Mr. Russell Scrimshaw, Chairman

Russell Scrimshaw was formerly an Executive Director of Fortescue Metals Group Limited (“Fortescue”) and has been a member of the Fortescue Board since 2003. He has played an integral role in the commercial development of Fortescue and its Pilbara project.

Mr. Scrimshaw was previously a board member of Commonwealth Properties Ltd, EDS Australia, Mobilesoft Ltd, Telecom New Zealand Australia Pty Ltd, The Garvan Institute Foundation and Athletics Australia and has also held senior executive positions within the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Optus Communications Pty Ltd, Alcatel, IBM and Amdahl USA.

In addition, Mr Scrimshaw is an Associate Member of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants, and an Adjunct Professor of Mining Economics at China Central South University in Changsha, China. He is the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

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Mr. Chris Fraser, Managing Director and CEO

Chris Fraser has approximately 16 years finance experience in the mining industry. During this time he worked for Citigroup (2000-2009), Rothschild (1998-2000) and KPMG (1995-1998) and has market leading expertise in all aspects of thnome financing and development of major mining projects.

Having joined Citigroup in 2000, he was appointed Head of Metals and Mining Investment Banking for Australia in 2006 and Managing Director in 2008. In these roles he led the bank to become one of the leading investment banking franchises in the mining industry in Australia. In particular he was the lead adviser on the US$2.5 billion initial development capital financing for Fortescue Metals Group (FMG). He has provided strategic advice to many of the world’s leading mining companies including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, WMC Resources and Paladin Energy.

In 2009 Chris Fraser founded Sigiriya Capital, a specialist advisory and investment house focused on the resources sector, and in 2010 founded York Potash Ltd. to undertake the exploration and development of the York Potash Project.

Chris Fraser holds a Bachelor in Commerce from the University of Western Australia. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountantsin Australia. In addition, he is a Senior Associate of the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FINSIA) and a member of the Institute of Company Directors in Australia.

Chris is responsible for overseeing the execution of the Group’s strategy.

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Mr. Andrew Lindsay, Finance Director and CFO

Andrew Lindsay has over 25 years experience in the mining industry. Between 2003 and 2010 he was the Finance Director at European Nickel plc during which time he saw its Admission onto AIM in 2004, which was accompanied by a £15 million raise; its £84 million placing in 2006; and the US$50 million acquisition of interests in Toledo Mining and Berong Nickel in 2008.

In addition, Mr Lindsay initiated the agreement for US$325 million of project financing for its Caldag project in 2010. Prior to European Nickel, Andrew Lindsay held a series of business development and corporate finance management roles within the Anglo-American Group between 1985 and 2002, based in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and Chile.

He has the responsibility for the relationship with the auditor and tax advisors, company secretarial and financial accounting issues, as well as for the financial assessment of any proposed acquisitions

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Mr. Chris Catlow, Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman

Chris Catlow is a highly experienced executive in the international resources industry, having worked on the development and operations of oil and gas, hard rock and sand mining projects over a 25 year career. He played a central role in the formation of Iluka Resources Limited and most recently was a senior executive of the ASX-listed iron ore mining company Fortescue Metals Group Limited (ASX:FMG www.fmgl.com.au), since shortly after its formation in 2003.

During his seven years at Fortescue, initially as its inaugural Chief Financial Officer and then as its Investment and Business Development Director, the company financed and brought into production its major iron ore mining, processing and port facility in Western Australia’s Pilbara region which today produces over 100,000 tonnes of iron ore a day. The development established Fortescue as Australia’s third largest iron ore producer behind Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.

Chris Catlow has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Durham University in the United Kingdom, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. He was appointed Chairman of Sirius Minerals in April 2010 and is a member of the the Audit Committee and oversees the Group’s strategy for commercialising its assets.

