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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Todd Hannigan

Executive Chair

Career chronology

Education and qualifications

Issuer reports mining engineering and INSEAD MBA qualifications

Qualifications reported by 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

The annual report and issuer page report a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) with Honours from the University of Queensland and an MBA from INSEAD. Independent university confirmation was not reviewed.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Qualifications are reported by the issuer and are not independently authenticated here.

Relevance: Mining and management study are relevant to resource-company leadership.

Brazilian Rare Earths Limited Annual Report 2025 (Directors' Report, PDF p.29 / printed p.27); Company and leadership (leadership biography: education)

Contributions and company outcomes

Aston's Maules Creek project advanced through major development steps during Hannigan's CEO period

2010–2011 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Paringa's 2020 annual report says that while Hannigan was Aston Resources CEO in 2010–2011, the company advanced Maules Creek resource/reserve work, completed technical and design work for its definitive feasibility study, negotiated project stake sales and joint-venture agreements, secured port/rail access and advanced approvals. This is a retrospective issuer account of company milestones, not an independent assessment or proof of his individual contribution.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The annual report links his CEO tenure with the milestones but does not isolate his decisions or contribution.

Relevance: Relevant project-development experience for an executive chair; the record does not prove construction or production delivery during his tenure.

Paringa Resources Annual Report 2020 (Directors' Report, PDF p.2, Todd Hannigan biography)

IperionX reported commercial titanium production ramping during Hannigan's concurrent chair tenure

August 2024 commissioning through 31 December 2025; report dated 12 March 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

IperionX's March 2026 half-year report lists Hannigan as Executive Chairman and describes the company as a commercial U.S. producer. It reports that its Virginia furnace was commissioned, output had scaled from pilot to 125 metric tonnes per year and then to 200 tonnes per year capacity, with manufacturing systems still ramping. The production and capacity are issuer-reported and are not attributed to Hannigan personally.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. His chair role overlapped the disclosed period; the report does not show his individual operational responsibility.

Relevance: Relevant board-level exposure to scaling an early-stage critical-materials manufacturing business.

IperionX Interim Financial Report for the six months ended 31 December 2025 (Directors' Report, PDF pp.2 and 7; lines 24–42 and 159–164)

Governance and interests

Aston Coal 2 was convicted for failure to report two donations, including one made by Hannigan

March 2011 donations; conviction 8 November 2013 · documented · medium materiality

The NSW Land and Environment Court judgment identifies Aston Coal 2 as the corporate defendant and records its guilty pleas to two offences for failing to report reportable political donations by directors; one was Todd William Hannigan's donation. Government-hosted records give the total fine as A$20,000. The judgment does not prosecute Hannigan personally or establish that the donation itself was unlawful. The judgment describes him as a director and then CFO at the time, while a later Paringa annual report summarizes his Aston CEO tenure as 2010–2011; that contemporaneous role discrepancy remains unresolved.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. His donation is directly named; the reporting failure and conviction were corporate. The reviewed record does not attribute the company's reporting failure to him personally.

Relevance: A relevant governance disclosure issue from a prior company, with personal responsibility limited to the documented donation and role conflict.

Director-General v Aston Coal 2 Pty Ltd [2013] NSWLEC 188 (paragraph 1 and sentencing outcome); LEX-74743: environmental history records supplied for Maules Creek (Document 3A, pp.11–12 of the released attachment); Paringa Resources Annual Report 2020 (Directors' Report, PDF p.2)

Suitability for the current role

Resources executive and chair experience is relevant to BRE's funding and project oversight needs

Current role at 1 November 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality

Analyst inference: the reported resources-sector, private-capital and board experience is relevant to an executive-chair role overseeing exploration, development studies and financing. Available records do not establish his personal causal contribution to BRE's projects.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. A fit assessment, not a conclusion about personal integrity or operating accountability.

Relevance: Relevant to board and capital oversight at a large, pre-production minerals company.

Company and leadership (leadership biography); Brazilian Rare Earths Limited Annual Report 2025 (Directors' Report, PDF p.29 / printed p.27)

Evidence gaps

  • Aston's retrospective annual report calls Hannigan CEO in 2010–2011, while the court record calls him CFO when the March 2011 donation was made; the exact title/transition date is unresolved.

  • The donation case was a prosecution of Aston Coal 2, not a personal prosecution of Hannigan. The government-hosted attachment and reproduced judgment were reviewed; the official court-hosted judgment was not accessible in this run.

  • IperionX production figures and corporate safety/environment reporting are issuer-reported; no independent operating-site audit or person-specific outcome attribution was reviewed.

  • Start and end dates for most prior appointments are not publicly established in the cited sources; prior-employer outcomes outside the sources cited were not fully reconstructed.

  • Open-web searches are not an exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation, regulator, reference or credential check.