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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Dan Brearley

Former Chief Operating Officer

Career chronology

Education and qualifications

Civil engineering qualification

As reported 4 February 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

Felix Gold reports Brearley holds Civil Engineering qualifications from the University of Southern Queensland. The university record was not independently checked.

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

Relevance: Relevant to project delivery and construction responsibilities.

Senior Executive Appointments (Senior Executive Appointments, p. 1)

Industrial safety

Chalice reported one FY26 high-potential near miss

FY2026; COO tenure through 19 December 2025 · issuer reported · low materiality

Chalice reported zero fatalities and zero lost-time injuries during FY26 but one high-potential bushfire near the Gonneville site. Brearley’s KMP tenure ended in December 2025 during FY26; no source links him to the incident or its cause.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. He held a project-executive role during part of FY26 but is not attributed responsibility for the reported fire.

Relevance: Relevant to role-period safety oversight, with no individual conduct established.

Annual Report 2026 (Health and Safety, pp. 43–44; KMP cessation, p. 65)

Suitability for the current role

Project-delivery background; Chalice tenure ended in December 2025

March–December 2025 at Chalice; new role from February 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Chalice appointed Brearley COO effective 3 March 2025 to lead Gonneville studies and development. Its 2026 annual report says he ceased KMP on 19 December 2025. Felix Gold’s 4 February 2026 ASX release states he commenced as VP Development & Operations on 16 February 2026, reports his prior Evolution, Barrick and Newcrest project work, and identifies civil-engineering qualifications from the University of Southern Queensland.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Appointment and cessation dates are directly documented; previous-project contributions are issuer-attributed by Chalice and Felix Gold. No cause for his Chalice departure is stated in the reviewed reports.

Relevance: Project construction and delivery experience is relevant, but the brief Chalice tenure means major Gonneville outcomes cannot be attributed to him.

Chalice Appoints Dan Brearley as Chief Operating Officer (Appointment announcement, p. 1); Annual Report 2026 (Directors’ Report, p. 65; KMP chronology p. 60); Senior Executive Appointments (Senior Executive Appointments, pp. 1–2)

Evidence gaps

  • No reason for the 19 December 2025 cessation was established in the annual report reviewed.

  • Dates for Evolution, Barrick and Newcrest roles and project-specific delivery benchmarks remain incomplete.

  • No targeted employer-specific legal, safety or environmental regulator records were reviewed for past projects.

  • No exhaustive court, regulator, sanctions, criminal-record or professional-register check was performed.