Full background report
Daniel Hastings
Chief Executive Officer
Career chronology
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From 11 August 2025: GBM Resources — CEO. Appointment of Daniel Hastings as CEO (pp. 1–2)
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Dates not disclosed: Newcrest Mining — Studies roles. Appointment of Daniel Hastings as CEO (p. 1)
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Dates not independently established: Ok Tedi / Simberi — Exploration and technical work. Appointment of Daniel Hastings as CEO (p. 1)
Personal achievements
Reported discovery and technical career
Before 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality
GBM credits Hastings with leading a team’s discovery and drill-out of more than 5Moz gold equivalent near Ok Tedi and with technical roles at Newcrest and Simberi. The description is issuer reported; individual attribution and dates have not been independently quantified.
Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Issuer explicitly credits him but detailed contemporaneous independent evidence was not established.
Relevance: Potentially relevant to exploration and studies.
Appointment of Daniel Hastings as CEO (p. 1)
Contributions and company outcomes
Drilling and cash during CEO tenure
Quarter ended September 2026 · documented · medium materiality
The September 2026 report recorded exploration drilling at Twin Hills and Yandan, A$23.302m cash and approximately 2.9 quarters of funding at that quarter’s outflow rate. Exploration outcomes and funding runway are not a production or mine-development achievement.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. CEO role overlaps; the results reflect the company and team, not a quantified personal contribution.
Relevance: Shows current funding and execution context.
September 2026 quarterly report and Appendix 5B (pp. 2, 20–21)
Environmental record
Legacy Yandan environmental obligations
2021–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality
The 2021 Yandan order was reported completed in FY2022, before the CEO appointment; GBM’s FY2026 annual report disclosed increased Yandan estimated rehabilitation costs.
Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The original order predates tenure. No personal responsibility is established.
Relevance: Legacy site obligations remain relevant to operating oversight.
Annual report 2022 (printed pp. 51–52); Annual report for year ended 30 June 2026 (note 29)
Evidence gaps
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Original source files for the claimed discovery and the precise project tenure were not independently obtained.
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Degrees and memberships were not independently verified.