Sam Johnstone

Career chronology

• Senior leadership disclosure in 2020 and 2025 annual reports; current official profile confirms export marketing/logistics remit; start date not published: Bathurst Resources Limited — General Manager, Marketing and Logistics; current title General Manager, Export Marketing & Logistics. Our People (Our People, lines 108–113); Annual Report 2025 (Senior leadership, p. 22, lines 386–387)

• Earlier or concurrent sector experience; prior employers and dates not stated: New Zealand coal sector — Domestic/international coal marketing and customer-contract management. Our People (Our People, lines 108–113)

Education and qualifications

Postgraduate Master of Science in Geography

Current issuer biography reviewed 10 Oct 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Bathurst reports that Johnstone holds a postgraduate Master of Science majoring in Geography. Institution and award date are not specified in the reviewed biography.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The education and professional-status information is reported by the issuer; independent credential verification was not performed.

Relevance: Credentials and professional training provide evidence of subject-matter preparation for the executive’s current function.

Our People (Our People, lines 108–113)

Contributions and company outcomes

FY26 coal sales recovered in export segment

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Bathurst reported FY26 export sales of 1.145Mt, with export production of 1.036Mt, versus 0.956Mt production in FY25. Johnstone’s remit includes export and domestic marketing/logistics and customer contracts, but the company does not isolate his actions or share of the result.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Issuer disclosure establishes role alignment, not an individual contribution or sole cause.

Relevance: Export volume, contracts and logistics are directly relevant to his current remit.

30 June 2026 Results Announcement (p. 2, export production, sales and financial results); Our People (Our People, lines 108–113)

Business failures and setbacks

Rail-tunnel disruption reduced FY25 export sales capacity

FY2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Bathurst’s FY2025 CEO report says a Stockton rail-tunnel failure closed the export route for six months; road freight enabled continued exports but raised costs and constrained coal volumes. This overlapped Johnstone’s marketing/logistics remit, but the infrastructure failure was not attributed to him.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Role overlap only; the company attributed the disruption to tunnel failure and did not identify an individual decision or failure.

Relevance: Export logistics and customer commitments fall within his current functional remit.

Annual Report 2025 (CEO report, p. 9–10, lines 127–134); Our People (Our People, lines 108–113)

Suitability for the current role

General Manager, Export Marketing & Logistics is supported by relevant functional experience

Current role as at 10 October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The current issuer profile says Johnstone manages domestic/export customer contracts and has marketing experience with New Zealand coal; the FY2025 report lists the Marketing and Logistics role. This is directly relevant to customer/offtake and export logistics. The current title adds “Export,” a wording refinement not a documented role change.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is an analyst assessment of role fit, based on issuer-reported career facts; it is not an independent performance evaluation.

Relevance: Role fit is relevant to the executive team’s ability to run operating mines, manage growth or deliver company functions.

Our People (Our People, lines 108–113); Annual Report 2025 (Senior leadership, p. 22, lines 386–387)

Evidence gaps

• Prior employers, exact tenure, institution/award date for the MSc and individual marketing/logistics outcomes are not documented in the reviewed sources.

• FY25 and FY26 sales/logistics metrics are company or segment outcomes; the sources do not isolate Johnstone’s contribution from infrastructure, price or broader operating factors.

• No exhaustive court, regulator, criminal, sanctions, safety/environment or professional-disciplinary search was completed.