Ausgold Limited

Career chronology

• 16 May 2024–cutoff: Ausgold Limited — Executive Chairman. Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 32 and 43; appointment 16 May 2024); Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 15-17; retained as Executive Chairman in May 2026)

• CEO from 2012; the issuer annual report says he led project construction and reached production during his tenure; exact start and end dates are not independently stated in the annual report.: Roxgold Inc. — President, Chief Executive Officer and Director. Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 32; career and Yaramoko production timing)

• Before Newmont acquisition; exact dates not disclosed: Fronteer Gold — Vice President, Business Development. Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 32; Fronteer Gold career and Newmont transaction)

• Earlier career; exact dates not disclosed: Bankwest / MPI Mines / Leviathan Resources — Project finance manager and senior mining/corporate roles. Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 32)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional qualification evidence

Qualifications as reported through cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality

BCom (Hons), Graduate Diploma Applied Finance & Investment, Graduate Diploma Chartered Secretaries Australia and CFA are listed in the FY2026 annual report; credential verification was not independently completed.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The listed qualifications are reported in issuer material or the identified secondary profile; no independent credential verification was completed.

Relevance: Qualifications are relevant to evaluating role fit and executive experience.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 32, qualifications and biography)

Contributions and company outcomes

Documented current-company outcome and attribution limit

FY2025–2026 / appointment period · issuer reported · medium materiality

At Roxgold, the issuer annual report says he led the team that built Yaramoko and reached production within four years after a maiden inferred resource; during his tenure Roxgold secured the Seguela project. The company-level IFC review during construction described E&S control plans still being completed, while reporting no significant incidents to that review date. Fronteer Gold was acquired by Newmont for US$2.3bn; the annual report says Dorward played a key negotiating role. Attribution remains issuer-reported.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Public materials document the company milestones and the person’s role or appointment, but do not establish sole individual causation.

Relevance: Relevant to the record of delivery at a development-stage gold project.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 35, 38, 41; KGP development, executive additions and missed FID KPI); Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-35)

Business failures and setbacks

FY2026 final-investment-decision target not met

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Ausgold's 2026 annual report says the company KPI was to achieve a financial investment decision for Katanning; the KPI was not achieved and the board awarded no FY26 STI. The record attributes no individual cause. The company later announced a recommended acquisition by OceanaGold, subject to scheme process.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. This is an issuer-reported company outcome. Dorward and the FY26 KMP overlapped the period; the report does not establish personal causation. Other people either joined near/after the period or their responsibility is not shown.

Relevance: Relevant to delivery against stated company development milestones.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 41-42 and 38; KPI not achieved, no STI, transaction announcement context)

Environmental record

Environmental review and approvals remain ongoing

2025–2026 · documented · low materiality

The FY2026 annual report records that the Western Australian EPA authorised the Katanning Environmental Review Document for public release in mid-July 2026, while the works approval application remained under assessment. The federal EPBC portal also lists the project assessment and avoidance areas. These are ongoing approval steps and proposed impacts, not evidence of an environmental breach. The annual report states directors were not aware of a material breach of applicable environmental legislation during FY26.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Project-level regulatory status; no individual responsibility for the proposed impact/approval decision is established.

Relevance: Material to oversight of a proposed mine, but no breach finding is documented.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 35, environmental regulation statement); Ausgold – Katanning Gold Project EPBC 2025/10232 referral summary (lines 55-57 and project decision list, varied proposal and assessment records)

Governance and interests

Historical IFC review identified E&S system actions during Yaramoko construction

2015–2016 · documented · low materiality

IFC’s 2015 review of Roxgold’s Yaramoko project stated that multiple management plans, including OHS, emergency response, waste and environmental controls, were being finalized and that additional EHS capacity was to be engaged. At that review point, it also reported no significant incidents since operations began. Dorward’s CEO tenure overlapped project construction. These are project-level oversight facts, not proof of his personal fault or a finding of breach.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The IFC source assigns responsibility to Roxgold’s company/site management structure; it does not name Dorward as responsible for the specific action plan or record misconduct.

Relevance: Relevant as a due-diligence context for prior project oversight; no personal adverse finding is established.

