# John Sofield Project Director ## Career chronology - **Appointed 9 June 2026–cutoff: Ausgold Limited** — Project Director, Katanning Gold Project. [Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Project Director]() (lines 4-13) - **Most recent prior; end date not disclosed: BP** — Commissioning Manager, Kwinana Oil Terminal. [Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Project Director]() (lines 8-13) - **Earlier; individual titles and dates not all disclosed in appointment release: South32; SO4 Potash; Covalent Lithium; Fortescue; BCI Minerals** — Senior project delivery roles. [Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Project Director]() (lines 8-13) ## Education and qualifications ### Education and professional qualification evidence [auc_sofield_education] Qualifications as reported through cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality No degree, engineering discipline or professional membership is specified in the reviewed appointment release. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The listed qualifications are reported in issuer material or the identified secondary profile; no independent credential verification was completed. **Relevance:** Qualifications are relevant to evaluating role fit and executive experience. [Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Project Director]() (lines 4-13) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Documented current-company outcome and attribution limit [auc_sofield_outcome] FY2025–2026 / appointment period · issuer reported · medium materiality Ausgold appointed Sofield to direct the Katanning project in June 2026. No subsequent construction completion or first production is documented at cutoff; planned work is not counted as delivered success. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Public materials document the company milestones and the person’s role or appointment, but do not establish sole individual causation. **Relevance:** Relevant to the record of delivery at a development-stage gold project. [Ausgold Annual Report 2026]() (pp. 35, 38, 41; KGP development, executive additions and missed FID KPI); [Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations]() (lines 10-35) ## Business failures and setbacks ### FY2026 final-investment-decision target not met [auc_sofield_fid] FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality Ausgold's 2026 annual report says the company KPI was to achieve a financial investment decision for Katanning; the KPI was not achieved and the board awarded no FY26 STI. The record attributes no individual cause. The company later announced a recommended acquisition by OceanaGold, subject to scheme process. **Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. This is an issuer-reported company outcome. Dorward and the FY26 KMP overlapped the period; the report does not establish personal causation. Other people either joined near/after the period or their responsibility is not shown. **Relevance:** Relevant to delivery against stated company development milestones. [Ausgold Annual Report 2026]() (pp. 41-42 and 38; KPI not achieved, no STI, transaction announcement context) ## Suitability for the current role ### Relevant experience for current role [auc_sofield_fit] Career through 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality The issuer reports more than 25 years in mining, resources and oil and gas, complex greenfield and brownfield project delivery and a recent commissioning role at BP’s Kwinana Oil Terminal. That experience aligns with project execution duties. Exact chronology, credentials and outcomes per employer remain gaps. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit inference from cited issuer/secondary biography evidence; it does not assign causation for prior employer results. **Relevance:** Experience in finance, governance, operations or project delivery maps to the role described in the selected roster. [Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Project Director]() (lines 4-13) ## Evidence gaps - Public dated sources reviewed do not provide a complete independently verifiable chronology of prior roles and delivered outcomes; dates are left approximate or unknown where not disclosed. - The reviewed sources do not identify a degree or independently verifiable professional credential for this individual.