# Ronald Heeks Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer ## Career chronology - **Chief Executive Officer role from 2021-12-01; current as of 2026-10-31: Larvotto Resources Limited** — Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer. [Half Yearly Report and Accounts]() (Directors’ report / current executive roster) - **Earlier career; exact dates not fully disclosed: Previous employers and professional roles as summarized in issuer disclosure** — Managing Director since December 2021; 35+ years mining; roles at Geopacific Resources, Coolgardie Gold and Smarttrans; co-founded Exploration and Mining Consultants. [Board and Management]() (pp. 11–12) - **Immediately prior to Larvotto; exact dates not specified in profile: Geopacific Resources Ltd.** — Managing Director. [Ronald Heeks director profile]() (Profile biography) - **Earlier career; dates not specified: Straits Asia / Straits Resources** — General Manager – Technical, Indonesian gold and coal operations. [Ronald Heeks director profile]() (Profile biography) - **Earlier career; dates not specified: Adamus Resources** — Chief Technical Officer, Southern Ashanti Gold Operation. [Ronald Heeks director profile]() (Profile biography) - **Earlier career; dates not specified: Exploration and Mining Consultants** — Co-founder. [Ronald Heeks director profile]() (Profile biography) ## Education and qualifications ### Education and professional credentials [lrv_ron_heeks_education] Not dated · issuer reported · low materiality B.App.Sc; MAusIMM. Credentials are reported in the cited issuer or secondary biography; the issuing institutions were not independently queried in this pass. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The cited biography names the qualification; independent verification of award records was not available. **Relevance:** Relevant professional preparation for the current position. [Board and Management]() (pp. 11–12) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Company-level project and delivery record [lrv_ron_heeks_company_record] 2026 through 2026-10-30 · issuer reported · medium materiality Larvotto reported first production at Hillgrove in August 2026 after mine restart and plant refurbishment. Its 30 October Q3 report records the first 68-tonne antimony concentrate shipment to Wogen after quarter-end and says mine-gate delivery satisfied a condition for an initial payment under the offtake prepayment facility. These are company-level outcomes during the executives’ tenures; no individual causal contribution is inferred. The 2025 AEMR’s historical consent matters are tracked separately. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The individual held the stated role during some or all of the reported period; available evidence does not isolate personal contribution. **Relevance:** Provides the company outcome against which the executive’s delivery record should be assessed. [Half Yearly Report and Accounts]() (FY2026 operating update and first production); [Quarterly Activities/Appendix 5B Cash Flow Report]() (pp. 1 and 4; post-quarter shipment and mine-gate delivery); [Annual Environmental Management Report 2025]() (pp. 5–9; historical consent compliance) ## Environmental record ### Legacy Hillgrove consent audit recorded outstanding non-compliances [lrv_ron_heeks_environment_context] Legacy consent conditions; AEMR reporting year 28 January 2025–27 January 2026; update dated 20 July 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality The 2024–25 AEMR previously recorded five Development Consent non-compliances still outstanding at the start of the 2025 reporting year. In the July 2026 updated AEMR, four remained at year end: three were being held open pending Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure approval of environmental control standards (noise and air/dust), and one remained open; the report states no other breaches were found. The AEMR also says quarterly noise results were compliant, while the legacy conditions remained formally open. A separate NSW Resources Regulator mining-lease audit recorded a warning letter over the rehabilitation plan format, rectified 12 December 2024, and a late 2024 forward-program submission; the regulator took no further action on lateness. The AEMR’s open items arise from historical consent conditions; they are company/site compliance issues, not findings of personal misconduct. CEO Heeks and COO Neame are relevant current operational oversight, but the records do not attribute the legacy breaches to either individual. **Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. Company/site compliance context; no personal causal link to Heeks or Neame established. **Relevance:** Relevant to environmental controls, site rehabilitation and production ramp-up. [Annual Environmental Management Report 2025]() (pp. 5–9, section 1 and Table 2; pp. 81–84, section 10.3: count/status and compliance updates); [Hillgrove Mines – Mining Act audit report]() (pp. 16–20, sections 3.2.7–3.2.14: format warning rectified, late filing and no further regulator action) ## Suitability for the current role ### Professional fit for Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer [lrv_ron_heeks_role_fit] Current role as of cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality Role fit is an analytical inference from the documented position and the listed experience. The current role aligns with the function stated in the title; demonstrated personal outcomes are not inferred from employer results. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Analyst assessment based on the cited role and career record; it does not establish performance causation. **Relevance:** Assesses documented capability against the current role and company stage. [Half Yearly Report and Accounts]() (Current executive roster); [Board and Management]() (pp. 11–12) ## Evidence gaps - The 2025 AEMR still records four historical consent items as open at its reporting cutoff; the 2026 Q3 report describes Mod 5 as under assessment but does not establish closure of those historical items by 2026-11-02.