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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Audrey Ferguson

Company Secretary and General Counsel

Career chronology

  • Current at cutoff; exact start date not independently verified in this audit: AIC Mines — Company Secretary and General Counsel. Board and management (Relevant named person’s current issuer biography)

  • Before or during AIC tenure as described by the issuer; exact dates not determined in this audit: Rio Tinto — Legal and corporate roles. Board and management (Relevant named person’s current issuer biography)

Education and qualifications

Solicitor and director-governance training

Award and admission dates unconfirmed · issuer reported · medium materiality

AIC describes Ferguson as a qualified solicitor and AICD graduate with more than 25 years in legal and company-secretarial work. The law degree, university and current practicing status were not independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer-reported professional qualifications.

Relevance: Direct relevance to company-secretarial, governance and legal duties.

AIC Mines FY2025 annual financial report (pp.4–5, senior executive biographies; remuneration terms); Board and management (Relevant named person’s current issuer biography)

Contributions and company outcomes

Relevant governance experience; delivered outcomes thinly disclosed

Before AIC and current tenure · issuer reported · medium materiality

The 2022 appointment release identifies prior General Counsel/Company Secretary work at Bindaree and legal/corporate roles with Rio in London and Sydney across copper, diamonds, minerals and energy. It establishes breadth but gives no attributable transaction returns, dispute results or compliance improvements.

Attribution: Responsibility unresolved. Role history is established; participation in employer success is not proven merely by employment.

Relevance: A meaningful evidence limitation when judging executive effectiveness.

Company Secretary Appointment (p.1, appointment and prior roles)

Litigation and enforcement

Rio Mozambique case resolved; no personal link established

Underlying 2012 reporting; settlement November 2023 · issuer reported · low materiality

Rio settled the SEC Mozambique impairment case in 2023 for US$28m without admitting or denying the allegations. Ferguson worked in Rio legal/corporate roles, but her dates, remit and connection to the conduct are unestablished.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The reviewed resolution does not identify her; this must not be presented as a finding against Ferguson.

Relevance: Former-employer context only; no evidence connects her mandate to the enforcement matter.

Settlement with the SEC concerning Mozambique impairment (22 November 2023 settlement); Board and management (Relevant named person’s current issuer biography)

Suitability for the current role

Governance capability plausible; personal effectiveness needs evidence

Assessment at cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

Solicitor/company-secretary experience is relevant to AIC’s agreements, reporting and board process. Public evidence supports functional suitability but not a definitive judgment on her individual deal execution or compliance record.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Inference from disclosed roles and credential claims; no personally attributed enforcement identified in the documented searches.

Relevance: Professional experience supports role fit, while independently attributable legal and governance outcomes remain limited.

AIC Mines FY2025 annual financial report (pp.4–5, senior executive biographies; remuneration terms); Board and management (Relevant named person’s current issuer biography)

Evidence gaps

  • Rio sector breadth and London/Sydney locations are disclosed; exact dates, business-unit mandates and any link to the Mozambique matter remain unestablished.

  • LinkedIn education lead was inaccessible and is not treated as a verified degree.

  • No complete court, solicitor-disciplinary or current professional-register check was performed.

  • No primary record establishing material transaction, dispute or compliance outcomes attributable to her was located in the targeted searches.

  • The prior dossier and its earlier search logs were preserved separately. Prior search execution and citations not re-opened in this audit were not treated as independently verified; omitted claims require fresh source-level review.