Full background report
Nathan Stoitis
General Manager, Processing and Metallurgy
Career chronology
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2025–cutoff; exact first day unclear: Develop Global — General Manager, Processing and Metallurgy. Develop senior resources appointments (p.1)
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Before Develop; exact dates unknown: Extreme Metallurgy — Director and Principal Metallurgist. Develop senior resources appointments (pp.1–2)
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From September 2024: Rox Resources — Non-executive director. Rox Resources 2026 annual report (directors report)
Education and qualifications
Reported metallurgical engineering qualification
2025–2026 · issuer reported · low materiality
Develop reports a minerals engineering degree from the WA School of Mines and AusIMM fellowship; Rox reports a BEng. Neither issuer statement is an independent institutional verification.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Qualifications are issuer-reported.
Relevance: Relevant technical expertise.
Develop senior resources appointments (pp.1–2); Rox Resources 2026 annual report (Nathan Stoitis biography)
Governance and interests
Concurrent Rox board seat and nominee status
2024–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality
Rox’s 2026 annual report identifies Stoitis as a director and says he was not independent because he was a nominee for Hawke’s Point. Develop also reports his technical executive role.
Attribution: Individual involvement documented. These are disclosed roles and classifications, not an allegation of misconduct.
Relevance: Concurrent commitments and possible conflicts merit transparent oversight.
Rox Resources 2026 annual report (corporate governance statement and directors report); Develop senior resources appointments (pp.1–2)
Suitability for the current role
Processing and consulting experience
2025–2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality
The issuer reports a history of metallurgical consulting, including mine acquisitions and processing work. The evidence supports relevant experience but does not quantify his personal contribution to Woodlawn commissioning.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Inference from disclosed experience; individual operating outcome unquantified.
Relevance: Relevant to processing and project commissioning.
Develop senior resources appointments (pp.1–2); Rox Resources 2026 annual report (Nathan Stoitis biography)
Evidence gaps
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Rox says the Develop role began in July 2025; the October 2025 Develop appointment announcement does not specify the start date.
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Independent degree and fellowship confirmation unavailable.
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Specific personal contributions to individual projects not independently quantified.
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Broad name-and-employer searches were reused across adverse topics; dedicated individual checks across each regulator, court and past employer were not completed.