Yaramoko Environmental and Social Review Summary (lines 325-343, 372-389)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant experience for current role

Career through 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Dated issuer disclosures describe an international finance/resources executive, prior project-finance role, Roxgold leadership, project construction and the Fronteer transaction. These are relevant to executive oversight of a development-stage gold project and corporate financing. Career outcomes are largely issuer-reported; no education registry verification was located.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit inference from cited issuer/secondary biography evidence; it does not assign causation for prior employer results.

Relevance: Experience in finance, governance, operations or project delivery maps to the role described in the selected roster.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 32, qualifications and biography)

Evidence gaps

• No independent education verification or complete primary-source dated chronology of all earlier roles was located. Historical Yaramoko E&S review is project-level and does not establish personal responsibility.

• Ausgold had not achieved KGP FID by the cutoff; public sources do not establish any one executive as the cause. The annual report records environmental approvals remained in progress.

Career chronology

• CFO from 1 August 2024; CEO from 14 May 2026: Ausgold Limited — Chief Executive Officer; previously Chief Financial Officer. Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 35, 40, 43; Co-Company Secretary appointment 9 October 2025 and CEO transition); Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-14)

• Most recent prior role before Ausgold, as described on the undated issuer page accessed at cutoff; exact dates not disclosed.: Sunrise Energy Metals Limited — Chief Financial Officer. Board & Management (undated leadership-page search result; current biography states most recently CFO at Sunrise Energy Metals)

• More than 25 years experience; employers/role chronology not fully disclosed: Resources industry — Senior finance/commercial leadership. Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-14)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional qualification evidence

Qualifications as reported through cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality

No degree or professional qualification was identified in the issuer annual report or appointment release; qualification gap remains.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The listed qualifications are reported in issuer material or the identified secondary profile; no independent credential verification was completed.

Relevance: Qualifications are relevant to evaluating role fit and executive experience.

Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-14); Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 35 and 43); Board & Management (undated leadership-page text)

Contributions and company outcomes

Documented current-company outcome and attribution limit

FY2025–2026 / appointment period · issuer reported · medium materiality

The board said he played an instrumental role in Ausgold progress during his CFO tenure, but this is issuer attribution. The FY2026 company KPI of reaching Katanning FID was not achieved and no STI was awarded. The missed target overlapped his time as CFO then CEO; the annual report does not assign individual cause. A$90m equity raising in FY26 supported development, but was a company financing outcome, not an individual-only achievement.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Public materials document the company milestones and the person’s role or appointment, but do not establish sole individual causation.

Relevance: Relevant to the record of delivery at a development-stage gold project.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 35, 38, 41; KGP development, executive additions and missed FID KPI); Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-35)

Business failures and setbacks

FY2026 final-investment-decision target not met

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Ausgold's 2026 annual report says the company KPI was to achieve a financial investment decision for Katanning; the KPI was not achieved and the board awarded no FY26 STI. The record attributes no individual cause. The company later announced a recommended acquisition by OceanaGold, subject to scheme process.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. This is an issuer-reported company outcome. Dorward and the FY26 KMP overlapped the period; the report does not establish personal causation. Other people either joined near/after the period or their responsibility is not shown.

Relevance: Relevant to delivery against stated company development milestones.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 41-42 and 38; KPI not achieved, no STI, transaction announcement context)

Environmental record

Environmental review and approvals remain ongoing

2025–2026 · documented · low materiality

The FY2026 annual report records that the Western Australian EPA authorised the Katanning Environmental Review Document for public release in mid-July 2026, while the works approval application remained under assessment. The federal EPBC portal also lists the project assessment and avoidance areas. These are ongoing approval steps and proposed impacts, not evidence of an environmental breach. The annual report states directors were not aware of a material breach of applicable environmental legislation during FY26.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. Project-level regulatory status; no individual responsibility for the proposed impact/approval decision is established.

Relevance: Material to oversight of a proposed mine, but no breach finding is documented.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 35, environmental regulation statement); Ausgold – Katanning Gold Project EPBC 2025/10232 referral summary (lines 55-57 and project decision list, varied proposal and assessment records)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant experience for current role

Career through 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Appointment materials report more than 25 years in resources, finance and commercial leadership, with corporate/project debt and equity financings, M&A and metals marketing/logistics. Those functions fit a developer preparing financing and project execution. Detailed chronology and qualifications remain undisclosed in the dated sources.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit inference from cited issuer/secondary biography evidence; it does not assign causation for prior employer results.

