# Nicola Frazer Chief Financial Officer ## Career chronology - **1998–2007: Normandy Mining / Newmont Australia** — Manager, Business Development and Investor Relations. [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (CFO appointment release; prior Normandy/Newmont role and dates) - **2009–2020: Beach Energy** — Senior Commercial Advisor. [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (CFO appointment release; Beach Energy role and dates) - **Most recent disclosed role before Barton appointment; dates not stated: KPMG Australia** — Associate Director, Government Incentives and Grants. [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (CFO appointment release; most recent role) - **Appointed effective 24 June 2024; current at 2026-09-26: Barton Gold Holdings Limited** — Chief Financial Officer. [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (CFO appointment effective 24 June 2024) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Finance leadership during fund-raising and project advancement [bgd_nicola_success] FY2025–2026 · issuer reported · low materiality Barton’s 2025 annual report documents a $3m placement priced at a 25% premium to prior 20-day VWAP, additional project progress and a $1.839m FY2025 net loss; the FY2026 PFS announcement confirms ongoing development. The sources do not identify Frazer as the individual negotiator or attribute the capital raise personally. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Frazer is CFO; disclosed role creates oversight overlap with financing/reporting, but sources do not attribute specific transactions to her. **Relevance:** Relevant finance context; accounting results remained loss-making and project funding/execution risks persisted. [Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ Report, printed pp. 7–9; financial statements, printed p. 53); [Tunkillia Pre-Feasibility Study Begins]() (Issuer release dated 21 June 2026) ## Suitability for the current role ### Role fit remains only partly evidenced [bgd_nicola_frazer_rolefit] Current appointment through 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · low materiality Issuer states Bachelor of Economics (Accounting), University of Adelaide; GradDip Applied Finance & Investment, Securities Institute of Australia (now FINSIA); Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand fellow and Chartered Accountant. Independent award/register verification was not performed. Role-fit inference: the documented background is relevant to the current role, but the evidence does not establish a full attributable performance record. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analytical role-fit assessment; it does not allege responsibility for outcomes. **Relevance:** Relevant to current Chief Financial Officer duties at Barton Gold Holdings Limited. [Management and Technical Team]() (Management and Technical Team biography; education and professional credentials); [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (24 June 2024 CFO appointment; CA status and career history) ## Evidence gaps - Exact dates and independent corroboration for several prior-employer roles are not disclosed in the cited public biographies. - Degrees, professional memberships and licences are issuer-reported; direct awarding-institution and register verification was not completed. - 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. - 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.