Mark Strizek

Career chronology

• Appointed 1 Feb 2024; employment contract commenced 1 Jun 2024: Aurum Resources Limited — Executive Director. Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026 (Remuneration Report contractual arrangements)

• Director since July 2017; executive director from Jan 2020; stepped down in March 2023: Tietto Minerals Limited — Executive Director / Non-Executive Director. Tietto has zero gold hedging and has delivered its first gold pour at Abujar (Appointment release and 20 Mar 2023 announcement re Abujar first gold and departure)

• Issuer states he served 2011–2019 and left following sale of Watershed for A$15m: Vital Metals Limited — Managing Director. Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026 (Directors’ Report / 2019 Tietto appointment release cites prior role and sale)

• Nearly 30 years’ reported cross-commodity experience; complete chronology and degree details not established: Resources industry — Geologist / exploration, feasibility and development executive. Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026 (Directors’ Report biography; limitations noted)

Education and qualifications

Qualifications and credential evidence

Qualifications disclosed by cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality

The issuer reports a long geology career, but the reviewed issuer disclosures do not identify a degree or qualification; a social profile indexed ECU education without credential details and was not treated as verification.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer disclosures state the listed credentials; no independent verification with universities/professional bodies was completed.

Relevance: Qualifications support stated technical/governance fit, subject to credential verification gaps.

Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026 (Directors’ Report, p. 7; no degree listed; credential gap)

Contributions and company outcomes

Selected delivery record

Historic employer milestones and AUE progress to 30 Sep 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

At Tietto, Strizek held board/executive roles as Abujar expanded from exploration through construction to first gold, and a 2019 appointment release credited him with assisting technical development/marketing of the resource. At Aurum his board tenure overlaps the 2026 Boundiali resource/PFS milestones.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The dated issuer source ties him to Tietto project stewardship, but project-wide outcomes are not fully attributable to him; Aurum’s planned mine is not yet operating.

Relevance: Relevant to the executive’s current remit; employer and team results do not prove sole personal causation.

Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026 (Directors’ Report, biography; Tietto development-to-production background); Tietto has zero gold hedging and has delivered its first gold pour at Abujar (20 Mar 2023 release, first gold and Strizek’s departure after Abujar construction)

Governance and interests

Unresolved ASX continuous-disclosure query

30 Sep–7 Oct 2026 · documented · high materiality

As an executive director, Strizek held a board role during AUE’s 30 September 2026 cleansing notice and subsequent ASX aware query. AUE acknowledged the related assay information was price-sensitive and defended timing; no ASX conclusion or personal decision attribution was found.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The query was addressed to the company; the director/company-secretary roles overlap with governance and disclosure oversight, but the correspondence does not connect any person to a deliberate or negligent breach.

Relevance: Material to listed-company disclosure controls and investor trust; remains unresolved at cutoff.

Aurum Resources Limited (AUE): Cleansing Notice – Aware Query (company response and ASX letter) (Company response dated 7 Oct 2026 and embedded ASX query dated 2 Oct 2026, pp. 1–6)

Suitability for the current role

Role fit and evidence limits

Current role and career to cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

Long geological, project-development and director experience is relevant to oversight of resource growth and a feasibility-stage gold mine; degree, role-by-role dates and individual capital-allocation outcomes remain thin.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is an evidence-based role-fit judgment, not an outcome attribution.

Relevance: Experience fits the company's development/exploration stage and role as described; individual delivery in current role remains to be demonstrated.

Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026 (Directors’ Report, p. 7; role and career experience, external directorships, and appointment/contract dates)

Evidence gaps

• No exhaustive criminal, sanctions, court, insolvency, regulator, safety or environmental database screening was completed; documented open-web searches do not establish clearance.

• The reviewed source set did not independently verify educational credentials or give a complete dated employer chronology.