# David Brink

General Manager – Operations

## Career chronology

- **Appointed 25 August 2025: Alligator Energy Limited** — General Manager – Operations. [Alligator Energy Limited Annual Report 2026](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/alligator-energy-limited/annual-report/2026/64484580/>) (p. 39; remuneration note)

- **Role identified in UNSW report in November 2022; full start and end dates not established: Beach Energy** — Completion and Well Intervention Manager. [SPE UNSW student chapter conference and Beach Energy visit](<https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2022/11/spe-unsw-student-chapter-attends-spe-asia-pacific-oil-gas-conference>) (panel discussion during 2022 Beach Energy visit)

## Contributions and company outcomes

### Operations tenure overlapped on-schedule FRT construction and uranium recovery trial [david_brink_frt]

Aug 2025–Jul 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Brink’s appointment on 25 August 2025 preceded construction, commissioning and the FRT operating period. The company reported practical completion in line with schedule in December 2025, approximately 70% recovery for Pattern 1 before it was shut down after gypsum scaling, and Pattern 2 achieved about 17% recovery over 15 PVEs after technical objectives were met. Brink’s remit covered operational management and project delivery across Samphire and the exploration portfolio; the report does not isolate his decisions or assert that the project is commercially proven.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The CEO/annual report documents operations responsibility and overlapping dates; causal responsibility for individual milestone and process results is not established.

**Relevance:** Relevant operational execution evidence. The trial did not demonstrate commercial-scale viability or commercial production.

[Alligator Energy Limited Annual Report 2026](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/alligator-energy-limited/annual-report/2026/64484580/>) (pp. 10, 13–15, 39; remuneration note); [Alligator Energy Annual Report 2025](<https://newsfile.futunn.com/public/NN-PersistNoticeAttachment/7781/20250925/ASX-FTP-2A1624026.PDF>) (p. 17)

## Suitability for the current role

### Three decades of international upstream operations experience [david_brink_role_fit]

Career to Aug 2025 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The company reports more than 30 years of international upstream oil and gas leadership. FY2025 report gives BEng Mechanical Engineering. A detailed employer-by-employer chronology and degree institution were not established from opened primary sources.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Issuer reporting supports experience and degree; detailed tenure chronology remains incomplete.

**Relevance:** Operations/project experience transfers to trial construction and wellfield operations, but uranium ISR is a specialized process and commercial outcome remains unproven.

[Alligator Energy Limited Annual Report 2026](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/alligator-energy-limited/annual-report/2026/64484580/>) (p. 39); [Alligator Energy Annual Report 2025](<https://newsfile.futunn.com/public/NN-PersistNoticeAttachment/7781/20250925/ASX-FTP-2A1624026.PDF>) (p. 17)

## Evidence gaps

- Exact dates and attributed outcomes at prior employers remain incomplete.

- No reviewed evidence established a person-specific fraud, safety, environmental or legal finding beyond those stated above; open-web searches are not exhaustive checks.

- Employer compliance histories and credential registers have not been comprehensively checked.

- Earlier person/topic search logs were inherited from the historical report and could not be independently verified. The October 31 review used broad searches; topic-specific records, full employer histories and independent credential checks remain incomplete.

- A prior report listed several earlier employers without supporting source references; only the documented 2022 Beach Energy role is retained.