Full background report
David Brink
General Manager – Operations
Career chronology
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Appointed 25 August 2025: Alligator Energy Limited — General Manager – Operations. Alligator Energy Limited Annual Report 2026 (p. 39; remuneration note)
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Role identified in UNSW report in November 2022; full start and end dates not established: Beach Energy — Completion and Well Intervention Manager. SPE UNSW student chapter conference and Beach Energy visit (panel discussion during 2022 Beach Energy visit)
Contributions and company outcomes
Operations tenure overlapped on-schedule FRT construction and uranium recovery trial
Aug 2025–Jul 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality
Brink’s appointment on 25 August 2025 preceded construction, commissioning and the FRT operating period. The company reported practical completion in line with schedule in December 2025, approximately 70% recovery for Pattern 1 before it was shut down after gypsum scaling, and Pattern 2 achieved about 17% recovery over 15 PVEs after technical objectives were met. Brink’s remit covered operational management and project delivery across Samphire and the exploration portfolio; the report does not isolate his decisions or assert that the project is commercially proven.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The CEO/annual report documents operations responsibility and overlapping dates; causal responsibility for individual milestone and process results is not established.
Relevance: Relevant operational execution evidence. The trial did not demonstrate commercial-scale viability or commercial production.
Alligator Energy Limited Annual Report 2026 (pp. 10, 13–15, 39; remuneration note); Alligator Energy Annual Report 2025 (p. 17)
Suitability for the current role
Three decades of international upstream operations experience
Career to Aug 2025 · analyst inference · medium materiality
The company reports more than 30 years of international upstream oil and gas leadership. FY2025 report gives BEng Mechanical Engineering. A detailed employer-by-employer chronology and degree institution were not established from opened primary sources.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer reporting supports experience and degree; detailed tenure chronology remains incomplete.
Relevance: Operations/project experience transfers to trial construction and wellfield operations, but uranium ISR is a specialized process and commercial outcome remains unproven.
Alligator Energy Limited Annual Report 2026 (p. 39); Alligator Energy Annual Report 2025 (p. 17)
Evidence gaps
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Exact dates and attributed outcomes at prior employers remain incomplete.
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No reviewed evidence established a person-specific fraud, safety, environmental or legal finding beyond those stated above; open-web searches are not exhaustive checks.
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Employer compliance histories and credential registers have not been comprehensively checked.
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Earlier person/topic search logs were inherited from the historical report and could not be independently verified. The October 31 review used broad searches; topic-specific records, full employer histories and independent credential checks remain incomplete.
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A prior report listed several earlier employers without supporting source references; only the documented 2022 Beach Energy role is retained.