Relevance: Experience in finance, governance, operations or project delivery maps to the role described in the selected roster.

Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-14); Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 35 and 43); Board & Management (undated leadership-page text)

Evidence gaps

• Public dated sources reviewed do not provide a complete independently verifiable chronology of prior roles and delivered outcomes; dates are left approximate or unknown where not disclosed.

• The reviewed sources do not identify a degree or independently verifiable professional credential for this individual.

• Ausgold had not achieved KGP FID by the cutoff; public sources do not establish any one executive as the cause. The annual report records environmental approvals remained in progress.

Career chronology

• Appointed 9 October 2025–cutoff: Ausgold Limited — Co-Company Secretary. Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 35; both co-secretaries appointed 9 October 2025)

• At least as reported in 2026 annual report; exact commencement unknown: Vistra Australia — Governance/legal professional; employee providing company secretarial services. Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 35; lawyer/governance professional and employee of Vistra Australia)

• Prior/ongoing experience; entities and dates not disclosed: ASX-listed entities — Company secretarial functions. Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 35)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional qualification evidence

Qualifications as reported through cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality

No degree, admission details or professional memberships are disclosed in the reviewed dated sources.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The listed qualifications are reported in issuer material or the identified secondary profile; no independent credential verification was completed.

Relevance: Qualifications are relevant to evaluating role fit and executive experience.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 35)

Contributions and company outcomes

Documented current-company outcome and attribution limit

FY2025–2026 / appointment period · issuer reported · medium materiality

The annual report documents her appointment as co-company secretary on 9 October 2025. No personal operating or financial achievement is documented in the reviewed sources; this corporate-secretarial appointment is evidence of role, not a performance outcome.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Public materials document the company milestones and the person’s role or appointment, but do not establish sole individual causation.

Relevance: Relevant to the record of delivery at a development-stage gold project.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 35, 38, 41; KGP development, executive additions and missed FID KPI); Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-35)

Business failures and setbacks

FY2026 final-investment-decision target not met

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Ausgold's 2026 annual report says the company KPI was to achieve a financial investment decision for Katanning; the KPI was not achieved and the board awarded no FY26 STI. The record attributes no individual cause. The company later announced a recommended acquisition by OceanaGold, subject to scheme process.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. This is an issuer-reported company outcome. Dorward and the FY26 KMP overlapped the period; the report does not establish personal causation. Other people either joined near/after the period or their responsibility is not shown.

Relevance: Relevant to delivery against stated company development milestones.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 41-42 and 38; KPI not achieved, no STI, transaction announcement context)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant experience for current role

Career through 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The annual report describes Huang as a lawyer and governance professional with extensive legal and company-secretarial experience at listed entities. This background aligns with secretarial and governance duties. Her specific legal admission, qualifications, prior employers and individual listed-company mandates are not named in the dated report.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit inference from cited issuer/secondary biography evidence; it does not assign causation for prior employer results.

Relevance: Experience in finance, governance, operations or project delivery maps to the role described in the selected roster.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 35)

Evidence gaps

• Public dated sources reviewed do not provide a complete independently verifiable chronology of prior roles and delivered outcomes; dates are left approximate or unknown where not disclosed.

• The reviewed sources do not identify a degree or independently verifiable professional credential for this individual.

Career chronology

• 1 February 2025–cutoff: Ausgold Limited — Chief Operating Officer. 2025 Annual Report (pp. 29, 36; appointed 1 February 2025); Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 43; current COO and employment terms)

• Earlier; dates not stated: Newcrest Mining — General Manager – Telfer; General Manager – Hidden Valley. 2025 Annual Report (p. 29)

• Earlier; date not stated: Mount Gibson Iron — Chief Operating Officer. 2025 Annual Report (p. 29)

• Earlier; date not stated: Mineral Resources — Executive General Manager – Wodgina. 2025 Annual Report (p. 29)

• Earlier; exact title and dates not disclosed in the opened annual report section: Ambatovy — Senior operating/project role. 2025 Annual Report (p. 29)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional qualification evidence

Qualifications as reported through cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality

Official current issuer biography search result identifies chemical engineering, First Class Honours, University of New South Wales and AUSIMM membership; undated issuer page means independent verification and historical credential dates remain gaps.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The listed qualifications are reported in issuer material or the identified secondary profile; no independent credential verification was completed.

