Officers
| Name and Municipality of Residence | Position with First Uranium |
| Mary Batoff Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Vice President, Legal and Secretary |
|
Emma Oosthuizen |
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
|
Scot R. Sobey |
Executive Vice President |
| Deon T. van der Mescht Johannesburg, South Africa |
President, Chief Executive 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.
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 R. Sobey serves as First Uranium's Executive Vice President having been appointed to his current position in December 2010. From June 2009 to December 2010, Mr. Sobey was Chief Operating Officer of Mine Waste Solutions. Immediately prior to June 2009 and since February 2007, Mr. Sobey was Vice President, Business Development. 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 & Jack leadership) the start up of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine formerly known as DRD Gold's North West Operations. Mr Sobey formed an integral part of First Uranium's Offering team.
Deon T. van der Mescht serves as First Uranium's President and Chief Executive Officer since being appointed in an interim capacity on March 16, 2010 which appointment was confirmed on May 6, 2010. Mr. van der Mescht resigned from his position as Chief Executive Officer of Simmer & Jack on March 16, 2010. Mr. van der Mescht joined Simmer & Jack in November 2005 as Chief Operating Officer. He was appointed the managing director of Simmer and Jack's Gold Division early in 2009 and held the position until he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Simmer & Jack in January 2010. Following his tenure as General Manager of DRD's Blyvooruitzicht operation, Deon was appointed Division Director of DRDGold's South African operations in 2003 which included Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. A mining engineer by profession, Deon van der Mescht has over 25 years experience in the South African gold mining industry.
Dated: August 2011
