# Katherine Hughes

Chief Human Resources Officer

## Career chronology

- **Current role listed on corporate directory accessed 9 October 2026; appointment date not stated: Brightstar Resources Limited** — Chief Human Resources Officer. [Corporate Directory](<https://brightstarresources.com.au/who-we-are/corporate-directory/>) (Other Key Officers &amp; Management)

- **Brightstar introduction states more than two decades’ sector experience; prior employers and exact chronology not provided by the material reviewed: Mining, manufacturing and transport sectors** — Senior human-resources leadership. [Corporate Directory](<https://brightstarresources.com.au/who-we-are/corporate-directory/>) (Other Key Officers &amp; Management)

## Suitability for the current role

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

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

Brightstar lists Hughes as CHRO and states 20+ years across mining, manufacturing and transport with executive-level people-strategy experience. This is relevant to a growing workforce, but the available source is an issuer introduction and names no prior employers, qualifications, or independent outcomes.

**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.