# Jonathan Gough

General Manager Geology

## Career chronology

- **Joined May 2024; current in company directory accessed 9 October 2026: Brightstar Resources Limited** — General Manager – Geology. [Brightstar Diggers and Dealers Presentation, 5 August 2025](<https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20250805/pdf/06mk2gkcb6k65g.pdf>) (Appendix 1, p.27; joined May 2024); [Corporate Directory](<https://brightstarresources.com.au/who-we-are/corporate-directory/>) (Other Key Officers &amp; Management)

- **Before Brightstar; exact dates not stated: Musgrave Minerals Limited** — Exploration Manager. [Brightstar Diggers and Dealers Presentation, 5 August 2025](<https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20250805/pdf/06mk2gkcb6k65g.pdf>) (Appendix 1, p.27)

## Suitability for the current role

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

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

Brightstar reports 15+ years in Western Australian gold geology, with production, resource definition and exploration experience, and prior Exploration Manager work at Musgrave Minerals. This is relevant to geology leadership; specific discovery/resource outcomes and credentials were not established.

**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 unverified.

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

- 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.
