# Martin Phillips Group Chief Executive Officer ## Career chronology - **Earlier career; exact dates not established: Prior employers as stated in official or reviewed professional profile** — Early engineering/commercial roles at MIM and Iluka; built and managed offshore smelting operations and growth strategies.. [Board and Management]() (Martin Phillips profile; career/role section) - **Current role; roster as of 2026-09-26: Talga Group Ltd** — Group Chief Executive Officer. [Board and Management]() (Martin Phillips profile; title and role); [Talga Group Ltd Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ report / Corporate Directory; executive name and title) - **Earlier career; exact dates not established in reviewed profile: MIM (now Glencore) and Iluka Resources** — Engineering and commercial roles; later constructed/managed operations and growth strategies for offshore smelting businesses. [Board and Management]() (Martin Phillips profile; career and experience) ## Education and qualifications ### Education and professional credentials [exec_martin_phillips_education] Credential history; dates not disclosed in reviewed source · issuer reported · low materiality Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Honours); Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment; AICD and AusIMM member. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The profile identifies the stated qualifications; graduation dates and independent register verification were not located. **Relevance:** Relevant to the technical, finance or governance responsibilities described in the current role. [Board and Management]() (Martin Phillips profile; career/role section) ## Personal achievements ### Relevant professional experience [exec_martin_phillips_career_record] Earlier career; exact dates not established in reviewed profile · issuer reported · medium materiality Early engineering/commercial roles at MIM and Iluka; built and managed offshore smelting operations and growth strategies. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The cited profile describes the person’s roles and involvement; outcome attribution is limited to what it explicitly states. **Relevance:** Provides role-relevant experience; profile claims are issuer-reported and not a substitute for independent delivery evidence. [Board and Management]() (Martin Phillips profile; career/role section) ### Engineering and finance education with operations experience [martin_phillips_qualifications_and_delivery_experience] Earlier career through current Talga tenure · issuer reported · medium materiality Talga’s current leadership profile reports more than 25 years in metals/mining, earlier engineering and commercial roles at MIM and Iluka, construction and management of offshore smelting operations, a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Honours), a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment, and memberships of AICD and AusIMM. The profile does not give exact dates or identify the smelting assets built. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. Issuer profile describes career and credentials; contribution to past operations is stated broadly, without named project-level metrics. **Relevance:** Engineering, project management and finance background are directly relevant to Talga’s integrated mine and processing development; evidence is profile-level. [Board and Management]() (Martin Phillips profile; career, degrees and memberships) ## Litigation and enforcement ### Environmental permit appeal rejected; separate land designation appeal remained [exec_martin-phillips_nunassvaara_permit_timeline] April 2023–December 2025 · documented · medium materiality The Swedish Land and Environment Court granted Talga AB environmental and Natura 2000 permits for Nunasvaara South in April 2023 after assessing impacts on reindeer husbandry, water, species and Natura 2000; it set 24 final and one provisional condition. The Court of Appeal refused leave for the 2023 appeals in August 2023, so that permit remained in force. A separate land designation dispute was still active in December 2025, when Sveriges Radio reported that Talga and Talma Sami community both appealed the land designation decision. These are permitting and land-use proceedings, not findings of misconduct. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The evidence concerns Talga AB project approvals and stakeholder appeals during management tenure; it does not connect either executive to any legal breach. **Relevance:** Shows permitting complexity and continuing Indigenous stakeholder/legal interface for the company’s development; useful to assess project delivery and social-license oversight. [Talga AB får tillstånd till grafitgruva vid Nunasvaara i Kiruna kommun (M 1573-20)]() (Umeå District Court judgment summary; scope, impacts, conditions and third-party submissions); [Vittangi Mine Permit Appeals Rejected]() (Appeal decision update; leave refused, underlying permit stands); [Ny domstolsprövning om planerad grafitgruva]() (Separate land-designation appeal status, 30 December 2025) ## Suitability for the current role ### Role fit and evidence limits [exec_martin_phillips_role_fit] Assessment at cutoff 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · medium materiality Engineering, project execution and carbon-materials R&D experience map to Talga’s Swedish graphite-to-anode development; delivered commercial-scale project outcomes remain unproven at the cutoff. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analytical inference from the cited career profile and the company’s stated stage; it does not claim personal causation of company outcomes. **Relevance:** Connects prior experience to the role’s execution and oversight needs. [Board and Management]() (Martin Phillips profile; career/role section) ## Evidence gaps - Exact dates for prior roles and independent confirmation of profile claims were unavailable in the reviewed materials. - The environmental permit appeal was refused in 2023, but the separate land designation challenge reported in December 2025 had no later disposition located by the 9 October 2026 cutoff. These records identify project permitting/stakeholder issues only, not executive misconduct.