# Mark Strizek

Executive Director

## Career chronology

- **Appointed 1 Feb 2024; employment contract commenced 1 Jun 2024: Aurum Resources Limited** — Executive Director. [Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/aurum-resources-limited/annual-report/2026/64496830/>) (Remuneration Report contractual arrangements)

- **Director since July 2017; executive director from Jan 2020; stepped down in March 2023: Tietto Minerals Limited** — Executive Director / Non-Executive Director. [Tietto has zero gold hedging and has delivered its first gold pour at Abujar](<https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20230320/pdf/45mvprh4p99ymj.pdf>) (Appointment release and 20 Mar 2023 announcement re Abujar first gold and departure)

- **Issuer states he served 2011–2019 and left following sale of Watershed for A$15m: Vital Metals Limited** — Managing Director. [Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/aurum-resources-limited/annual-report/2026/64496830/>) (Directors’ Report / 2019 Tietto appointment release cites prior role and sale)

- **Nearly 30 years’ reported cross-commodity experience; complete chronology and degree details not established: Resources industry** — Geologist / exploration, feasibility and development executive. [Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/aurum-resources-limited/annual-report/2026/64496830/>) (Directors’ Report biography; limitations noted)

## Education and qualifications

### Qualifications and credential evidence [aue_strizek_education]

Qualifications disclosed by cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality

The issuer reports a long geology career, but the reviewed issuer disclosures do not identify a degree or qualification; a social profile indexed ECU education without credential details and was not treated as verification.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Issuer disclosures state the listed credentials; no independent verification with universities/professional bodies was completed.

**Relevance:** Qualifications support stated technical/governance fit, subject to credential verification gaps.

[Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/aurum-resources-limited/annual-report/2026/64496830/>) (Directors’ Report, p. 7; no degree listed; credential gap)

## Contributions and company outcomes

### Selected delivery record [aue_strizek_success]

Historic employer milestones and AUE progress to 30 Sep 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

At Tietto, Strizek held board/executive roles as Abujar expanded from exploration through construction to first gold, and a 2019 appointment release credited him with assisting technical development/marketing of the resource. At Aurum his board tenure overlaps the 2026 Boundiali resource/PFS milestones.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The dated issuer source ties him to Tietto project stewardship, but project-wide outcomes are not fully attributable to him; Aurum’s planned mine is not yet operating.

**Relevance:** Relevant to the executive’s current remit; employer and team results do not prove sole personal causation.

[Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/aurum-resources-limited/annual-report/2026/64496830/>) (Directors’ Report, biography; Tietto development-to-production background); [Tietto has zero gold hedging and has delivered its first gold pour at Abujar](<https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20230320/pdf/45mvprh4p99ymj.pdf>) (20 Mar 2023 release, first gold and Strizek’s departure after Abujar construction)

## Governance and interests

### Unresolved ASX continuous-disclosure query [aue_strizek_disclosure_query]

30 Sep–7 Oct 2026 · documented · high materiality

As an executive director, Strizek held a board role during AUE’s 30 September 2026 cleansing notice and subsequent ASX aware query. AUE acknowledged the related assay information was price-sensitive and defended timing; no ASX conclusion or personal decision attribution was found.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The query was addressed to the company; the director/company-secretary roles overlap with governance and disclosure oversight, but the correspondence does not connect any person to a deliberate or negligent breach.

**Relevance:** Material to listed-company disclosure controls and investor trust; remains unresolved at cutoff.

[Aurum Resources Limited (AUE): Cleansing Notice – Aware Query (company response and ASX letter)](<https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/clients/aurumres/headline.aspx?headlineid=61348046>) (Company response dated 7 Oct 2026 and embedded ASX query dated 2 Oct 2026, pp. 1–6)

## Suitability for the current role

### Role fit and evidence limits [aue_strizek_role_fit]

Current role and career to cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

Long geological, project-development and director experience is relevant to oversight of resource growth and a feasibility-stage gold mine; degree, role-by-role dates and individual capital-allocation outcomes remain thin.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an evidence-based role-fit judgment, not an outcome attribution.

**Relevance:** Experience fits the company's development/exploration stage and role as described; individual delivery in current role remains to be demonstrated.

[Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/aurum-resources-limited/annual-report/2026/64496830/>) (Directors’ Report, p. 7; role and career experience, external directorships, and appointment/contract dates)

## Evidence gaps

- No exhaustive criminal, sanctions, court, insolvency, regulator, safety or environmental database screening was completed; documented open-web searches do not establish clearance.

- The reviewed source set did not independently verify educational credentials or give a complete dated employer chronology.