# Brendan Tritton Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer ## Career chronology - **Current at company roster cutoff: Valiant Gold** — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. [Annual report 2026]() (PDF p.14, directors and appointment) - **Reported 2012–2015; independently unverified: Mincor Resources** — Mine engineer (secondary profile). [Brendan Tritton professional profile]() (Professional experience, Mincor roles); [Investor presentation October 2026]() (PDF p.4, issuer Mincor biography) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Valiant completed its IPO [tritton-ipo] March 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality Valiant reported admission and an A$75m pre-costs IPO in March 2026. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. He was MD/CEO, but the issuer describes a team effort; individual contribution was not isolated. **Relevance:** Shows an actual corporate financing outcome. [IPO successfully completed]() (p.1, listing and proceeds) ## Business failures and setbacks ### Mincor reported an FY2015 loss [tritton-mincor-loss] FY2015 · documented · medium materiality Mincor reported a FY2015 net loss of A$34.259m, including A$13.891m property, plant and equipment impairment. A secondary professional profile reports Tritton worked at Mincor during 2012–15; the exact dates and site have not been independently verified. **Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. A secondary profile suggests possible tenure overlap; no source connects him personally to the losses or impairment. **Relevance:** Former-employer financial context; no individual causal contribution established. [Mincor FY2015 preliminary report]() (Consolidated statement of profit or loss, FY2015); [Brendan Tritton professional profile]() (Reported Mincor employment period) ## Environmental record ### Mincor Miitel environmental enforcement [tritton-mincor-environment] 2015 incidents; 2016 penalties · documented · medium materiality The Western Australian enforcement register records March and April 2015 hypersaline-water discharges at Mincor’s Miitel mine, with two A$25,000 penalties dated April 2016. **Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. The issuer biography names Mincor experience but his precise tenure, site responsibility and any connection to these incidents are not established. No personal fault is inferred. **Relevance:** Former-employer environmental context, with individual overlap unresolved. [Environmental enforcement register]() (Environmental enforcement table, Mincor Miitel rows) ## Suitability for the current role ### Role-relevant experience [val-exec-tritton-fit] Before and during Valiant role · analyst inference · medium materiality The issuer reports mining-science training at the Western Australian School of Mines and past roles at Barrick Kanowna Belle and Mincor Kambalda; exact roles and dates have not been independently confirmed. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The description comes from the issuer and does not independently establish performance or credentials. **Relevance:** Relevant to the present role, subject to verification. [Annual report 2026]() (PDF p.14, directors and appointment); [Investor presentation October 2026]() (PDF p.4, management biographies) ## Evidence gaps - Person-specific topic and indexed regulator searches were performed; complete prior-employer chronology, underlying regulator/court registers and independently verified qualifications remain incomplete. - The issuer presentation identifies four directors and two officers on page 4 and the exploration manager on page 2; other unannounced senior roles cannot be excluded. - The presentation p.4 and annual report p.15 were visually inspected; other cached PDF pages cited were not visually inspected.