# Joanna Kiernan Company Secretary ## Career chronology - **Current at cutoff; start date not established: Asara Resources** — Company Secretary. [2025 Annual Report]() (directors/company secretary); [About / Proven Team]() (corporate directory) - **Concurrent role reported by issuer; dates not stated: Marvel Gold** — Company Secretary. [About / Proven Team]() (Company secretary profile) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Kada resource and exploration growth under current team [joanna_kiernan_kada_delivery] 2025–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality Asara’s 2026 filings report a 923 koz resource at Massan/Kada and active drilling; a 2026 quarter describes substantial resource growth and a A$60m placement supporting further exploration. The team’s roles overlap company progress, but personal responsibility is not isolated. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. These company outcomes overlap tenure for current management, where tenure is known; individual contribution is not separately established. **Relevance:** Relevant to exploration-stage execution; no operating mine or production outcome yet. [Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026]() (June quarter resource/drilling and funding update); [Corporate Presentation]() (Kada project/team) ## Business failures and setbacks ### Exploration-stage funding dependence; no producing mine [joanna_kiernan_developer_risk] 2025–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality Asara’s 2025 report describes an exploration entity with no operating cash flow and dependence on external financing. Subsequent A$60m financing materially supports continued work. This is a stage/funding risk, not evidence of executive misconduct. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Company financial condition overlaps management but does not establish individual failure or poor capital allocation. **Relevance:** Relevant to stewardship and conversion of resources into a financeable project. [2025 Annual Report]() (material business risks, funding and cashflow); [Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026]() (June quarter financing and activities) ## Suitability for the current role ### Professional background and role relevance [joanna_kiernan_background] Career record to cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality Asara’s current profile reports 18+ years administering listed companies, chiefly in resources, across ASX, AIM and SGX issuers, and concurrent company-secretary roles at Asara and Marvel Gold. The 2026 presentation confirms this governance remit. Public biographies reviewed do not disclose education, a full prior-company chronology, or the Asara appointment date; no claim is made about governance outcomes at former issuers without tenure-specific evidence. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Sources provide selected background details, mostly issuer-reported; independent corroboration is incomplete. **Relevance:** Experience and qualifications are relevant to the current functional remit, with evidence limitations. [About / Proven Team]() (Joanna Kiernan biography); [Corporate Presentation]() (board and corporate governance, p. 5) ## Evidence gaps - Several management roles lack appointment dates and full biographies in dated filings. - Open-source review is not an exhaustive background, credentials, sanctions, litigation or regulator-record check. - Guinea safety/environmental and community evidence is mainly issuer-reported in sources reviewed.