# Sam Johnstone General Manager, Export Marketing & Logistics ## Career chronology - **Senior leadership disclosure in 2020 and 2025 annual reports; current official profile confirms export marketing/logistics remit; start date not published: Bathurst Resources Limited** — General Manager, Marketing and Logistics; current title General Manager, Export Marketing & Logistics. [Our People]() (Our People, lines 108–113); [Annual Report 2025]() (Senior leadership, p. 22, lines 386–387) - **Earlier or concurrent sector experience; prior employers and dates not stated: New Zealand coal sector** — Domestic/international coal marketing and customer-contract management. [Our People]() (Our People, lines 108–113) ## Education and qualifications ### Postgraduate Master of Science in Geography [sam_johnstone_education] Current issuer biography reviewed 10 Oct 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality Bathurst reports that Johnstone holds a postgraduate Master of Science majoring in Geography. Institution and award date are not specified in the reviewed biography. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The education and professional-status information is reported by the issuer; independent credential verification was not performed. **Relevance:** Credentials and professional training provide evidence of subject-matter preparation for the executive’s current function. [Our People]() (Our People, lines 108–113) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### FY26 coal sales recovered in export segment [sam_fy26_sales] FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality Bathurst reported FY26 export sales of 1.145Mt, with export production of 1.036Mt, versus 0.956Mt production in FY25. Johnstone’s remit includes export and domestic marketing/logistics and customer contracts, but the company does not isolate his actions or share of the result. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Issuer disclosure establishes role alignment, not an individual contribution or sole cause. **Relevance:** Export volume, contracts and logistics are directly relevant to his current remit. [30 June 2026 Results Announcement]() (p. 2, export production, sales and financial results); [Our People]() (Our People, lines 108–113) ## Business failures and setbacks ### Rail-tunnel disruption reduced FY25 export sales capacity [sam_fy25_logistics] FY2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality Bathurst’s FY2025 CEO report says a Stockton rail-tunnel failure closed the export route for six months; road freight enabled continued exports but raised costs and constrained coal volumes. This overlapped Johnstone’s marketing/logistics remit, but the infrastructure failure was not attributed to him. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Role overlap only; the company attributed the disruption to tunnel failure and did not identify an individual decision or failure. **Relevance:** Export logistics and customer commitments fall within his current functional remit. [Annual Report 2025]() (CEO report, p. 9–10, lines 127–134); [Our People]() (Our People, lines 108–113) ## Suitability for the current role ### General Manager, Export Marketing & Logistics is supported by relevant functional experience [sam_johnstone_fit] Current role as at 10 October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality The current issuer profile says Johnstone manages domestic/export customer contracts and has marketing experience with New Zealand coal; the FY2025 report lists the Marketing and Logistics role. This is directly relevant to customer/offtake and export logistics. The current title adds “Export,” a wording refinement not a documented role change. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analyst assessment of role fit, based on issuer-reported career facts; it is not an independent performance evaluation. **Relevance:** Role fit is relevant to the executive team’s ability to run operating mines, manage growth or deliver company functions. [Our People]() (Our People, lines 108–113); [Annual Report 2025]() (Senior leadership, p. 22, lines 386–387) ## Evidence gaps - Prior employers, exact tenure, institution/award date for the MSc and individual marketing/logistics outcomes are not documented in the reviewed sources. - FY25 and FY26 sales/logistics metrics are company or segment outcomes; the sources do not isolate Johnstone’s contribution from infrastructure, price or broader operating factors. - No exhaustive court, regulator, criminal, sanctions, safety/environment or professional-disciplinary search was completed.