Board of Directors

MR MICHAEL FOWLER

B.Bus (Acc), Finsia (Fellow)

Executive chairman

Michael Fowler was a founding Director of Nexus and has been a board member since the company listed on the ASX in September 2000. In November 2007 he was appointed chairman of the board and in May 2009 assumed an Executive role. Mr Fowler has over 20 years experience in the financial services sector. He began his career working for chartered accounting firms in Melbourne before leaving to join a private family investment group in the mid 1990s where he furthered his career by joining their board. Mr Fowler left that group to start the Treasury Group of Companies, a funds management company, with the Victor Smorgon Group in 1999. That business grew to have some $1.2 billion of funds under management and was taken over by an ASX 200 financial services company in early 2005. Mr Fowler also established the Maximum Capital Group of Companies which specialises in property finance and related investment products and services.

MR NEIL FERGUSON
B.Sc Hons (Mech Eng.)

Non-executive director

Neil Ferguson was appointed to the board of Nexus on 17 May 2007. Mr Ferguson is a former BHP Billiton Petroleum senior executive with 35 years experience in executing major offshore oil and gas projects. He has held senior engineering and management positions with British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, Mobil, Woodside and BHP Billiton Petroleum. Mr Ferguson's last position was vice president of BHP Petroleum's Liverpool Bay business unit in the UK. In his career at BHP Petroleum, Mr Ferguson was involved at a senior level in a number of the Timor Sea developments including the Jabiru, Challis, Skua and Elang Kakatua fields.

MR MICHAEL ARNETT
B.Com, LL.B

Non-executive director
Michael Arnett was appointed to the board of Nexus on 28 May 2009. Mr Arnett has more than 20 years experience in the areas of capital raising, corporate, commercial, banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions and securities. He is a consultant to and former partner of international law firm Deacons predominantly consulting on mining, resources and oil and gas law. Current directorships held by Mr Arnett include Archipelago Resources Plc, Archipelago Metals Limited, Cloncurry Metals Limited, New Guinea Energy Limited, NRW Holdings Limited and Queensland Energy Resources Limited. Previously Mr Arnett held the position of chairman for Anzon Energy Limited and director of Anzon Australia Limited.

MR IAN BOSERIO

B.Sc Hons (Geophysics), B.Sc (Geology)

Non-executive director

Ian Boserio was appointed to the board of Nexus on 19 November 2009. Mr Boserio has more than 25 years international experience in the oil and gas business focusing predominantly on exploration. He has spent the majority of his career with Shell including roles in Australia, North Sea, Middle East, India and Indonesia, and five years with Woodside as the Australia exploration manager. Mr Boserio's last position at Shell was as the Australian new business manager, prior to that he led the Shell Australia and NZ exploration team growing its gas portfolio for LNG development.

MR STEVEN LOWDEN

B.Sc, Master of Petroleum Engineering

Non-executive director

Steven Lowden was appointed to the board of Nexus on 19 November 2009. Mr Lowden has over 25 years experience in the international oil and gas industry across exploration, development, production and gas liquefaction. Throughout his career in the oil industry Mr Lowden has worked in the North Sea, Middle East, South East Asia and North Africa. Mr Lowden has previously held positions with Premier Oil plc, including chief petroleum engineer, general manager for development and production and an executive director of the board, and, more recently at Marathon Oil Company as president of Marathon International, head of corporate business development and an officer of the company. Since late 2005 Mr Lowden has been involved with two private energy businesses focusing on assets in Africa.

MR SYMON DRAKE-BROCKMAN

B.Com

Non-executive director

Symon Drake-Brockman was appointed to the board of Nexus on 19 November 2009. Mr Drake-Brockman has over 20 years of finance experience covering both the debt and equity markets. He was formerly chief executive officer of RBS Global Banking and Markets in the Americas and chief executive officer of RBS Greenwich Capital, Global head of RBS' Debt Markets division and board member of RBS Global Banking and Markets. Mr Drake-Brockman previously held senior positions with ING Barings and JP Morgan in London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.