# Richard Steenhof General Counsel and Company Secretary ## Career chronology - **current at 31 October 2026; start date disclosed only where cited: Alkane Resources** — General Counsel and Company Secretary. [Appointment of Joint Company Secretary]() (p.1) - **2021 to 19 January 2024: Resolute Mining** — General Counsel and Company Secretary. [Annual Report 2023]() (leadership team biography) ## Education and qualifications ### Reported qualifications and evidence limits [richard-steenhof-education] Education disclosed in cited source · issuer reported · low materiality Resolute annual report lists an LLB with distinction; independent qualification confirmation was not obtained. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Professional credentials are reported in the source; validation against a primary institutional register was not obtained. **Relevance:** Qualification and role fit assessment. [Annual Report 2023]() (Named personnel and qualifications or biography) ## Suitability for the current role ### Experience relevant to disclosed responsibilities [richard-steenhof-fit] Career through 31 October 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality Analyst inference: Joined Alkane as General Counsel in February 2026 and company secretary in April; previously Resolute general counsel and secretary 2021–January 2024. The linked sources do not establish the individual’s causal contribution to every operational or corporate outcome. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Role relevance is an inference; employer results do not establish an individual track record. **Relevance:** Matches disclosed responsibilities to observed career, with attribution limits. [Appointment of Joint Company Secretary]() (p.1); [Management]() (Management list) ## Evidence gaps - Independent verification of reported qualifications and full employer/appointment chronology was not obtained. - Open-web searches are limited; company events do not establish individual responsibility. - Separate topic-specific adverse and prior-employer searches were not completed; the combined batched search results were truncated, so this screening is incomplete.