Caigen Wang

Career chronology

• Appointed 21 Dec 2023; employment contract commenced 29 Jan 2024: Aurum Resources Limited — Managing Director. Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026 (Directors’ Report/Remuneration Report; appointment versus contract commencement)

• Founded in 2010; departed the MD role in May 2023: Tietto Minerals Limited — Founder and Managing Director. Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026 (Directors’ Report biography; Annual Report 2020 corporate directory / chair’s message)

• Earlier career in Australia, Canada and China; seven years China University of Mining and Technology and six years WASM/University of Alberta as reported: Mining engineering and academia — Mining engineer; lecturer/associate professor and research fellow/associate. Annual Report for year ended 30 June 2026 (Directors’ Report biography, education and career)

Education and qualifications

Qualifications and credential evidence

Qualifications disclosed by cutoff · issuer reported · low materiality

Dr Wang holds bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees in Mining Engineering and is reported as a Fellow of AusIMM; issuer disclosure was not independently confirmed with the universities or professional body.

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; qualifications)

Contributions and company outcomes

Selected delivery record

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

At Tietto, Wang founded and led an explorer through ASX listing, a reported 3.8Moz Abujar discovery, construction and commercial production; a March 2023 dated release says first gold was delivered. AUE’s Boundiali resource grew to 3.22Moz and the June 2026 PFS reported a 1.21Moz probable reserve, but production remains a target, not delivered.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Tietto leadership period overlapped the discovery-to-mine milestones; AUE MD role overlaps the resource/PFS approvals and project decisions, but no personal credit for the full team result is established.

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

On 30 September 2026, AUE issued a cleansing notice relating to 95,454,580 placement shares; assay information later released on 1 October was acknowledged by AUE as price-sensitive. The 7 October response said assessment and interpretation completed after the notice and defended validity. ASX correspondence asked questions but is not a finding of breach.

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

Mining-engineering education, 25 years’ reported mining/exploration experience and prior founder-led gold project build are highly relevant to an Ivorian gold developer; execution at Aurum has not yet been proven through construction/production.

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, pp. 6–7 (lines 211–220 in text); director biography, education and dated prior appointments)

Evidence gaps

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