# Matt Crowe Exploration Manager ## Career chronology - **Current role at cutoff; start date not established in the reviewed records: Gorilla Gold Mines** — Exploration Manager. [Annual Report 2025 and leadership presentation]() (Issuer management page, Matt Crowe entry) - **Prior role; exact dates not stated: BHP** — Principal Geologist. [Directors & Management]() (Issuer Directors & Management page, Matt Crowe biography) - **Prior role; exact dates not stated: Dreadnought Resources** — Chief Operating Officer / Exploration Manager. [Directors & Management]() (Issuer Directors & Management page, Matt Crowe biography) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Gorilla reported resource and exploration growth in 2025 [matt-crowe_gg8_growth_2025] 2025; reported November 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality The November 2025 issuer presentation reported approximately 650 koz of resources added across Western Australian projects in 2025, three high-grade discoveries at Comet Vale, a maiden Vivien resource and a fourfold Mulwarrie resource increase. Its later February 2026 presentation reported a 1.5 Moz Western Australian resource base, while planned drilling remained prospective. These are company-reported exploration milestones, not production, profitability or individual executive performance. **Attribution:** Responsibility unresolved. Tenure overlap and each person’s individual contribution are not established by the presentation; it describes company outcomes only. **Relevance:** Provides current execution context for the team. [Investor Presentation]() (pp.6–7; exploration and resource milestones); [Directors & Management]() (career profile / current role) ## Suitability for the current role ### Relevance of current Exploration Manager role [matt_crowe_role_fit] Current at 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · medium materiality The issuer identifies Matt Crowe as Exploration Manager. This role is relevant to the company's current mining stage and needs; this is an analyst role-fit inference based on the disclosed title and company profile, not evidence of past personal performance. The reviewed sources do not establish a complete prior-employer chronology, independently verified credentials or full concurrent-interest list. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit judgment, not an outcome or misconduct finding. **Relevance:** Assesses alignment of disclosed responsibilities with current company needs. [Annual Report 2025 and leadership presentation]() (Issuer management page, Matt Crowe entry) ### Exploration leadership and discovery record [matt-crowe_career_deep] Prior roles; 2023 award · analyst inference · medium materiality Gorilla describes Crowe as an exploration geologist with 20 years’ experience across major and junior WA resource companies, including Principal Geologist at BHP and COO/Exploration Manager at Dreadnought Resources. It says he led greenfields and brownfields teams involved in copper, gold, nickel, iron ore, rare earth and niobium discoveries, and was a co-recipient of AMEC’s 2023 Prospector Award for the Yin rare earth discovery. Employer attribution and award are issuer-reported; exact tenure dates and his individual contribution to each discovery remain unspecified. **Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. Award and discovery claims are team-level; source does not establish sole individual causation. **Relevance:** Exploration leadership and multi-commodity discovery experience fit the exploration manager role. [Directors & Management]() (Issuer Directors & Management page, Matt Crowe biography) ## Evidence gaps - Issuer biographies supply abbreviated role histories, not full dated chronologies; prior-employer roles and individual accountability for employer outcomes are incompletely documented. - Education and professional credentials are issuer-reported and were not independently checked where no primary credential record was found. - Open-web adverse searches were focused and identity-aware but did not comprehensively review regulator, court, safety or environment records at every prior employer; no clearance conclusion is implied.