Andrew Rich

Career chronology

• Appointed 31 May 2024: Brightstar Resources Limited — Executive Director – Operations. Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Directors’ report, Executive Director – Operations biography)

• Before Brightstar; exact dates not disclosed: Linden Gold Alliance Limited — Managing Director; led mining and corporate functions. Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Directors’ report, Executive Director – Operations biography)

• Led three underground projects from construction into production; individual project dates are not specified: Westgold Resources; Ramelius Resources; Linden Gold Alliance — Mining engineer / underground project leadership. Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Directors’ report, Executive Director – Operations biography)

Contributions and company outcomes

Brightstar delivered gold sales and committed to Goldfields construction during FY2026

FY2026 ended 30 June 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Brightstar’s FY2026 annual report reports 24koz gold recovered under its ore-purchase agreement, A$138m gross sales proceeds, no lost-time injuries, and a May 2026 final investment decision with full-scale construction of the Laverton plant underway. Rovira was Managing Director throughout FY2026 and Rich was Executive Director – Operations from May 2024. These are company outcomes and role overlap only; the source does not isolate either executive’s causal contribution. The company also reported FY26 operating costs above its stated $3,800/oz STI threshold and an absolute TSR hurdle not met.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Both held senior roles overlapping the reporting period; no personal attribution to the production, financing, construction or cost outcomes is demonstrated by the annual report.

Relevance: Relevant evidence of organizational delivery for senior operating leadership, balanced by the missed cost and TSR measures; forward production remains targeted, not delivered.

Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Chair’s letter and Review of Operations, annual-report lines 157–165 and 308–324); Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Audited remuneration report, STI outcomes and company KPIs, lines 972–1004)

Suitability for the current role

Role-relevant experience is documented; delivery attribution remains limited

Career through 2026-10-09; role status assessed at evidence cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

Mining engineering degree; 15+ years in mining engineering and underground management, and three underground projects led from construction into production at Westgold, Ramelius and Linden. These are relevant operating credentials, though the issuer does not quantify his personal contribution or project benchmarks.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Career and qualifications are biographical facts reported by the issuer or employer; individual contribution to aggregate company outcomes is only attributed where a source explicitly links it.

Relevance: The experience is relevant to the current or most recent stated role, subject to the evidence and verification limits described.

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Evidence gaps

• Career chronology, prior positions, dates, qualifications and memberships are substantially incomplete unless specifically noted in cited evidence.

• No company-outcome attribution or benchmark-adjusted shareholder-return analysis was performed for this executive.

• Person-specific fraud, litigation, sanctions, safety, environmental and governance searches were not performed; no clearance or negative finding is implied.

• Searches of criminal, court, regulator and professional registers were not exhaustive or, for this pass, generally performed.