David Geraghty

Career chronology

• since 2025: Forrestania Resources Limited — Executive Chairman. Half Yearly Report and Accounts (Corporate directory or key management personnel disclosure)

• early career: Rio Tinto — Orebody evaluation. Corporate Profile (Issuer/corporate profile identifies early Rio Tinto career in orebody evaluation.)

• 21 years: Mineral Resources Ltd — Senior management, mining/services. Corporate Profile (Issuer profile: 21 years, project development and operational growth; metallurgical engineer.)

Contributions and company outcomes

Edna May acquisition completed; restart remained planned

September–October 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Forrestania’s September-quarter report says the Edna May acquisition and approximately A$310 million institutional raising were completed in the quarter. It described restart in the December quarter and Lake Johnston production in early 2027 as targets, not completed operating output.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Geraghty was executive chair; source does not quantify individual contribution.

Relevance: Completed transaction and financing expand the operational portfolio, while start-up delivery remains to be demonstrated.

September 2026 quarterly activities and Appendix 5B (Page 1 highlights and page 2 Edna May operations)

Governance and interests

Takeovers Panel found unacceptable circumstances in Zenith takeover

April–October 2026 · documented · high materiality

On 27 August 2026 the Panel declared unacceptable circumstances in Zenith’s affairs. It found Forrestania delayed notice of its substantial holding, omitted material Edna May sale-process information from its bidder statement, and used deal terms capable of influencing Zenith’s board. It ordered further disclosure, restricted certain voting rights and ordered costs; on 28 September a review Panel affirmed the declaration and orders after accepting further-disclosure undertakings. Geraghty signed Forrestania’s undertaking on the company’s behalf. A separate 23 October application about Zenith’s response to another proposal was declined; that later decision did not overturn the earlier declaration.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The company was the bidder under Geraghty’s executive chairmanship. The Panel findings concern company conduct; personal responsibility for each act is not determined. The undertaking bears his signature for Forrestania.

Relevance: Material governance and execution evidence for a board leading a large acquisition.

Zenith Minerals Limited 01 & 02 — declaration (Declaration paragraphs 18–28, 42–46); Zenith Minerals Limited 01 & 02 — orders (Orders 1–20); Zenith Minerals Limited 03R & 04R — review and undertakings (Review outcome and Annexure A signed undertaking); Zenith Minerals Limited 05 — Panel declines further application (23 October decision on a distinct application)

Suitability for the current role

Limited public evidence for role fit

since 2025 · analyst inference · low materiality

The issuer identifies David Geraghty as Executive Chairman. The cited source establishes the disclosed role and any stated appointment date. This source alone does not establish attributable prior-employer outcomes, verified credentials or independently benchmarked delivery. This is an evidence limitation, not an adverse personal finding.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. No personal outcome responsibility is inferred from the title alone.

Relevance: The role is relevant to the company’s current leadership assessment; fuller role-fit comparison requires verified chronology and outcome evidence.

Half Yearly Report and Accounts (Corporate directory, key management personnel or appointment disclosure; role and date)

Evidence gaps

• Prior-employer chronology and qualifications are based mainly on issuer disclosures; independent employment and credential verification was not available in the reviewed public record.

• Company-level outcomes are not attributed personally without a source connecting the executive to the action or result.

• The Takeovers Panel ruling concerns corporate disclosures and the bid; it does not determine Geraghty personally breached the law or personally caused each matter.

• Issuer records use different dates for the executive transition in 2025; the exact effective date is not reconciled.