# Steve Promnitz Senior Strategic Adviser ## Career chronology - **Appointed July 2025; identified in 29 October 2026 issuer presentation.: Resolution Minerals** — Senior Strategic Adviser. [US roadshow presentation]() (PDF p.11); [Strategic advisors appointed]() (21 July 2025 appointment) - **14 November 2016 to 17 June 2022: Lake Resources** — Managing Director and CEO. [Lake Resources 2022 annual report]() (Audited remuneration report, managing director service agreement) - **Resigned 30 July 2014: Indochine Mining** — Chief executive officer. [Indochine funding and board change]() (ASX announcement 30 July 2014) ## Business failures and setbacks ### Indochine financing difficulty and later creditor case [promnitz_indochine] 2014–2015 · documented · medium materiality Indochine disclosed financing discussions and Promnitz’s CEO resignation on 30 July 2014. The company entered administration in March 2015 after a later funding withdrawal. As a creditor, Promnitz challenged a creditors’ resolution and deed; in August 2015 the Federal Court dismissed his proceeding and ordered costs. The administration occurred after his departure and the judgment does not establish personal misconduct. **Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. His CEO role had ended before the administration; his later role was as plaintiff and creditor, not a defendant found responsible. **Relevance:** Prior-employer financial and legal outcome relevant to a strategic adviser. [Indochine funding and board change]() (ASX announcement, p.1); [Promnitz v Indochine Mining \[2015\] FCA 857]() (Orders and reasons, paragraphs 1, 20 and final orders) ## Litigation and enforcement ### Disputed Lake receivable settled [promnitz_settlement] FY2022–FY2024 · issuer reported · high materiality Lake’s 2022 accounts disclosed A$1,077,773 in advances and expense payments linked to Promnitz and said some transactions were disputed. Its 2023 annual report described offsets, a write-down and a final A$200,000 settlement amount; its 2024 annual report said the dispute was resolved to all parties’ satisfaction and the final amount was received. These are issuer disclosures, not a finding of wrongdoing. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The issuer names Promnitz and states amounts were disputed and subsequently settled; no personal misconduct finding was established. **Relevance:** Material related-party and governance context, with the later outcome retained. [Lake Resources 2022 annual report]() (Note 6(b), printed p.68); [Lake Resources 2023 annual report]() (Trade and other receivables note); [Lake Resources 2024 annual report]() (Note 8(a), printed p.80) ## Governance and interests ### Lake reported unapproved closed-period trades [promnitz_trading] April–July 2022 · issuer reported · high materiality Lake reported that Promnitz traded shares on 20–22 April 2022 during a closed period without the required advance written clearance and had not notified the company secretary. Lake described this as inadvertent non-compliance, said permission was sought after the trades, and described steps to update governance processes. This is Lake’s account; no independent regulatory finding or personal response about the incident was located. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. Lake identifies the individual and the trading-policy issue, while characterising the failure as inadvertent. No insider-trading or other statutory breach is inferred. **Relevance:** Relevant to governance and disclosure controls. [Lake response to short-seller report]() (Lake response, On the Disclosure of share trades, reproduced text) ## Suitability for the current role ### Relevant experience and evidence limits [steve-promnitz_fit] As of the dated 2025–2026 sources · analyst inference · low materiality Resolution named Promnitz a strategic adviser in July 2025 and continued to list him on its 29 October 2026 management slide. He led Lake Resources during its exploration and pre-feasibility stages. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Role-fit inference is based on issuer-reported roles; individual outcomes and qualifications are not independently verified. **Relevance:** Relevant to Horse Heaven technical and strategic execution. [Strategic advisors appointed]() (Dated issuer appointment or management slide); [US roadshow presentation]() (29 October 2026 presentation p.11) ## Evidence gaps - Prior career dates, independent education and professional credentials have not been comprehensively verified. - Dedicated person- and former-employer searches across safety, legal, fraud, environment and governance are incomplete. - The underlying individual regulator records, complete career outcomes and independent credentials remain incomplete. - The underlying closed-period trading matter has not been independently checked against a final regulatory disposition, if any. - Historical 9 October search-log entries were not independently reconstructed; current topic coverage is limited to the actual grouped search and sources recorded here.