# Mark Rodda Executive Chairperson ## Career chronology - **Director since 2010; Executive Director effective 2021-09-16; Executive Chair effective 2024-10-03: Antipa Minerals Limited** — Executive Chairperson; previously Executive Director (Commercial and Legal) and non-executive director. [Appointment of Mark Rodda as Executive Chair]() (pp. 1-2; effective date and director since 2010); [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024]() (p. 5; 2024 director listing) - **Before its 2007 takeover by Norilsk Nickel: LionOre Mining International Ltd** — General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024]() (p. 5; career biography) - **Director appointed 13 October 2011; non-executive chair 15 July 2014 through June 2015 transaction; continued as director after the scheme: Coalspur Mines Ltd** — Chairperson; earlier non-executive director. [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024]() (p. 5; former Chairperson); [Appointment of Mark Rodda as Executive Chair]() (p. 1; former Chair); [Coalspur scheme booklet]() (p.30; chair tenure and identity); [Coalspur Announces Implementation of Scheme of Arrangement]() (scheme completion; director retained) ## Education and qualifications ### Reported legal and arts qualifications [mark_rodda_education] As reported through 2024 · issuer reported · medium materiality Issuer filings list BA and LLB. The institutions and award dates were not available in the primary disclosures read, and the credentials were not independently verified. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The qualifications are relevant to executive-chair legal, commercial and corporate oversight; the issuer is the source. **Relevance:** Role fit for legal/commercial governance; independent credential verification remains limited. [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024]() (p. 5; qualifications and biography); [Directors & Management]() (lines 30-34; BA, LLB) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### LionOre takeover during General Counsel tenure [mark_rodda_lionore_outcome] Through 2007 · issuer reported · medium materiality Antipa’s annual report states Rodda was LionOre General Counsel and Corporate Secretary before Norilsk Nickel’s takeover for more than US$6bn. This establishes role overlap with a substantial transaction, not Rodda’s personal causal contribution. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. General Counsel and Corporate Secretary role overlapped the takeover; no source reviewed assigns him individual deal leadership or outcome. **Relevance:** Relevant corporate transaction and legal governance experience; not evidence of Antipa operating delivery. [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024]() (p. 5; biography and takeover disclosure) ### Antipa resource and funding progress during executive tenure [mark_rodda_antipa_delivery] 2021-2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality While Rodda was an executive director and later chair, Antipa completed a A$17m Citadel interest sale, reported a A$51.2m cash balance at 31 December 2025, and grew its total resource to 2.9 Moz gold / 3.6 Moz AuEq by April 2026. These are company outcomes; no source establishes Rodda as the individual cause. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Executive director/chair oversight overlapped these events; transaction agreement pre-dated his chair appointment, and no individual attribution is established for the resource estimate. **Relevance:** Relevant to portfolio allocation and oversight; Minyari had not reached production by cutoff. [Citadel Joint Venture Interest Sale Completes]() (pp. 1-2; transaction and cash proceeds); [Interim Financial Report for the half-year ended 31 December 2025]() (pp. 21-22; A$51.17m cash at 31 Dec 2025); [Minyari Project Resource Grows to 3.6 Moz Gold Equivalent]() (pp. 1-2; resource estimate) ## Business failures and setbacks ### PFS timing extended while technical option studies were completed [mark_rodda_pfs_schedule] 2026-09-22 · issuer reported · low materiality The issuer stated that completing detailed processing and mine-schedule option studies extended the expected Minyari PFS release to November 2026. All principal PFS technical workstreams and option studies were reported complete; no operational project failure is established. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Chair oversight overlapped the schedule extension. The issuer tied extra time to comparative technical work; no evidence of personal fault. **Relevance:** A modest delivery-timing issue in a pre-production development project. [Minyari PFS Option Studies Update: Optimal Processing and Mine Scheduling Configuration Defined]() (pp. 1-2; timing extension and completed workstreams) ### Coalspur funding shortfall and sale during chair tenure [mark_rodda_coalspur_financing] 2014-2015 · documented · high materiality Coalspur rejected a US$175m final senior facility as insufficient to fund construction of Vista; repayment of its existing facility accelerated, with a later extension tied to a proposed transaction. Coalspur’s board recommended a sale and in June 2015 its shareholders received A$0.023 per share under the completed scheme. The board’s decision followed a strategic review in a challenging funding market; this is a company financing setback, not an established finding of personal misconduct. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Rodda was non-executive chair from July 2014 and signed the scheme booklet; the reviewed sources do not establish that he personally caused the funding shortfall. **Relevance:** Material historical project-financing and board-oversight experience for an executive chair at a study-stage developer. [Annual Financial Report year ended 31 December 2014]() (p.19, Financial Condition and Liquidity; funding package and repayment); [Coalspur scheme booklet]() (pp.4-5 and p.30; chair letter, strategic review, identity and tenure); [Coalspur Announces Implementation of Scheme of Arrangement]() (scheme implementation and A$0.023 consideration) ## Suitability for the current role ### Relevant chair experience with limited personal attribution [mark_rodda_role_fit] Current role at cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality Given Rodda’s stated legal/commercial career, General Counsel role at LionOre and Antipa executive-chair appointment, his background is relevant to company legal, transaction and governance oversight. This is an analyst inference; quantified personal delivery and independent credential verification are limited. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Inference based on the cited biography and role history; it does not assign individual responsibility for employer outcomes. **Relevance:** Role fit is stronger for corporate/legal oversight than for technical mine-building execution. [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2024]() (p. 5; biography and qualifications); [Appointment of Mark Rodda as Executive Chair]() (p. 1; chair appointment); [Directors & Management]() (lines 30-34; current role) ## Evidence gaps - Issuer disclosures do not establish Rodda’s personal responsibility for LionOre’s takeover, Coalspur project outcomes, Citadel sale negotiations or Antipa resource growth. - No independent BA/LLB registry verification, exhaustive litigation/court search, criminal or sanctions check, employment reference, or complete safety/environment enforcement check was performed; no clean/clearance conclusion is made. - Coalspur financing documents do not isolate Rodda’s personal contribution to financing decisions; the report does not assess total shareholder returns over a defined holding period. - Historical search entries were inherited without an independently verifiable audit trail. Refresh searches were targeted and limited; material former-employer and regulator records have not been exhaustively reviewed. - A same-named Tamworth councillor appeared in general search results; the records reviewed did not establish that this is the Antipa executive, so those results were not attributed to him.