Relevance: Qualifications are relevant to evaluating role fit and executive experience.

2025 Annual Report (p. 29; COO appointment and experience); Board & Management (undated issuer biography search result; qualification and membership)

Contributions and company outcomes

Documented current-company outcome and attribution limit

FY2025–2026 / appointment period · issuer reported · medium materiality

During FY26, Ausgold advanced the KGP DFS update, early works, engineering and permitting, but the board’s stated FY26 goal of achieving FID was missed; no FY26 STI was awarded. This period overlaps Mitchell’s COO role, but the company record does not attribute the delay to him. No operating mine outcome exists yet for his current employer.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Public materials document the company milestones and the person’s role or appointment, but do not establish sole individual causation.

Relevance: Relevant to the record of delivery at a development-stage gold project.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 35, 38, 41; KGP development, executive additions and missed FID KPI); Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-35)

Business failures and setbacks

FY2026 final-investment-decision target not met

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Ausgold's 2026 annual report says the company KPI was to achieve a financial investment decision for Katanning; the KPI was not achieved and the board awarded no FY26 STI. The record attributes no individual cause. The company later announced a recommended acquisition by OceanaGold, subject to scheme process.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. This is an issuer-reported company outcome. Dorward and the FY26 KMP overlapped the period; the report does not establish personal causation. Other people either joined near/after the period or their responsibility is not shown.

Relevance: Relevant to delivery against stated company development milestones.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 41-42 and 38; KPI not achieved, no STI, transaction announcement context)

Environmental record

Environmental review and approvals remain ongoing

2025–2026 · documented · low materiality

The FY2026 annual report records that the Western Australian EPA authorised the Katanning Environmental Review Document for public release in mid-July 2026, while the works approval application remained under assessment. The federal EPBC portal also lists the project assessment and avoidance areas. These are ongoing approval steps and proposed impacts, not evidence of an environmental breach. The annual report states directors were not aware of a material breach of applicable environmental legislation during FY26.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Project-level regulatory status; no individual responsibility for the proposed impact/approval decision is established.

Relevance: Material to oversight of a proposed mine, but no breach finding is documented.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 35, environmental regulation statement); Ausgold – Katanning Gold Project EPBC 2025/10232 referral summary (lines 55-57 and project decision list, varied proposal and assessment records)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant experience for current role

Career through 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Annual reports describe prior COO, mine-general-management and project development roles, and the issuer page reports a chemical-engineering qualification. This experience is relevant to the COO role at a proposed open-pit gold mine moving toward construction. Exact employer dates and qualification were not independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit inference from cited issuer/secondary biography evidence; it does not assign causation for prior employer results.

Relevance: Experience in finance, governance, operations or project delivery maps to the role described in the selected roster.

2025 Annual Report (p. 29; COO appointment and experience); Board & Management (undated issuer biography search result; qualification and membership)

Evidence gaps

• Public dated sources reviewed do not provide a complete independently verifiable chronology of prior roles and delivered outcomes; dates are left approximate or unknown where not disclosed.

• Ausgold had not achieved KGP FID by the cutoff; public sources do not establish any one executive as the cause. The annual report records environmental approvals remained in progress.

