# Rafael Moreno Managing Director ## Career chronology - **CEO employment agreement commenced 23 November 2023; annual report records MD appointment 14 August 2025. Executive leadership started before board/MD title.: Viridis Mining & Minerals** — Chief Executive Officer; Managing Director. [Annual Report 2024]() (p. 23, service agreements); [Annual Report 2025]() (p. 18, directors report) - **Earlier career; exact dates and title vary across issuer bios; annual report describes senior/executive roles: Argosy Minerals** — Executive / senior leadership roles. [Annual Report 2025]() (p. 18) - **Earlier career; exact position and dates unresolved: Santos** — Senior leadership roles. [Annual Report 2025]() (p. 18) - **Earlier career; exact position and dates unresolved: INPEX** — Senior leadership roles. [Annual Report 2025]() (p. 18) - **Concurrent role stated in 2025 Viridis annual report: Bayan Mining & Minerals** — Non-Executive Director. [Annual Report 2025]() (p. 18) ## Education and qualifications ### Engineering and science degrees; Chartered Professional Engineer [vmm_moreno_education] As reported in 2025 annual report · issuer reported · medium materiality The 2025 annual report lists BChE (Hons) and BCSc and describes Moreno as a Chartered Professional Engineer. Awarding institutions, degree dates and current registration details were not independently checked. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. Issuer filing states degree abbreviations and professional status; direct academic/engineering-register verification was not completed. **Relevance:** Relevant engineering credentials for leadership of a processing-project developer. [Annual Report 2025]() (p. 18, qualifications and experience) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Major-project execution background claimed across prior employers [vmm_moreno_outcomes] Prior career, dates and projects not independently pinned down · issuer reported · medium materiality Viridis reports Moreno held senior roles at Argosy, Santos and INPEX, specializing in major-project execution and commercial/offtake work. This supports role relevance, but the company releases reviewed do not identify project-specific results, his individual authority, or comparator budgets; no particular completed project outcome is attributed to him here. **Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. Issuer reports employer associations and broad remit only; individual contribution and project outcomes were not independently documented. **Relevance:** Relevant experience for Viridis’s Colossus development, but insufficient to assess delivery quality. [Annual Report 2025]() (p. 18, experience and expertise) ## Suitability for the current role ### Role relevance and evidenced background [vmm_rafael_moreno_fit] Background reviewed through 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · low materiality The issuer reports 23+ years in mining and petrochemicals, with senior roles at Argosy, Santos and INPEX and major-project execution experience. Current title in the selected roster: Managing Director. This supports role relevance at a high level; the public evidence reviewed does not establish personal causal responsibility for employer or project outcomes. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Role-fit judgment based on the selected roster and issuer-reported professional background; no causal claim is made. **Relevance:** Relevant to the current Managing Director responsibilities, subject to the evidence limitations recorded below. [Board and Senior Leadership]() (Executive biography or corporate-directory entry for the named person) ### CEO employment preceded formal MD appointment [vmm_moreno_career] 23 November 2023–14 August 2025 · analyst inference · medium materiality Viridis’s 2024 annual report states Moreno’s CEO service agreement commenced 23 November 2023; its 2025 annual report records his director appointment as 14 August 2025. This resolves the apparent date difference: operational CEO employment and board appointment are distinct events. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. Two dated annual-report disclosures specify separate employment and director dates. **Relevance:** Establishes tenure overlap for assessing project progress and executive accountability. [Annual Report 2024]() (p. 23, CEO service agreement); [Annual Report 2025]() (p. 18, directors report) ## Evidence gaps - Prior-project names, job titles, dates, budget authority, commissioning/operating outcomes and personal responsibility at Argosy, Santos and INPEX need independent dated corroboration. - Chartered Professional Engineer status and degrees were not independently verified. - Viridis’s Colossus project outcomes are currently development milestones; the reviewed sources do not establish completed commercial operation under Moreno’s leadership. - Focused adverse searches produced no substantiated person-specific proceeding, but project and employer safety/environment enforcement histories were not fully reconciled.