Directors

The Board of Flinders Mines Limited consists of three experienced Directors with a balanced background including considerable management expertise in the minerals and diamond exploration industry.

Robert Kennedy – Chairman
Dr Kevin Wills – Managing Director and CEO
Ewan Vickery – Director
Richard Willson – Company Secretary

Robert Kennedy, Kevin Wills, Ewan Vickery and Richard Willson are all Adelaide-based.

Robert Kennedy, Non Executive Chairman
ASAIT, Grad, Dip (Systems Analysis), FCA, ACIS, Life Member AIM, FAICD

A Chartered Accountant and a consultant to Kennedy & Co, Chartered Accountants, a firm he founded. Mr Kennedy is the Chairman of Beach Petroleum Limited, Maximus Resources Limited, Ramelius Resources Limited, GTL Energy Limited, and Monax Mining Limited. He is also a Director of the Friendly Societies Medical Association Limited.

Mr Kennedy’s appointment to public company boards has been to provide an independent view. His background as an official liquidator, management consultant and in litigation support has provided the necessary skills for that purpose. He has also been involved in making takeover offers and defending them. Mr Kennedy’s appointment as Chairman of several public and private company boards is a result of his inclusive leadership style and his emphasis on corporate governance.

Kevin Wills, Managing Director
ARSM, PhD, FAusIMM

Dr Kevin Wills is a geologist with 31 years experience in multi commodity mineral exploration including uranium exploration, feasibility studies and mine operations in Australasia. Dr Wills spent seven years with CRA Exploration Pty Ltd, the highlight of which was involvement with the location and evaluation of the Argyle Diamond Deposit. Later, with Penarroya Australia Pty Ltd, his work led to an expansion of reserves at Thalanga and the discovery of the Waterloo base metals deposit.

In the late 1980s, Dr Wills was exploration manager with Metana Minerals NL. He built up a successful exploration team which extended known gold orebodies and made new discoveries. In the early 1990s Dr Wills was regional exploration manager with Dominion Mining Ltd, based in Adelaide. His work on the Gawler Craton led to the development of a calcrete sampling technique which, later on, was instrumental in the Challenger gold discovery.

Recently, Dr Wills resigned as a founding director of Adelaide Resources Ltd and he is currently managing director of Maximus Resources Limited. He is a recent past chairman of the Adelaide Branch of the AusIMM and the Exploration Committee at the South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy.

Ewan Vickery, Director
LL.B — Adelaide, South Australia

Mr Vickery is a corporate and business lawyer with over 30 years experience in private practice in Adelaide. He has acted as an advisor to companies on a variety of corporate and business issues including capital and corporate restructuring, native title and land access issues, and as lead native title advisor and negotiator for numerous mining and petroleum companies.

Mr Vickery is a Director of Maximus Resources Limited and member of the Legislation and Land Access Committee of the South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy Inc, the International Bar Association Energy and Resources Law Section, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is a past national president of Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association (AMPLA) Limited.

Richard Walter Cumming Willson, Company Secretary
B.Ac., CPA, MAICD

Mr Willson - Bachelor of Accounting, CPA, Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Mr Willson has had more than 12 years experience. He has worked in public practice and in various financial management and company secretarial roles within the Provimi Australia group, BHP Billiton and the Jumbuck Pastoral group. He has been the Company Secretary since 2 March 2006 and to the date of this report.

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