Career chronology

• Appointed 21 July 2026–cutoff: Ausgold Limited — Chief Financial Officer. Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 38; appointment after year-end as reported in directors report); Tammie Dixon profile (position history shows appointment not captured; secondary profile, current role summary)

• Before Ausgold; secondary source reports role through July 2026: Tivan Limited — Chief Financial Officer. Tammie Dixon profile (position history; secondary company/person profile)

• 2019–2021 per Business News profile: Capricorn Metals — Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary. Tammie Dixon profile (position history)

• 2015–2019 per Business News profile: Regis Resources — Financial Controller. Tammie Dixon profile (position history)

• Earlier career; 2002–2008 per Business News profile: Equigold / Hardman Resources — Financial Accountant / Corporate Tax Accountant. Tammie Dixon profile (position history)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional qualification evidence

Qualifications as reported through cutoff · self reported · low materiality

Business News identifies Dixon as a Certified Practising Accountant. A degree is not shown in that profile; credential status was not checked independently.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The listed qualifications are reported in issuer material or the identified secondary profile; no independent credential verification was completed.

Relevance: Qualifications are relevant to evaluating role fit and executive experience.

Tammie Dixon profile (lines 115-120 and career-history list); Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 38; appointed CFO subsequent to year-end)

Contributions and company outcomes

Documented current-company outcome and attribution limit

FY2025–2026 / appointment period · issuer reported · medium materiality

No AUC financial outcome can be attributed personally to Dixon within the roughly 11 weeks between her July 2026 appointment and the cutoff. Her past role summaries alone do not document delivered outcomes.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Public materials document the company milestones and the person’s role or appointment, but do not establish sole individual causation.

Relevance: Relevant to the record of delivery at a development-stage gold project.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 35, 38, 41; KGP development, executive additions and missed FID KPI); Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-35)

Business failures and setbacks

FY2026 final-investment-decision target not met

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Ausgold's 2026 annual report says the company KPI was to achieve a financial investment decision for Katanning; the KPI was not achieved and the board awarded no FY26 STI. The record attributes no individual cause. The company later announced a recommended acquisition by OceanaGold, subject to scheme process.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. This is an issuer-reported company outcome. Dorward and the FY26 KMP overlapped the period; the report does not establish personal causation. Other people either joined near/after the period or their responsibility is not shown.

Relevance: Relevant to delivery against stated company development milestones.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 41-42 and 38; KPI not achieved, no STI, transaction announcement context)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant experience for current role

Career through 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The secondary profile reports more than 18 years of resources-sector finance, CPA qualification and senior roles at Regis, Equigold and Hardman; its role chronology also includes Capricorn. This is relevant to a mining developer CFO, although dates and qualifications rely on secondary reporting and were not independently checked.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit inference from cited issuer/secondary biography evidence; it does not assign causation for prior employer results.

Relevance: Experience in finance, governance, operations or project delivery maps to the role described in the selected roster.

Tammie Dixon profile (lines 115-120 and career-history list); Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (p. 38; appointed CFO subsequent to year-end)

Evidence gaps

• Public dated sources reviewed do not provide a complete independently verifiable chronology of prior roles and delivered outcomes; dates are left approximate or unknown where not disclosed.

• CPA and role history are reported in a secondary profile; no direct professional-body verification or issuer biography was located.

Career chronology

• Appointed by 14 May 2026; exact commencement date not disclosed: Ausgold Limited — General Manager Operations, Katanning Gold Project. Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 18-26); Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 13, 29; leadership appointments)

• Most recent prior role; exact dates not disclosed: Fenix Resources — General Manager, Weld Range Project. Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 24-26)

• Over previous decade, per issuer appointment release; exact sites/dates not listed: Mount Gibson Iron — General Manager Operations roles at multiple mines. Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 18-24)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional qualification evidence

Qualifications as reported through cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality

No degree or professional membership identified in the reviewed sources.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The listed qualifications are reported in issuer material or the identified secondary profile; no independent credential verification was completed.

Relevance: Qualifications are relevant to evaluating role fit and executive experience.

Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 18-26)

Contributions and company outcomes

Documented current-company outcome and attribution limit

FY2025–2026 / appointment period · issuer reported · medium materiality

Ausgold hired Olney to support project development and lead operational-readiness planning. Appointment is not evidence of completed construction or production, neither of which had occurred by the cutoff.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Public materials document the company milestones and the person’s role or appointment, but do not establish sole individual causation.

