Alex Dorsch

Career chronology

• Appointed 13 November 2018; current through cutoff: Chalice Mining Limited — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Annual Report 2026 (Our Leadership, p. 6)

• Prior to Chalice; exact dates not disclosed: McKinsey & Company — Specialist Consultant. Annual Report 2026 (Our Leadership, p. 6)

• Before Chalice; exact employers, titles and dates not disclosed: BHP and upstream oil and gas — Engineering roles; more than six years in upstream oil and gas. Annual Report 2026 (Our Leadership, p. 6)

Education and qualifications

Engineering and finance qualifications

As reported in 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Chalice reports Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Finance qualifications. Independent university credential verification was not completed.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. No personal responsibility question applies.

Relevance: Technical and finance education is pertinent to the CEO role; credentials are issuer-reported rather than independently verified.

Annual Report 2026 (Our Leadership, p. 6)

Industrial safety

FY26 safety outcomes included one high-potential near miss

FY2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

The issuer reported zero fatalities and zero LTIFR in FY26, but one high-potential incident: a bushfire believed to have been deliberately lit near the Gonneville site burned part of company-owned farmland. No workers were present, damage was minimal, and the fire did not spread beyond company land. The report assigns no cause or responsibility to Dorsch.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. As CEO during the reporting period, Dorsch held executive oversight, but the report does not connect him personally to the fire or any control failure.

Relevance: Relevant safety oversight evidence; reported injury outcomes were positive while the high-potential event warrants acknowledgment.

Annual Report 2026 (Health and Safety, pp. 43–44)

Governance and interests

ABC apologized for a right-of-reply failure in Traditional Owner coverage

25 October–9 December 2022 · documented · medium materiality

On 9 December 2022, the ABC acknowledged it failed to give Chalice a valid right of reply to certain claims in an article about Traditional Owner concerns and apologized to Chalice and CEO Alex Dorsch. The correction recited Chalice’s statement that it had an extensive Traditional Owner engagement program. The apology corrects the ABC’s process; it does not resolve the underlying community concerns or establish misconduct by Dorsch.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Dorsch was CEO and is named as an apology recipient; no personal wrongdoing or determination on the underlying heritage concerns is established.

Relevance: Relevant to social licence and stakeholder oversight for a CEO advancing a proposed mine; the correction narrows the reliability of the original media account but is not an independent finding about project performance.

Apology to Chalice Mining and Mr Alex Dorsch (ABC correction, lines 138–140); Annual Report 2026 (Community and stakeholder engagement, pp. 19–20)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant executive experience and a major discovery-to-study record

2018–2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Chalice reports Dorsch led the company from a junior explorer through the Gonneville discovery, feasibility and permitting stages, and participated in raising more than A$350 million. The company reports a completed PFS and a 17 Moz 3E resource, while construction remains unapproved and first production has not occurred. These are issuer-attributed management contributions and project milestones, not proof of personal causation or realized mine economics.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The issuer directly attributes leadership and a role in fundraising to Dorsch; geological discovery was delivered by Chalice geologists and is not assigned solely to him.

Relevance: Relevant CEO-stage experience in discovery, capital raising and pre-development; delivery risk remains because the asset is not producing and approvals/FID remain outstanding.

Annual Report 2026 (Our Leadership, p. 6; Company Overview and Gonneville project status, pp. 8–14)

Evidence gaps

• Exact dates and delivered outcomes for BHP, McKinsey and upstream oil and gas roles are not established in the sources reviewed.

• University confirmation of qualifications and comprehensive professional membership or sanctions checks were not completed.

• No full court, ASIC, sanctions, criminal-record, or person-specific regulator-register check was performed.

• The ABC apology corrected a right-of-reply failure but does not resolve the underlying Traditional Owner concerns; later independent consultation evidence was not independently assessed.

• No benchmarked shareholder-return attribution or independent audit of the issuer’s project and fundraising contribution claims was completed.