# Brendon Nicol Chief Technical Officer ## Career chronology - **December 2019–present; Tivan title changes in 2025 and 2026: METS Engineering Group; Tivan Limited** — Former METS Engineering consultant; joined Tivan in December 2019; promoted from Process Manager to Technical Director in May 2025 and Chief Technical Officer in July 2026. Worked on process development/metallurgical testwork for vanadium, titanium, alumina, nickel, cobalt, copper, iron ore and gold projects; holds BE Chemical and Process Engineering and BSc Chemistry from UWA.. [Tivan announces formation of Leadership Team]() (Appendix A, Brendon Nicol biography, p. 2; title promotion, lines 14–20) ## Education and qualifications ### Process engineering and chemistry qualifications [brendon_nicol_engineering_education] Career history and qualifications as reported 14 May 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality Tivan’s May 2025 leadership announcement states that Nicol joined in December 2019 after consulting at METS Engineering, with prior process development and metallurgical testwork experience, and holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical and Process Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Western Australia. The source does not provide award dates or independent verification. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. Issuer biography supports stated qualifications and work history; no independent credential check was located. **Relevance:** Directly relevant to technical leadership and processing responsibilities. [Tivan announces formation of Leadership Team]() (Appendix A, Brendon Nicol biography, p. 2; promotion notice lines 14–20) ## Personal achievements ### Relevant professional experience [brendon_nicol_career_record] Earlier career; exact dates not established in reviewed profile · issuer reported · medium materiality Chief Technical Officer; announcement describes project execution involvement including Carrapateena; full chronology not independently verified. **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. [Quarterly Activities/Appendix 5B Cash Flow Report]() (Brendon Nicol profile; career/role section) ## Environmental record ### Speewah heritage agreement breach acknowledged by Tivan [brendon_nicol_heritage] 2025 exploration program; acknowledged 22 September 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality On 22 September 2026 Tivan publicly apologised to Nganjuwarr Native Title Holders and acknowledged that its 2025 Speewah exploration program unintentionally breached a Heritage Protection Agreement; it accepted responsibility for process and record-keeping failures. Tivan said it had reviewed processes, strengthened procedures, required cultural-awareness training for staff and executives, and would pay A$50,000 compensation under a deed of release. The statement does not identify either executive as the operational decision-maker. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The company accepted responsibility. The evidence reviewed does not establish personal involvement by this executive; the event predates Ellin Lede’s recorded executive appointment and is not imputed to her. **Relevance:** Heritage controls and stakeholder trust are relevant to project delivery and oversight. [Statement from the Board of Tivan]() (Board statement; breach, corrective actions, training commitment and A$50,000 payment) ### 2025 Speewah HPA breach during technical leadership tenure [brendon_nicol_speewah_hpa_company_breach] 2025 activity; apology and response dated 22 September 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality Tivan’s Board stated on 22 September 2026 that the company unintentionally breached the HPA during its 2025 Speewah Fluorite exploration campaign because its processes and record-keeping fell short. It apologized to Nganjuwarr Native Title Holders, said Tivan had executed a Deed of Release with Giliwinggin Aboriginal Corporation and would pay $50,000, and reported strengthened controls and cultural-awareness training for employees and executives. Nicol was Technical Director in the 2025 leadership team. The announcement does not identify him as a decision-maker or allege personal misconduct; no regulator outcome was identified in targeted searches. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. This is a company-level admission overlapping Nicol’s technical leadership; evidence does not establish his role in approvals, recordkeeping or field execution. Company reports deed/compensation and remediation; payment completion was not separately verified. **Relevance:** Material environment and stakeholder-control signal in context of the CTO remit; personal responsibility remains unestablished. [Statement from the Board of Tivan]() (Board statement dated 22 September 2026, pp. 1–2); [Tivan announces formation of Leadership Team]() (Leadership announcement, lines 14–20 and Appendix A, p. 2) ## Suitability for the current role ### Role fit and evidence limits [brendon_nicol_role_fit] Assessment at cutoff 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · medium materiality Large-project execution, technical-development and finance/government experience fit project development; a documented heritage-agreement breach raises an oversight issue during the relevant company period. **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. [Quarterly Activities/Appendix 5B Cash Flow Report]() (Brendon Nicol profile; career/role section) ## Evidence gaps - The reviewed public professional and issuer materials did not establish verified degrees or professional credentials for this executive. - Exact dates for prior roles and independent confirmation of profile claims were unavailable in the reviewed materials. - The source did not disclose corrective actions, any regulator outcome or individual decision responsibility relating to the Heritage Protection Agreement breach. - Tivan does not state which individuals were responsible for deficient HPA processes/records or report a regulator outcome. Nicol’s specific involvement is not established; qualification dates were not supplied.