Relevance: Relevant to the record of delivery at a development-stage gold project.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 35, 38, 41; KGP development, executive additions and missed FID KPI); Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-35)

Business failures and setbacks

FY2026 final-investment-decision target not met

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Ausgold's 2026 annual report says the company KPI was to achieve a financial investment decision for Katanning; the KPI was not achieved and the board awarded no FY26 STI. The record attributes no individual cause. The company later announced a recommended acquisition by OceanaGold, subject to scheme process.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. This is an issuer-reported company outcome. Dorward and the FY26 KMP overlapped the period; the report does not establish personal causation. Other people either joined near/after the period or their responsibility is not shown.

Relevance: Relevant to delivery against stated company development milestones.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 41-42 and 38; KPI not achieved, no STI, transaction announcement context)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant experience for current role

Career through 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The issuer describes over 30 years of multi-commodity mining experience across open-cut and underground operations, prior GM Operations roles at Mount Gibson and most recently GM Weld Range at Fenix. This is directly relevant to operational readiness; detailed site-by-site outcomes and qualifications are not public in the reviewed source.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit inference from cited issuer/secondary biography evidence; it does not assign causation for prior employer results.

Relevance: Experience in finance, governance, operations or project delivery maps to the role described in the selected roster.

Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 18-26)

Evidence gaps

• Public dated sources reviewed do not provide a complete independently verifiable chronology of prior roles and delivered outcomes; dates are left approximate or unknown where not disclosed.

• The reviewed sources do not identify a degree or independently verifiable professional credential for this individual.

Career chronology

• Appointed 9 June 2026–cutoff: Ausgold Limited — Project Director, Katanning Gold Project. Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Project Director (lines 4-13)

• Most recent prior; end date not disclosed: BP — Commissioning Manager, Kwinana Oil Terminal. Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Project Director (lines 8-13)

• Earlier; individual titles and dates not all disclosed in appointment release: South32; SO4 Potash; Covalent Lithium; Fortescue; BCI Minerals — Senior project delivery roles. Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Project Director (lines 8-13)

Education and qualifications

Education and professional qualification evidence

Qualifications as reported through cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality

No degree, engineering discipline or professional membership is specified in the reviewed appointment release.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The listed qualifications are reported in issuer material or the identified secondary profile; no independent credential verification was completed.

Relevance: Qualifications are relevant to evaluating role fit and executive experience.

Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Project Director (lines 4-13)

Contributions and company outcomes

Documented current-company outcome and attribution limit

FY2025–2026 / appointment period · issuer reported · medium materiality

Ausgold appointed Sofield to direct the Katanning project in June 2026. No subsequent construction completion or first production is documented at cutoff; planned work is not counted as delivered success.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Public materials document the company milestones and the person’s role or appointment, but do not establish sole individual causation.

Relevance: Relevant to the record of delivery at a development-stage gold project.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 35, 38, 41; KGP development, executive additions and missed FID KPI); Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of CEO and GM Operations (lines 10-35)

Business failures and setbacks

FY2026 final-investment-decision target not met

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Ausgold's 2026 annual report says the company KPI was to achieve a financial investment decision for Katanning; the KPI was not achieved and the board awarded no FY26 STI. The record attributes no individual cause. The company later announced a recommended acquisition by OceanaGold, subject to scheme process.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. This is an issuer-reported company outcome. Dorward and the FY26 KMP overlapped the period; the report does not establish personal causation. Other people either joined near/after the period or their responsibility is not shown.

Relevance: Relevant to delivery against stated company development milestones.

Ausgold Annual Report 2026 (pp. 41-42 and 38; KPI not achieved, no STI, transaction announcement context)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant experience for current role

Career through 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The issuer reports more than 25 years in mining, resources and oil and gas, complex greenfield and brownfield project delivery and a recent commissioning role at BP’s Kwinana Oil Terminal. That experience aligns with project execution duties. Exact chronology, credentials and outcomes per employer remain gaps.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit inference from cited issuer/secondary biography evidence; it does not assign causation for prior employer results.

Relevance: Experience in finance, governance, operations or project delivery maps to the role described in the selected roster.

Ausgold Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Appointment of Project Director (lines 4-13)

Evidence gaps

• Public dated sources reviewed do not provide a complete independently verifiable chronology of prior roles and delivered outcomes; dates are left approximate or unknown where not disclosed.

• The reviewed sources do not identify a degree or independently verifiable professional credential for this individual.