Director Profiles

Mr Mervyn Greene

Chairman & Non-Executive Director

Mr Greene is an investment banker and entrepreneur who has worked in the US, Europe and Africa for more than 20 years. Between 1997 and 2005 Mr Greene was the London based partner of Irwin Jacobs Greene (IJG), one of Namibia's premier stockbroking, private equity and corporate finance advisory firms. As part of its business IJG was involved in a number of capital raisings for Namibian State enterprises.

Mr Greene has had broad experience in a range of corporate transactions both in Namibia and abroad and is involved in a non-executive capacity in a number of public and private businesses in Ireland and the UK. In the early stages of his career, before doing an MBA in the London Business School in 1992, Mr Greene worked for Morgan Stanley in New York and London.

Mr Greene was appointed to the Deep Yellow Board in November 2006 and became Chairman in August 2007.

Mr Patrick Mutz

Managing Director

Patrick has more than 30 years of experience within the international uranium mining industry across executive, managerial and technical roles in the United States, Germany and Australia.

Prior to joining Deep Yellow, he was Managing Director for Alliance Resources Limited, 25% owner of the world-class Four Mile Uranium project in South Australia. Four Mile is currently being developed by Alliance and its joint venture partner Quasar Resources Pty Ltd. Four Mile is considered the largest uranium discovery in Australia in the past 25 years.

In previous roles in Australia, Patrick was Managing Director of Uranium Exploration Australia Limited and prior to that, Managing Director of Operations for Heathgate Resources Pty Ltd. Heathgate is an affiliate of General Atomics (USA) and is the owner and operator of the Beverley Uranium Mine in South Australia.

Beverley is Australia's only, and one of the world's largest and most advanced, in-situ uranium mining operations. Patrick was responsible for all aspects of Heathgate's operations in Australia including affiliate Quasar Resources' exploration activities. Quasar discovered the Four Mile uranium deposit in 2005. He was also intimately involved with the introduction and demonstration of in-situ (ISL) mining technology in Australia in the late 1990's at Beverley as part of the development of the project. ISL mining started at Beverley in 2000 and continues today.

Mr Mutz is a Registered Environmental Manager (REM) through the National Registry of Environmental Professionals (NREP) in the USA and holds a Masters of Business Administration in Global Business Management (MBA/GM) from the University of Phoenix, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Business Management (BS/BM) with honours. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), a 25+ year member of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Mr Mutz joined the Deep Yellow Board in March 2010.

Mr Martin Kavanagh

Executive Director

Mr Kavanagh has worked widely within the exploration and mining industry throughout Australia and offshore in Indonesia and the Southwest Pacific regions. He is an exploration geologist with 37 years extensive experience acquired through fieldwork, research and management of Australia-wide and offshore programmes.

Mr Kavanagh joined the Deep Yellow Board in October 2005.

Ms Gillian Swaby

Non-Executive Director

Ms Swaby has been involved in financial and corporate administration, as both Director and Company Secretary covering a broad range of industry sectors for over 25 years. Ms Swaby has extensive experience in the area of secretarial practice, management accounting and corporate and financial management and sits on a number of advisory committees. Ms Swaby is currently the Company Secretary of Paladin Resources Ltd and was a member of the Paladin Board for a period of 9 years. Ms Swaby is the principal of a corporate consulting company and past Chair of the Western Australia Council of Chartered Secretaries of Australia and a former Director on their National Board.

Ms Swaby joined the Deep Yellow Board in October 2005.

Mr Rudolf Brunovs

Non-Executive Director

Mr Brunovs is a former audit partner of the International Chartered Accounting firm Ernst & Young and practiced in a number of offices in Australia and overseas. For a total period of twelve years he held the position of Managing Partner of the Parramatta NSW and subsequently the Perth office of the firm. He was a member of the Minerals and Energy Division with Ernst & Young.

Mr Brunovs was appointed to the Deep Yellow Board in August 2007.

Mr Tony McDonald

Non-Executive Director

Mr McDonald is a lawyer and has been in private practice in Queensland for over 20 years. He has been a legal advisor to a number of resource based listed and unlisted companies and has been a director and corporate secretary of ASX listed companies. He is presently a Non-Executive Director of ASX listed Planet Gas Limited.

Mr McDonald was appointed to the Deep Yellow Board in August 2007.

Mr Mark Pitts

Company Secretary

Mr Pitts is a Chartered Accountant with over twenty years experience in statutory reporting and business administration. He has been directly involved with, and consulted to a number of public companies holding senior financial management positions.

Mr Pitts is a Partner in the advisory firm Endeavour Corporate (Endeavour). Endeavour offers professional services focused on Company Secretarial support; corporate advice; supervision of ASIC and ASX reporting and compliance requirements; and commercial and financial support. Endeavour acts for a number of ASX listed and unlisted Public Companies including Deep Yellow Limited.