# David Pass Technical Director, Chief Technical Officer ## Career chronology - **Dates not stated in the source: Battery Limits; Moly Mines; Barrick Gold** — Previously held professional positions as described by issuer. [Our Board]() (International Graphite issuer board profile for current role and biographies.) - **Current at evidence cutoff: International Graphite Limited** — Technical Director, Chief Technical Officer. [Our Board]() (International Graphite issuer board profile for current role and biographies.) - **At profile publication; start date not stated: BatteryLimits** — Chief Executive Officer. [David Pass profile]() (David Pass profile) - **GM from December 2012, acting CEO from October 2013 to April 2014: Moly Mines Limited** — General Manager Operations and then Acting CEO. [2013 annual report]() (executive officers table); [June 2014 quarterly activities report]() (p.2 corporate and board changes) ## Education and qualifications ### Metallurgy degree and professional membership reported [ig6_david_pass_education] As stated in 2022 prospectus · issuer reported · medium materiality International Graphite’s prospectus states Pass holds a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy from Murdoch University and is a member of AusIMM. Issuer disclosure, not independently credential-checked. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Credential claim is from issuer prospectus; no direct university or professional-body confirmation located in this batch. **Relevance:** Relevant to technical director oversight of graphite processing/development. [International Graphite Prospectus]() (p.80, David Pass biography) ## Personal achievements ### Relevant professional background and qualifications [ig6_david_pass_background] Previous career / current appointment; exact periods only where stated · issuer reported · medium materiality Metallurgist with 30 years’ mining experience; issuer describes operational processing, design, project management and mine operations experience; Murdoch BSc Metallurgy and AusIMM membership. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. This is an issuer-published career summary; it is not independent verification of every claimed contribution. **Relevance:** The disclosed roles and qualifications bear on the executive’s technical director, chief technical officer responsibilities. [Our Board]() (David Pass section) ### Relevant metallurgical and operating experience disclosed [ig6_david_pass_prior_experience] Prior career; dates unspecified · self reported · medium materiality Employer profile describes 20 years in WA gold, including 10 years at Barrick’s Granny Smith with processing/metallurgy leadership, and CEO/GM roles at Moly Mines on Spinifex Ridge and iron ore projects. This establishes role history, not project success attribution. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. Employer biography documents roles and scope but provides no quantified personal delivery outcome. **Relevance:** Directly relevant to process/technical responsibilities. [David Pass profile]() (David Pass profile) ## Business failures and setbacks ### Moly project deferred during senior tenure [ig6_pass_moly] 2012–2014 · issuer reported · medium materiality Moly Mines reported in its 2013 annual report that the Spinifex Ridge molybdenum/copper project was postponed because project economics did not support full financing and a final investment decision. Iron ore operations transferred to another operator under a mine-gate sale in July 2013. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Pass was GM operations from December 2012 and acting CEO from October 2013 until 11 April 2014. Commercial causes cannot be attributed to him individually. **Relevance:** A relevant prior project outcome complements the disclosed technical experience. [2013 annual report]() (executive officers table; operations and business strategies); [June 2014 quarterly activities report]() (p.2) ## Governance and interests ### Related-party technical services [ig6_pass_related] FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality The FY2026 annual report discloses that BatteryLimits, controlled by IG6 chair Phillip Hearse and led by Pass, earned A$587,014 in fees from IG6, including approximately A$157,005 for Pass’s time; the company describes rates as favourable compared with unrelated providers. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The transactions and overlapping roles are disclosed; no breach or improper pricing is established, and the comparison is management’s statement. **Relevance:** Related-party work and technical oversight are relevant to governance assessment. [2026 Annual Report and Financial Statements]() (pp.38,66 related-party transactions) ## Suitability for the current role ### Current role relevance is supported at title level [ig6_david_pass_role_fit] At evidence cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality Analyst inference: the disclosed current title indicates experience relevant to the assigned function. The record reviewed does not establish individual delivery outcomes or independently verify credentials beyond the cited issuer disclosure. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analytical role-fit judgment, not a claim of proven performance. **Relevance:** Current role scope is directly relevant to team composition; evidence of delivery remains limited. [Our Board]() (International Graphite issuer board profile for current role and biographies.) ## Evidence gaps - Independent verification of the complete career chronology, education and professional memberships is not established by the sources reviewed. - No comprehensive regulator, court, safety, environment or litigation-record review was completed; absence of a finding here is not a clearance. - Individual contribution to employer outcomes and concurrent board interests require additional source-level verification. - The precise allocation of responsibility for Moly project funding and outcomes is not independently established. - Historical 9 October search-log entries are inherited and their execution and exact scope could not be independently reconstructed in the 31 October audit. Broad keyword searches do not establish complete person-specific regulatory, court, safety or environmental coverage.