# Dianmin Chen Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer ## Career chronology - **Current role at cutoff; start date not established in the reviewed records: Global Lithium Resources** — Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer. [Management page]() (Issuer management page, Dianmin Chen entry) - **Prior to Global Lithium; exact dates not stated in the reviewed biography: Barrick Gold** — Mine Manager. [Dianmin Chen biography]() (Issuer biography, career paragraph) - **Prior to Global Lithium; exact dates not stated in the reviewed biography: Sino Gold** — General Manager. [Dianmin Chen biography]() (Issuer biography, career paragraph) - **Prior to Global Lithium; exact dates not stated in the reviewed biography: CITIC Pacific Mining** — Chief Operating Officer. [Dianmin Chen biography]() (Issuer biography, career paragraph) - **Prior to Global Lithium; exact dates not stated in the reviewed biography: CaNickel** — Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer. [Dianmin Chen biography]() (Issuer biography, career paragraph) - **Prior to Global Lithium; exact dates not stated in the reviewed biography: Norton Goldfields** — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. [Dianmin Chen biography]() (Issuer biography, career paragraph) - **Current at cutoff: Warriedar Resources** — Non-Executive Director. [Dianmin Chen biography]() (Issuer biography, final sentence) ## Education and qualifications ### Mining engineering and geomechanics qualifications [dianmin_chen_education] Current disclosure at cutoff · issuer reported · medium materiality Global Lithium identifies Dr Chen as holding a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining and a PhD in Mining Geomechanics, and a WA First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency. The issuer biography does not name the awarding institutions or dates. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Qualifications are reported by the issuer; independent verification and award dates were not established. **Relevance:** Relevant technical credentials for leadership of a mining development company. [Dianmin Chen biography]() (Qualifications paragraph) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Global Lithium Resources reported project and corporate progress [dianmin_chen_company_delivery] FY25–FY26 as stated in cited issuer disclosure · issuer reported · medium materiality The company delivered a Definitive Feasibility Study for the Manna Lithium Project in December 2025. The study is a completed analytical milestone, not a built mine or realised investment return. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The role may overlap the period, but the issuer report does not assign sole or causal credit to this executive. **Relevance:** Provides evidence of the operating or project context the leadership team must continue to execute. [Annual Report to shareholders]() (Annual report, Chair/CEO letter and Review of Operations) ### Norton remained profitable but reported sharply lower profit in 2014 [dianmin_chen_norton_2014_financial_context] FY2014 · documented · medium materiality ABC reported Norton Gold Fields made A$13.1 million profit in 2014, almost A$10 million below the prior year, while increasing mineral resources above 10 million ounces. Chen publicly described profit as marginal despite heavy investment and said the company was working to raise production and reduce costs. This is an employer outcome during his managing-director tenure, not a standalone personal-performance conclusion. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Chen was directly quoted about cost and production priorities, but the financial result reflects the whole company and market context. **Relevance:** Adds quantified prior-employer delivery and financial context relevant to CEO track record. [Norton Gold Fields to keep fighting to stay alive]() (ABC News, paragraphs 117–129) ## Industrial safety ### Non-injury crusher incident during Norton tenure [dianmin_chen_norton_safety_incident] June 2014 · documented · low materiality In June 2014, while Chen was Norton Goldfields managing director, a loader tipped into the Paddington primary-crusher ROM bin. Contemporaneous reporting says no one was injured; Norton reported the incident to the Department of Mines and Petroleum, and its quarterly report recorded no production halt and an LTIFR of 2.6 at quarter end, equal to the stated WA gold-industry benchmark. The report does not establish that Chen caused the incident or the regulator’s final investigation outcome. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Chen was managing director and was quoted as overseeing an internal check; operational causation or personal responsibility is not established. The company reported the event and no injury. **Relevance:** Provides a bounded safety oversight example from a prior operator role; no adverse personal finding. [Investigation under way after mine mishap]() (Incident description, Department response and Norton managing-director comment); [June 2014 quarterly activities report]() (Safety & Environment; incident and June-quarter LTIFR) ## Governance and interests ### Takeovers Panel declined to hear board association allegation [dianmin_chen_takeovers_panel] January–February 2025 · disputed · high materiality Global Lithium alleged an undisclosed association involving this person in the context of the 2025 board election. The Takeovers Panel declined to conduct proceedings because the application was out of time; on review, the Panel also declined to extend time and said the application did not present a compelling case beyond collective action, describing indicators as equivocal. The matter was not adjudicated as personal misconduct, and the reasons do not support treating the allegation as proven. **Attribution:** Responsibility unresolved. The individual is identified in the regulator’s account of an allegation made by GL1. The Panels did not make a finding of misconduct; the matter ended on timeliness grounds and the review reasons address the merits only preliminarily. **Relevance:** Material governance context for a director or senior executive at a company that experienced a board dispute. [Global Lithium Resources Limited \[2025\] ATP 2]() (paragraphs 1, 3–9 and conclusion); [Global Lithium Resources Limited 02R \[2025\] ATP 4]() (paragraphs 1, 3–11 and 71–84) ## Suitability for the current role ### Relevance of current Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer role [dianmin_chen_role_fit] Current at 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · medium materiality The issuer identifies Dianmin Chen as Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer. 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. [Management page]() (Issuer management page, Dianmin Chen entry) ## Evidence gaps - A complete dated career chronology, verified education/professional membership and full concurrent-interest record were not established. - Person-specific enforcement, litigation, safety, environmental, legal and governance searches across material former employers remain uncompleted; no clearance conclusion is implied.