin Vaughan, SVP for Europe; Holm Oostveen, regional director for Europe, CIS, Middle East and North Africa; and Peter Fordyce, global manufacturing director.The Boart Longyear group is a leading supplier of products, systems and services to the mining, construction and quarrying industries and industrial markets, mainly utilizing its own hardmetal and diamond technologies. For more, click on the Boart Longyear logolink in the panel alongside, or visit www.boartlongyear.com 48/03.