# John Croall General Manager Mining ## Career chronology - **Appointment announced 4 November 2025; date of commencement not stated: Brightstar Resources Limited** — General Manager Mining. [Brightstar strengthens leadership to drive project development and mining operations]() (Leadership appointments, John Croall – General Manager Mining) - **Prior senior operational and leadership roles; exact dates not disclosed: Regis Resources; Evolution Mining; Ora Banda Mining; Saracen Mineral Holdings** — Mine Manager / Senior Site Executive. [Brightstar strengthens leadership to drive project development and mining operations]() (Leadership appointments, John Croall – General Manager Mining) ## Suitability for the current role ### Role-relevant experience is documented; delivery attribution remains limited [john_croall_fit] Career through 2026-10-09; role status assessed at evidence cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality Brightstar reports 30+ years across underground/open-pit operations and mine establishment, expansion, construction and commissioning, with prior senior roles at Regis, Evolution, Ora Banda and Saracen. His mining leadership background is relevant to operating a gold portfolio; personal delivery records were not separately measured. **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]() (Current corporate directory and management role listing); [Brightstar strengthens leadership to drive project development and mining operations]() (Leadership appointments biography) ## 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.