# Jonathan Hart Company Secretary ## Career chronology - **Appointed 17 September 2024: Brazilian Rare Earths Limited** — Company Secretary. [Brazilian Rare Earths Executive Team Changes]() (announcement, page 1); [Brazilian Rare Earths Limited Annual Report 2025]() (Directors' Report, PDF p.31 / printed p.29) - **Director by 2026; company established in 2012; appointment date not stated: Hartness Consulting Pty Ltd** — Director; corporate advisory and debt/equity services. [Company and leadership]() (leadership biography: outside role) - **More than 21 years' experience claimed; individual clients and dates not stated: ASX-listed companies** — Company secretarial and corporate advisory services. [Company and leadership]() (leadership biography); [Brazilian Rare Earths Limited Annual Report 2025]() (Directors' Report, PDF p.31 / printed p.29) ## Education and qualifications ### Issuer reports Bachelor of Laws and Commerce [jonathan-education] Qualifications reported by 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality BRE reports that Hart holds Bachelor of Laws and Commerce degrees. No external university or legal-admission confirmation was reviewed. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The issuer reports the degrees; independent degree/admission checks were not performed. **Relevance:** Relevant to company-secretarial and corporate-advisory responsibilities. [Company and leadership]() (leadership biography: education); [Brazilian Rare Earths Limited Annual Report 2025]() (Directors' Report, PDF p.31 / printed p.29) ## Suitability for the current role ### Corporate-advisory and company-secretarial experience is relevant to the company secretary role [jonathan-role-fit] Current role at 1 November 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality Analyst inference: the issuer describes more than 21 years in corporate advisory and company-secretarial services and a Bachelor of Laws and Commerce. Hartness Consulting is also disclosed as an outside role. No independently verified issuer list, individual governance outcome or conflict finding was located. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-scope assessment and does not imply a conflict or a conclusion about conduct. **Relevance:** Relevant to listed-company compliance and cross-border corporate processes. [Company and leadership]() (leadership biography: Jonathan Hart and Hartness Consulting); [Brazilian Rare Earths Limited Annual Report 2025]() (Directors' Report, PDF p.31 / printed p.29) ## Evidence gaps - The public record reviewed does not identify his former client companies, individual filing outcomes or exact start dates for prior roles. - Hartness Consulting is a disclosed concurrent role; no conflict or adverse finding was established in the reviewed sources. - Open-web searches are not an exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation, regulator, reference or credential check.