# David Collins Chief Financial Officer ## Career chronology - **Current role at roster date; start date not independently established in reviewed sources: Northern Minerals Limited** — Chief Financial Officer. [Half-Year Financial Report to 31 December 2024]() (leadership biography/role) ## Business failures and setbacks ### Funding-dependent FID remained outstanding at cutoff [david_fid_slip] Target date 2026-09-30 · issuer reported · low materiality The 30 September 2026 update said FID would not occur by the target date because funding negotiations remained ongoing. Collins became CFO on 9 March 2026 and overlapped the later part of the funding process. NTU did not identify his individual contribution or responsibility for securing project finance. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The CFO joined during the target period; the source makes no personal attribution. **Relevance:** Relevant to the new CFO’s project-finance remit, but too early and too little evidence for a performance judgment. [2026 Annual Financial Statements, External Auditor Arrangements and FID Update]() (FID Timing, page 1, lines 26–31); [Management Update]() (Appointment and remit, lines 7–22) ## Suitability for the current role ### Current-role fit is provisional [david_collins_rolefit] 2026-09-26 · analyst inference · low materiality The dated disclosures reviewed establish David Collins’s current Chief Financial Officer position and the relevant experience described in the cited sources. They do not establish a complete independent career chronology or measured contribution to NTU outcomes. This limits role-fit assessment; the conclusion is provisional. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analyst inference from disclosed role scope and experience, not a finding about personal performance. **Relevance:** Relevant to assessing role coverage, but insufficient on its own to establish capability or outcomes. [Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2025]() (KMP list, pp. 20–21); [About Us and leadership biographies]() (Board or Executive biography, relevant named section) ## Evidence gaps - No sufficiently corroborated, dated biography was located in the reviewed records for David Collins; prior employers, education, qualifications, concurrent directorships and exact role commencement remain gaps. - Person-specific failure, fraud, legal, safety, environmental and governance coverage for David Collins is incomplete; open-web work documented here is not an exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation, reference or credential check. - No independent public credential verification or complete dated chronology for David Collins was established; private and unindexed employment records were not available. - No exhaustive person-level court, sanctions, criminal, regulator, safety or environmental record check was performed for David Collins; name-based searches can miss same-name and non-indexed records.