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Brief biographies of the Directors are set out below.

Bill Nairn
BSc (Eng)
Non-Executive Chairman
Bill was appointed Chief Executive and Managing Director of JCI Limited in 1994. He joined Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited in 1997, when he was appointed an Executive Director. In January 2000, he was appointed Group Technical Director of Anglo American PLC and retired from that board at the end of 2004. Bill has remained a non-executive director of Anglo Platinum, AngloGold Ashanti, Boart Longyear and Kumba, as well as serving on various boards’ Safety and Sustainable Development committees.

Rob Still
BCom (Hons), CA (SA), IMM
Deputy Chairman
Rob started his career as a chartered accountant, becoming a partner of Ernst and Whinney before leaving in 1986 to co-found Rhombus Exploration Limited, a Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed exploration and mining company. Since that time he has been involved in both the senior and junior sectors of the mining industry worldwide and has held both executive and non-executive director positions in mining and exploration companies listed in South Africa, Australia, Canada and the UK. In this time he has participated in the development of several new mining projects including Rhovan, Pangea Goldfields, Southern Mining (Corridor Sands), Great Basin Gold (Burnstone) and Zimbabwe Platinum Mines Ltd.

Brett Thompson
B. Eng – Mining (Hons), Grad Dip Applied Finance & Investment, FSAIMM, MAusIMM, MMCert – RSA, MMCert – QLD, Aust.
Chief Executive Officer
After qualifying as a mining engineer in 1983 in Sydney, Australia, Mr Thompson joined Mount Isa Mines. In 1988 he relocated to South Africa where he joined De Beers, gaining extensive experience in both underground and open pit mining of kimberlite deposits, as well as the mining of marine and alluvial deposits. In the mid to late 1990s Mr Thompson spent time working with Ashanti Goldfields Co Limited as a Chief Mining Engineer at Obuasi Mine in Ghana, as Senior Group Mining Engineer for Minorco South America in Brazil and as Consulting Mining Engineer to AngloGold South America’s operations until 2001. Upon his return to South Africa, he has worked with a number of diamond mines including a time as Assistant General Manager for De Beers’ Kimberley mines. Mr Thompson was later appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Energem Mining where he was accountable for the executive management of all aspects of Energem’s diamond mining operations and exploration activities internationally in Sierra Leone, CAR and Angola. In May 2006 he took up his current position with Pangea DiamondFields.

Patrick Cooke
B. Com (Wits), CA (SA)
Chief Financial Officer
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Patrick worked as a management consultant with one of the large accounting companies and later for a merchant bank. He has been responsible for listing companies on the main board of the JSE and was the Group Financial Director of GlenrandMIB Limited, a JSE listed company. His industry experience is wide having been involved in information technology, FMCG, financial services and professional services companies. Patrick has been involved with the group initially as a consultant on the Burnstone Project and the vending of that project to a Canadian listed company and has recently joined PDF as Chief Financial Officer.

Miles Kennedy
B. Juris – Solicitor – Supreme Court of Western Australia, High Court of Australia, High Court of South Africa, High Court of Lesotho
Non-Executive Director
Miles is a lawyer who lives in Perth, Western Australia. He has been a director of publicly listed companies in Australia and New Zealand since 1983. He founded and was Chairman of Macraes Mining Company (now known as Oceana Gold) in New Zealand in 1988 taking it from a grass roots gold exploration company to production. It remains New Zealand’s biggest gold company and has produced over 2 million ounces of gold since 1990. After leaving Macraes in 1993, he founded Kimberly Diamond Company (Kimberly). That year and after 9 years of exploration, commenced diamond production on the Ellendale Diamond Field, West Kimberly region of Western Australia in 2002. Miles is the Executive Chairman of Kimberly. Kimberly is treating a processing 7.7 million tones of ore a year, a producing around 600,000 carats of high value diamonds. In August 2004 he consolidated ownership of 7 different tenement holders of the Ellendale field under the single ownership of Blina Diamonds NL of which is the non-executive Chairman. Blina operates 3 diamond recovery plants and is expected to come into full commercial production by 2007. Miles is the non-executive Chairman of Marine Produce Australia, which is nearing commercial production of black tiger prawns and salt-water barramundi fish.

Dewald Joubert
BCom LLB, Adv Cert Tax
Non-Executive Director
Dewald is an admitted South Africa advocate presently practicing as a Registered Legal Practitioner in the Isle of Man office of Maitland & Co, where he is a director of the firm. Dewald’s experience relates to advising multi-national groups on international tax and corporate governance matters. In addition, he serves as a director on the boards and subsidiary structures of some of the groups he advises, where he participates in oversight of treasury and trading operations. Dewald previously worked with Arthur Andersen’s South African practice. He also serves as a director of a number of companies in his capacity as an office of Maitland Trust, an Isle of Man licensed corporate service provider.

Ashley Dunster
B.Eng, Masters (Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis)
Non-Executive Director
Ashley is a vice president of Capital International Research, Inc. with responsibility for private equity in Central and Eastern Europe and Africa. Prior to joining Capital International in 1997, he spent four years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he was a principal banker in the Early Stage Equity Team with private equity responsibilities covering Russia, Kazakhstan, Hungary and Slovenia. Before that, Mr Dunster was an associate consultant at The L | E | K Partnership, an international strategy consulting firm; during his four years at L | E | K, he worked on mergers and acquisitions transactions, corporate strategy, and privatisation and restructuring mandates in Poland. Ashley received a BE in civil engineering from the University of Melbourne, and a Masters degree in mathematics from Oxford University. He is based in London.

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