Full background report
Richard Steenhof
General Counsel and Company Secretary
Career chronology
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current at 31 October 2026; start date disclosed only where cited: Alkane Resources — General Counsel and Company Secretary. Appointment of Joint Company Secretary (p.1)
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2021 to 19 January 2024: Resolute Mining — General Counsel and Company Secretary. Annual Report 2023 (leadership team biography)
Education and qualifications
Reported qualifications and evidence limits
Education disclosed in cited source · issuer reported · low materiality
Resolute annual report lists an LLB with distinction; independent qualification confirmation was not obtained.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Professional credentials are reported in the source; validation against a primary institutional register was not obtained.
Relevance: Qualification and role fit assessment.
Annual Report 2023 (Named personnel and qualifications or biography)
Suitability for the current role
Experience relevant to disclosed responsibilities
Career through 31 October 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality
Analyst inference: Joined Alkane as General Counsel in February 2026 and company secretary in April; previously Resolute general counsel and secretary 2021–January 2024. The linked sources do not establish the individual’s causal contribution to every operational or corporate outcome.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role relevance is an inference; employer results do not establish an individual track record.
Relevance: Matches disclosed responsibilities to observed career, with attribution limits.
Appointment of Joint Company Secretary (p.1); Management (Management list)
Evidence gaps
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Independent verification of reported qualifications and full employer/appointment chronology was not obtained.
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Open-web searches are limited; company events do not establish individual responsibility.
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Separate topic-specific adverse and prior-employer searches were not completed; the combined batched search results were truncated, so this screening is incomplete.