Andre Bezuidenhout

Career chronology

• Current at cutoff; start date not stated: Asara Resources — Principal Geologist. Corporate Presentation (leadership team p. 6); About / Proven Team (management team)

• Over 15 years reported; employers/dates not disclosed: Mining/geology consulting — Exploration, consulting and project development. Corporate Presentation (leadership team p. 6)

Contributions and company outcomes

Kada resource and exploration growth under current team

2025–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Asara’s 2026 filings report a 923 koz resource at Massan/Kada and active drilling; a 2026 quarter describes substantial resource growth and a A$60m placement supporting further exploration. The team’s roles overlap company progress, but personal responsibility is not isolated.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. These company outcomes overlap tenure for current management, where tenure is known; individual contribution is not separately established.

Relevance: Relevant to exploration-stage execution; no operating mine or production outcome yet.

Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 (June quarter resource/drilling and funding update); Corporate Presentation (Kada project/team)

Business failures and setbacks

Exploration-stage funding dependence; no producing mine

2025–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Asara’s 2025 report describes an exploration entity with no operating cash flow and dependence on external financing. Subsequent A$60m financing materially supports continued work. This is a stage/funding risk, not evidence of executive misconduct.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Company financial condition overlaps management but does not establish individual failure or poor capital allocation.

Relevance: Relevant to stewardship and conversion of resources into a financeable project.

2025 Annual Report (material business risks, funding and cashflow); Quarterly Activities & Cashflow Report – June 2026 (June quarter financing and activities)

Suitability for the current role

Professional background and role relevance

Career record to cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

Asara reports more than 15 years across geology, mining, exploration, consulting and project development, particularly in West Africa. Its April 2026 presentation assigns him the Principal Geologist role. Reviewed public material does not identify his employers, dates, degrees, professional registration or quantified prior project outcomes; these remain specific evidence gaps.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Sources provide selected background details, mostly issuer-reported; independent corroboration is incomplete.

Relevance: Experience and qualifications are relevant to the current functional remit, with evidence limitations.

About / Proven Team (Andre Bezuidenhout biography); Corporate Presentation (leadership team, p. 6)

Evidence gaps

• Several management roles lack appointment dates and full biographies in dated filings.

• Open-source review is not an exhaustive background, credentials, sanctions, litigation or regulator-record check.

• Guinea safety/environmental and community evidence is mainly issuer-reported in sources reviewed.

• A 2014 South African High Court search hit named an Andre Bezuidenhout in a Department of Correctional Services accounting-store fraud case; the primary judgment could not be opened in this review, and no employer, occupation, birth detail or other identifier links that respondent to Asara’s geologist. Identity and final disposition were therefore not independently resolved, and no allegation is attributed to this executive.