# Jade Cook

Company Secretary

## Career chronology

- **Before Source; exact dates not disclosed: Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand** — Governance/company-secretarial role in Sydney. [Jade Cook profile](<https://source.com.au/team/jade-cook/>) (Jade Cook profile, lines 78–88)

- **Before joining Source; exact dates not disclosed: Ravenscroft Holdings Limited / Ipes** — Governance and company-secretarial roles in Guernsey. [Jade Cook profile](<https://source.com.au/team/jade-cook/>) (Jade Cook profile, line 78)

- **Before joining Source; exact dates and title not disclosed: State Street** — Prior corporate services role. [Jade Cook profile](<https://source.com.au/team/jade-cook/>) (Jade Cook profile, line 78)

- **At the time of employer profile, before/concurrent with Barton company-secretarial work; exact dates not disclosed: Source Legal Australia** — Senior Company Secretary. [Jade Cook profile](<https://source.com.au/team/jade-cook/>) (Jade Cook profile, lines 53–78)

- **Appointed effective 29 November 2024; current at roster date 2026-09-26: Barton Gold Holdings Limited** — Company Secretary. [Appointment of Company Secretary](<https://api.investi.com.au/api/announcements/bgd/342ddc9b-3f0.pdf>) (ASX appointment effective 29 November 2024)

## Governance and interests

### Company-secretarial transition and governance responsibility [bgd_jade_gov]

2024-11-29 to cutoff · documented · low materiality

Barton announced Cook’s company secretary appointment effective 29 November 2024 following Shannon Coates’ retirement on the same date. The company designated Cook the person responsible for ASX communications under Listing Rule 12.6. This establishes governance duties but no governance breach or individual failure was identified in the reviewed sources.

**Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The appointment release expressly identifies Cook’s role and ASX communications responsibility; it reports no adverse event.

**Relevance:** Directly relevant to continuous disclosure and board/company secretarial controls.

[Appointment of Company Secretary](<https://api.investi.com.au/api/announcements/bgd/342ddc9b-3f0.pdf>) (Issuer appointment release dated 29 November 2024)

## Suitability for the current role

### Role fit remains only partly evidenced [bgd_jade_cook_rolefit]

Current appointment through 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · low materiality

Source Legal Australia identifies BA (Business Management), Bath Spa University; MSc (Corporate Governance), Bournemouth University; earlier roles at State Street, Ipes and Ravenscroft Holdings in Guernsey and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand in Sydney. Barton appointed Cook Company Secretary effective 29 November 2024. Employer-profile claims were reviewed, but award records and professional memberships were not independently checked. Role-fit inference: relevant experience is evidenced, though exact prior-role dates and outcomes remain limited.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analytical role-fit assessment; it does not allege responsibility for outcomes.

**Relevance:** Relevant to current Company Secretary duties at Barton Gold Holdings Limited.

[Jade Cook profile](<https://source.com.au/team/jade-cook/>) (Jade Cook profile, lines 72–95); [Appointment of Company Secretary](<https://api.investi.com.au/api/announcements/bgd/342ddc9b-3f0.pdf>) (Appointment effective 29 November 2024; Company Secretary / ASX contact role)

## Evidence gaps

- Exact dates and independent corroboration for several prior-employer roles are not disclosed in the cited public biographies.

- The documented name/employer searches and reviewed filings are not exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation, safety, environmental or regulatory record checks; no clearance is implied.

- Company exploration, finance and project milestones are not personally attributable absent the role limits stated in each finding.

- Jade Cook’s employer profile names Bath Spa University and Bournemouth University, but institutional award confirmation and professional membership-register verification were not performed.

- The FY2026 annual report was announced as released on 29 September 2026, but the full report could not be retrieved and read by the cutoff; no claim is based on its contents.

- No individual adverse finding was established in the documented searches; the open-web review is not an exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation, safety, environmental or regulatory check.