# Benjamin Smith

Company Secretary

## Career chronology

- **Current at 30 September 2026; initial appointment date not stated: Brightstar Resources Limited** — Company Secretary. [Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/brightstar-resources-limited/annual-report/2026/64447281/>) (Corporate directory and company secretary biography)

- **Three years; dates not stated: BHP Nickel West** — Finance/accounting professional. [Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/brightstar-resources-limited/annual-report/2026/64447281/>) (Company secretary biography)

- **Five years; dates not stated: ASX-listed company audit practice** — Auditor. [Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/brightstar-resources-limited/annual-report/2026/64447281/>) (Company secretary biography)

- **More recently as described in the FY2026 annual report; exact dates not stated: Rubix Resources Limited; Estrella Resources Limited** — Company Secretary. [Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report](<https://financialfilings.com/filings/brightstar-resources-limited/annual-report/2026/64447281/>) (Company secretary biography)

## Suitability for the current role

### Role-relevant experience is documented; delivery attribution remains limited [benjamin_smith_fit]

Career through 2026-10-09; role status assessed at evidence cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

The FY2026 annual report describes him as a Chartered Secretary and Chartered Accountant, with three years at BHP Nickel West, five years auditing ASX-listed companies, and company-secretarial roles at Rubix and Estrella. This background directly matches listed-company finance and secretarial responsibilities; certificates and dates were not independently checked.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Career and qualifications are biographical facts reported by the issuer or employer; individual contribution to aggregate company outcomes is only attributed where a source explicitly links it.

**Relevance:** The experience is relevant to the current or most recent stated role, subject to the evidence and verification limits described.

[Corporate Directory](<https://brightstarresources.com.au/who-we-are/corporate-directory/>) (Current corporate directory and management role listing)

## Evidence gaps

- Career chronology, prior positions, dates, qualifications and memberships are substantially incomplete unless specifically noted in cited evidence.

- No company-outcome attribution or benchmark-adjusted shareholder-return analysis was performed for this executive.

- Person-specific fraud, litigation, sanctions, safety, environmental and governance searches were not performed; no clearance or negative finding is implied.

- Searches of criminal, court, regulator and professional registers were not exhaustive or, for this pass, generally performed.