Full background report

Nicky Martin

Chief Financial Officer

Career chronology

Joined July 2024; CFO through FY2026: Brightstar Resources Limited — Chief Financial Officer. Brightstar Diggers and Dealers Presentation, 5 August 2025 (Appendix 1, p.27; joined Brightstar July 2024); Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Remuneration report, FY2026 KMP and contract arrangements)
Previously; exact dates not stated: Pilbara Minerals Limited — Head of Finance. Brightstar Diggers and Dealers Presentation, 5 August 2025 (Appendix 1, p.27)

Contributions and company outcomes

FY2026 finance leadership overlapped with audited capital and operating disclosures

FY2026 ended 30 June 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

The FY2026 audited annual report identifies Martin as CFO for the full year and documents the company’s production, A$193m equity raise, US$120m senior secured bond, and Goldfields construction decision. These are company outcomes during her tenure; no source reviewed assigns her individual responsibility for the transactions or results.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. CFO role overlapped the reporting period, but individual transaction or operating contributions are not separately identified.

Relevance: Provides issuer-level evidence of finance function context, not a personal CFO performance measure.

Brightstar Resources 2026 Annual Report (Corporate directory and operating highlights, lines 308–315)

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 · low materiality

Brightstar reports prior Head of Finance experience at Pilbara Minerals and experience building finance teams at emerging producers. The reviewed sources do not establish academic or professional qualifications, exact prior dates, or measurable finance outcomes.

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.