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Infomedia Limited, Legal Consultant - Board Support, 2004 – 2007 Responsibilities and Achievements The role involves facilitating the Company’s corporate governance initiatives and to provide high level support to the Board, its Committee’s and to the executive management team in areas relating to corporate governance. I established strong working relationships with all members of the Board and with the Company’s senior executives (and in particular the CEO, CFO, General Counsel, HR Manager and Marketing Manager). In the course of this role, I have: prepared numerous advices for both members of the Board and the executive management team on topics which include: "Requirement” for majority of independent directors and nature of independence, Board composition and suggested selection criteria, Executive options, AGM Preparation – possible questions and suggested answers, Commencing and returning from maternity leave; researched and written numerous reports for the Board and the Board Committees, including: Report on board self-assessment, Report on executive & board remuneration, Report on Nonexecutive director remuneration; finalised all corporate governance charter and policy documents adopted in response to the ‘ASX Corporate Governance Council Guidelines’; researched and written numerous supporting governance policies for example, Director nomination and induction policy, Concern reporting policy, Selection, appointment and rotation of external auditor, Grievance resolution policy; provided support to the Chair of the Board and the Chairs of the three sub- committees in drafting meeting agendas, researching and preparing meeting papers, preparing minutes and all related tasks; prepared each annual Corporate Governance Statement for publication in the Annual Report and on the Company’s website; prepared materials relating to each Annual General Meeting (including, Notice of Meeting and Explanatory Statement, Chairman’s Script); conducted periodic, company-wide reviews of key governance documents - by taking a snapshot of each document’s effectiveness by sounding randomly selected representative samples of employees to test how well the existence, purpose and operating framework of the relevant corporate governance document was understood, reporting findings to the Corporate Governance Committee and to the Board, making recommendations for

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Infomedia Limited, Legal Consultant - Board Support, 2004 – 2007 Responsibilities and Achievements

The role involves facilitating the Company’s corporate governance initiatives and to provide high level support to the Board, its Committee’s and to the executive management team in areas relating to corporate governance. I established strong working relationships with all members of the Board and with the Company’s senior executives (and in particular the CEO, CFO, General Counsel, HR Manager and Marketing Manager).

In the course of this role, I have:

prepared numerous advices for both members of the Board and the executive management team on

topics which include: "Requirement” for majority of independent directors and nature of independence, Board composition and suggested selection criteria, Executive options, AGM Preparation – possible questions and suggested answers, Commencing and returning from maternity leave;

researched and written numerous reports for the Board and the Board Committees, including: Report

on board self-assessment, Report on executive & board remuneration, Report on Nonexecutive director remuneration;

finalised all corporate governance charter and policy documents adopted in response to the ‘ASX Corporate Governance Council Guidelines’;

researched and written numerous supporting governance policies for example, Director nomination and induction policy, Concern reporting policy, Selection, appointment and rotation of external auditor, Grievance resolution policy;

provided support to the Chair of the Board and the Chairs of the three sub- committees in drafting meeting agendas, researching and preparing meeting papers, preparing minutes and all related tasks;

prepared each annual Corporate Governance Statement for publication in the Annual Report and on the Company’s website;

prepared materials relating to each Annual General Meeting (including, Notice of Meeting and Explanatory Statement, Chairman’s Script);

conducted periodic, company-wide reviews of key governance documents - by taking a snapshot of each document’s effectiveness by sounding randomly selected representative samples of employees to test how well the existence, purpose and operating framework of the relevant corporate governance document was understood, reporting findings to the Corporate Governance Committee and to the Board, making recommendations for improvement and where those recommendations were adopted, implementing them;

had a leading role in the development and implementation of FY2006 Board Self-Assessment and subsequent Board Report and recommendations and then driving the implementation of those recommendations (for example, developing a more formalised succession plan at both Board and CEO levels, developing guidelines for directors’ Continuing Education); and

as a representative of the Corporate Governance Committee, worked with representatives of the Audit & Risk Committee and with Senior Management to develop a question and answer assessment document that examined the effectiveness of the Company’s initial risk management initiatives. Once completed, this assessment bridged the gap between the FY2006 Risk Management Plan and the FY2007 Risk Management Plan and now forms part of the annual risk management review cycle; and

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had a leading role in the development of selection criteria for Board and Committee appointments and assisted the Chair of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee in the conduct of a non-executive director searches from candidate identification through to preparation for interview.