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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Jed Whitford

Chief Operating Officer

Career chronology

Education and qualifications

Education information available in public profile

Profile as accessed 10 October 2026 · self reported · low materiality

The self-reported LinkedIn profile lists the University of Western Australia but the accessible text does not identify a degree, field or dates. No qualification is inferred or independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This records the profile entry only and does not claim that a degree was awarded.

Relevance: Qualification evidence remains incomplete for a senior operations role.

Jed Whitford – Astral Resources professional profile (Education section; no degree/subject visible)

Contributions and company outcomes

Resource, drilling and financing progress at Astral

FY2026; latest reported July–September 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Astral reported that FY2026 Mandilla resources reached 54 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au for 1.74 Moz, group resources reached 62 Mt for 2.07 Moz, approximately 84 km was drilled across its projects, and a $65 million equity raising was completed. The company remained in exploration/development; these company-level results do not establish this executive’s individual contribution.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Chief Operating Officer overlapped the reported company period, but no source identifies individual causation or gives this person sole credit for the resource, drilling or financing outcomes.

Relevance: Useful context for the company’s development progress; it is not evidence of gold production or an individually attributable success.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Review of Operations, pp. 4–5 (FY2026 resource, drilling and project status)); Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Placement, p. 33; quarterly activities and cashflow report, June 2026 quarter)

Rothsay advanced during Egan Street’s development period

2018–2019 development period · issuer reported · low materiality

Egan Street’s 2019 transaction announcement says Rothsay’s updated DFS confirmed technical viability in February 2019 and the mining proposal was approved in June 2019; the company was acquired before the project entered production. Whitford had been appointed General Manager–Rothsay in June 2018. No reviewed source attributes the DFS or approval outcome to him individually, and his precise cessation date is not disclosed.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The project role overlapped the study/approval period, but individual contribution is not documented.

Relevance: Relevant project-development context; not proof of personally delivered production or commissioning.

Egan Street Resources Limited Annual Report 2018 (FY2018 annual report, remuneration report p. 28, General Manager – Rothsay appointment); Silver Lake to acquire EganStreet Resources (Rothsay status and transaction, pp. 1–2)

Business failures and setbacks

Mandilla DFS timing moved beyond the original target

October 2025 to 29 October 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Astral’s 28 October 2025 appointment announcement targeted DFS completion by mid-2026, FID in the September 2026 quarter and first production by end-2027. The June 2026 quarterly report moved DFS completion to Q1 2027 and said FID was expected immediately thereafter; it noted heritage-clearance surveys had slowed and could delay final site layouts. This is a missed/revised company milestone, not evidence of an individual failure or a failed project. The 29 October 2026 September-quarter report continued to target Q1 2027 for the DFS and an FID thereafter; site layouts were complete and permit applications were still planned.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Chief Operating Officer overlaps the current project period. The issuer identifies permitting/heritage work as a timing dependency; no source attributes the delay to this individual.

Relevance: Execution timing matters to a pre-production gold developer, but the evidence supports a project-level schedule change only.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Highlights and project timetable, p. 1; first-production target, p. 1); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 Quarter (June-quarter update: DFS Q1 2027, FID immediately after; heritage-survey timing, June 2026 quarter); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – September 2026 (Highlights and Definitive Feasibility Study, pp. 1–2 and 16–17)

Environmental record

Issuer-reported environmental status

At 25 September 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Astral’s FY2026 annual report says that, as at the report date, the Group was not aware of any significant breaches of applicable environmental requirements. This is an issuer statement about the company, not an independent regulator check or a finding about this person; the report also identifies environmental, heritage and native-title risks.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Chief Operating Officer was part of the current management roster, but the annual report does not attribute environmental compliance decisions to this individual.

Relevance: Environmental compliance is relevant to project development and approvals; the issuer statement does not establish a clean personal or company record.

Astral Resources NL Annual Report 2026 (Environmental Regulation, p. 44; Environmental and Heritage, Native Title and Community Risks, pp. 30–31)

Suitability for the current role

Operations and process-safety experience relevant to Mandilla

Career to cutoff; AAR appointment 28 October 2025 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Astral’s October 2025 appointment release says Whitford has more than 25 years in mining, mainly gold and nickel, spanning exploration through mine closure, with roles in strategy, M&A, risk and process safety; his most recent role was in Glencore Nickel’s global management team. The issuer describes him as COO overseeing Mandilla DFS delivery. Analyst inference: this is relevant to project execution and operating readiness, but does not establish individual performance at prior employers.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role fit is inferred from issuer-reported experience and current remit, not independently validated against references or employment records.

Relevance: Relevant to a developer moving from studies and approvals toward construction and operations.

Key Appointments to Advance Mandilla Gold Project Towards Development and Operations (Appointment and biography, pp. 1–2); Astral Resources NL Executive Bios (Jed Whitford biography)

Evidence gaps

  • Exact dates and titles for most prior roles are not publicly specified in the reviewed sources; the Egan Street cessation date is not established.

  • The accessible profile lists UWA but no degree/field; no credential or membership verification was completed.

  • No direct evidence of Whitford’s individual contribution to the Rothsay study/approval or AAR resource and schedule outcomes was located.

  • No exhaustive employment, litigation, regulator, safety or sanctions check across prior employers was performed.

  • Earlier named-person and topic search records were inherited from the 10 October report and were not independently reconstructed. The 31 October search was broad; complete employer-by-employer and topic-by-topic verification remains incomplete.

  • Prior source describing his 2018 appointment was in fact the 2018 annual report; the event is supported by that report, while the exact earlier appointment announcement was not independently located.