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Sir David Higgins

Sir David Hartmann Higgins, is currently the Chief Executive of Network Rail, the Authority responsible for the United Kingdom's rail network with an asset value of £40bn.  Previously David was the Chief Executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority ("ODA") from March 2006 until January 2011 responsible for Venues, Infrastructure and Spectator Transport for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralymic Games with a budget of £8bn. Prior to this, he was Chief Executive of English Partnerships, the Government's National Regeneration Agency for three years.

Earlier in his career, David was the Managing Director and Chief Executive of Lend Lease Group, a global property and infrastructure company. David graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney and also holds a Diploma from the Securities Institute of Australia.

David was knighted in 2011.

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John Matthew Patrick Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness

Lord Hutton was a distinguished member of the Government for thirteen years from 1997 to 2010, including eleven years as a Minister and four years serving on the Cabinet. He was appointed Chairman of the Independent Public Service Pensions Commission established by the current Government in June 2010.

Lord Hutton was a legal adviser to the Confederation of Business Industry in the late 1970s before becoming a senior law lecturer at Newcastle Polytechnic. In 1992 he was elected to the Barrow and Furness seat in Cumbria where he remained as MP until he stood down at the 2010 general election.

In Lord Hutton's varied career in Government, he served first as a Permanent Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of Trade and Industry before becoming Leader of the House of Commons and then moving to the Department of Health in 1998 where he became Minister of State for Health in 1999, a position he held until 2005.

In 2005 Lord Hutton was briefly appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of the Cabinet Office before being made Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. In 2007 Lord Hutton was appointed Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. In 2008 he became Secretary of State for Defence until he stepped down from the Cabinet in 2009. Following the general election in 2010 he was created a life peer as Baron Hutton of Furness and now sits in the House of Lords.

In June 2010 the current Conservative Government appointed Lord Hutton as Chairman of the Independent Public Service Pensions Commission, which delivered its final report in March 2011.

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Professor Michael Mainelli, Non-Executive Director

Professor Mainelli is Chairman of Z/Yen, the UK’s leading risk/reward group, where he has worked since 1994 on strategy, technology, finance and business development. He started his career as a research scientist in aerospace and computer graphics and then spent seven years as a partner in a leading accountancy firm directing much of their consultancy work in the UK and overseas.

Michael’s natural resources experience dates back to 1979 where his early research work led to him starting companies in seismology, cartography and oil & gas information for a Swiss firm. In the early 1980’s Michael initiated and ran the Swiss firm’s multi-million dollar oil industry consortium (Shell, BP, Chevron and Elf Aquitaine were primary partners plus 10 minor partners) to digitise the world which culminated in the development of Geodat and Mundocart, oil industry standard sets of cartographic data at scales from 1:50,000 to 1:1,000,000 and over 60 million geographic features.

Dr Mainelli has worked for public, private and not-for-profits companies, led several privatisation projects, was Chief Scientist of the DTI Foresight Challenge award-winning Financial Laboratory, and Corporate Development Director on the board of Europe’s largest R&D organisation – the 12,000 strong Defence Evaluation and Research Agency of the UK’s Ministry of Defence.

He brings independent advice.

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Peter Woods, Non-Executive Director

Peter Woods is a consulting geologist and engineer with extensive experience in the potash industry having worked for 13 years as Chief Geologist at the Boulby Potash Mine in North Yorkshire, initially on its development and start-up.  Since leaving Boulby, Peter has consulted to a number of potash companies and projects including Selection Trust on the Red Sea potash project in Saudi Arabia and for two years on the Environmental Protection Scheme for the ASEAN potash project in Thailand.  In addition he has reviewed potash projects in Spain and Russia.  He has been advising York Potash Ltd since its establishment and has continued to do so following its acquisition by Sirius in January 2011.

In addition to Peter’s potash knowledge he has the valuable experience of serving as one of the Secretary of State’s Appointees on the North York Moors National Park Planning Committee from 1996 to 1999 and has lived in the area, on and off, for over 40 years.

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