Full background report
Jeremy Carter
Chief Strategy Officer
Career chronology
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12 years in 2009 biography;13 years in 2026 biography; exact dates unverified: McKinsey & Company — Mining strategy consultant. Clean TeQ FY2009 annual report (PDF p25, biography); Aura appoints leadership team to build Tiris (Prior consulting experience)
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10 September 2007–2 August 2010: Clean TeQ Holdings — Executive Director; strategy/business development; nomination/remuneration committee. Clean TeQ FY2009 annual report (PDF p25); Clean TeQ FY2011 annual report (PDF p24, retirement)
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25 years reported; client mandates mostly undated: Independent mining strategy consultancy — Strategy and process-development advisory. Aura appoints leadership team to build Tiris (Carter biography)
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Adviser from November 2025; CSO announced 1 October 2026: Aura Energy — Strategy adviser, then Chief Strategy Officer. Aura appoints leadership team to build Tiris (Carter appointment and advisory period)
Education and qualifications
Veterinary science, research doctorate and MBA reported
Historical degrees reported 2009;2026 biography · issuer reported · low materiality
Clean TeQ reports a Bachelor of Veterinary Science, a University of Queensland PhD and an INSEAD MBA. Aura describes the doctorate as physiology/pharmacology. Conferral records were not independently verified; the doctorate is not described as a mining-engineering credential.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Two employer accounts support the professional claim, without institutional verification.
Relevance: Analytical and strategy background, with a distinct engineering-credential limit.
Clean TeQ FY2009 annual report (PDF p25); Aura appoints leadership team to build Tiris (Carter education)
Contributions and company outcomes
Clean TeQ reported profitable growth during his board tenure
FY2010 · documented · medium materiality
FY2010 Clean TeQ reported A$17.1m revenue, 100% year-on-year growth and A$1.334m net profit. It acquired UV-Guard in July 2009 and delivered environmental-services projects. Carter served as an executive director through 2 August 2010; the financial result is an employer outcome, without a quantified individual contribution.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Board tenure overlaps the outcome; the report assigns strategy involvement but not a personal share of profit.
Relevance: Relevant technology-commercialisation and capital-allocation experience.
Clean TeQ FY2010 annual report (PDF pp 3–6, results and projects); Clean TeQ FY2011 annual report (PDF p24, retirement)
Aura directly credits 2026 advisory work, with operating delivery pending
November 2025–October 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality
Aura credits Carter with assembling specialist engineers, supporting flowsheet consensus in April and May 2026 and recruiting local leaders. Its feasibility study was published on 16 October; pilot commissioning remained forecast for November. These reported advisory contributions and a study do not demonstrate mine commissioning or profitable uranium operations.
Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Specific advisory contribution is claimed by Aura; independent process validation and operating output remain incomplete.
Relevance: Relevant immediate strategic/technical coordination for Tiris.
Aura appoints leadership team to build Tiris (Carter contribution); Aura FY2026 annual report (PDF pp 7–9); Aura September 2026 quarterly activities and cash-flow report (Tiris project update and subsequent events)
Business failures and setbacks
Clean TeQ’s mining technology remained largely at study/pilot stage
FY2010; laterFY2011 chronology · issuer reported · low materiality
TheFY2010 report describes mining/water work largely as scoping and pilot projects and highlights the difficulty of moving technologies from demonstration to commercial production. LaterFY2011 losses occurred after Carter’s August 2010 departure and are not attributed to continuing executive oversight.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The study/pilot limitation overlaps his tenure; post-departure financial outcomes are not personally assigned.
Relevance: Important distinction for evaluating advice on another uncommissioned flowsheet.
Clean TeQ FY2010 annual report (PDF pp 5–6, technology-commercialisation limits); Clean TeQ FY2011 annual report (PDF p24, end of tenure)
Suitability for the current role
Fit for Aura’s next development stage
Assessment at 10 October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality
Mining strategy, prior technology-company board work and documented Aura coordination fit the strategy role. Commercialisation remains the central unproven step, and confidential client history restricts independent outcome checks.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Analytical judgment based on the cited career and delivery evidence.
Relevance: Professional suitability for the disclosed role; this is not a personal integrity score.
Clean TeQ FY2009 annual report (PDF p25); Clean TeQ FY2010 annual report (PDF pp 3–6); Aura appoints leadership team to build Tiris (CSO responsibilities)
Evidence gaps
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Exact McKinsey years and independent consulting mandate outcomes remain unavailable; the 12/13-year biography discrepancy is retained as approximate tenure.
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University conferral records and personally attributed operating, safety/environment and shareholder-return outcomes were not established.
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An exact CSO commencement day was not distinguished from the 1 October announcement; role-effective date remains null.
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Earlier 10 October person/topic searches were inherited and were not independently reproduced in the 31 October refresh; the later search was targeted rather than a complete repeat of every topic.