Benjamin Smith

Career chronology

• Current at 30 September 2026; initial appointment date not stated: Brightstar Resources Limited — Company Secretary. Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Corporate directory and company secretary biography)

• Three years; dates not stated: BHP Nickel West — Finance/accounting professional. Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Company secretary biography)

• Five years; dates not stated: ASX-listed company audit practice — Auditor. Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Company secretary biography)

• More recently as described in the FY2026 annual report; exact dates not stated: Rubix Resources Limited; Estrella Resources Limited — Company Secretary. Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Company secretary biography)

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

The FY2026 annual report describes him as a Chartered Secretary and Chartered Accountant, with three years at BHP Nickel West, five years auditing ASX-listed companies, and company-secretarial roles at Rubix and Estrella. This background directly matches listed-company finance and secretarial responsibilities; certificates and dates were not independently checked.

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.

Corporate Directory (Current corporate directory and management role listing)

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.