Officers
| Name and Municipality of Residence | Position with First Uranium |
| Mary Batoff Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Vice President, Legal and Secretary |
| Jim Fisher Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Director |
|
Emma Oosthuizen |
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
|
Scot Sobey |
Vice President of First Uranium and Chief Operating Officer of Mine Waste Solutions |
| Deon van der Mescht Johannesburg, South Africa |
Interim President and Chief Exeuctive Officer and Director |
Biographical information regarding the executive officers of the Corporation is provided as follows:}
Mary Batoff serves as First Uranium’s Vice President, Legal and Secretary. From November 2004 to January 2007. Ms. Batoff was Vice President, Legal and Secretary of North American Palladium Ltd., a platinum group metals producer. Prior to November 2004 she was legal counsel and secretary with various publicly traded companies in the mining and exploration sector in Toronto and from 1993 to 1996 she was a corporate trust officer for Montreal Trust (now Computershare) in Toronto. Ms. Batoff was called to the Ontario Bar in February 1993 and is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, Bachelor of Laws and Queen’s University: Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education.
Jim Fisher serves as First Uranium’s Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and as a director of the Board. Mr. Fisher has over 30 years’ experience in the Southern African mining industry, including nine years on the Zambian copper belt and the rest in South Africa. Since February 2006 Mr. Fisher held various senior positions within the Simmer & Jack group, including serving as Chief Executive Officer of FUSA. From September 2001 to February 2006, Mr. Fisher provided consulting services on a number of mining and other projects, including metallurgical consulting services to Simmer & Jack. From April 1999 to September 2001, Mr. Fisher served as the Business Manager for the PDWA JV where his duties encompassed strategy and organizational development, corporate and public relations as well as the definition of and implementation of the information technology and remuneration strategy. Mr. Fisher ran the Cooke uranium plant from 1987 to 1989 as well as the Western Areas North Shaft (now Ezulwini) from 1991 to 1994. Mr. Fisher is a Chartered Engineer, a fellow of The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, a member of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a member and past President of the Mine Metallurgical Managers Association of South Africa.
Emma Oosthuizen serves as First Uranium’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, having been appointed to her current position on April 1, 2007. Immediately prior to that and from November 2004, she served as Financial Manager at Simmer & Jack and in that role she worked extensively on all aspects of First Uranium’s accounting and financial affairs both before and after the Corporation’s initial public offering. Prior to joining Simmer & Jack, Ms. Oosthuizen served as a financial manager from July 2003 to November 2004 with Randgold & Exploration Company Limited (“RGE”), which is a publicly-traded company listed in the United States and South Africa. At RGE, she was responsible for SEC filings, managing relationships with internal and external auditors and participating in audit committee meetings. Ms. Oosthuizen worked at the South African Receiver of Revenue as a VAT auditor from October 2000 to June 2003 during which time she was promoted to integrated tax auditor, where she supervised a team of six tax auditors. Ms. Oosthuizen is a CA (SA) and has a University of South Africa diploma in Auditing and an Honors Bachelors degree in Commerce from the University of Pretoria.
Scot Sobey serves as First Uranium’s Vice President, Business Development and is Chief Operating Officer of the Mine Waste Solutions tailings recovery operation. Mr. Sobey’s background lies in management consulting and project management, having spent 4 years with Gemini Consulting, followed by 2 years with PSP Icon. Mr. Sobey has developed extensive expertise in large-scale turnaround and transformation projects spanning the financial services, courier and freight, telecommunications, electricity and mining industries. From October 2005, Mr. Sobey jointly project managed (in conjunction with key Simmer and Jack leadership) the start up of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine formerly known as DRD Gold’s North West Operations. Most recently, Mr Sobey formed an integral part of First Uranium’s Offering team.
Deon van der Mescht was appointed as First Uranium's Interim President and Chief Operating Officer as of March 16, 2010. A mining engineer by profession, Deon van der Mescht has over 25 years' experience in the South African gold mining industry. Following his tenure as General Manager of DRD's Blyvooruitzicht operation, Deon was appointed Division Director of DRDGold's South African oeprations in 2003 which included Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. He joined Simmer and Jack Mines, Limited in November 2005 as Chief Operating Officer and was appointed as the managing director of Simmer and Jack's Gold Division early in 2009. In January 2010, he was appinted CEO of Simmer and Jack. Upon his appointment to First Uranium, Mr. van der Mescht has resigned from his position as CEO and as a director of Simmer and Jack.
Dated: June 10, 2010
