Matt Crowe

Career chronology

• Current role at cutoff; start date not established in the reviewed records: Gorilla Gold Mines — Exploration Manager. Annual Report 2025 and leadership presentation (Issuer management page, Matt Crowe entry)

• Prior role; exact dates not stated: BHP — Principal Geologist. Directors & Management (Issuer Directors & Management page, Matt Crowe biography)

• Prior role; exact dates not stated: Dreadnought Resources — Chief Operating Officer / Exploration Manager. Directors & Management (Issuer Directors & Management page, Matt Crowe biography)

Contributions and company outcomes

Gorilla reported resource and exploration growth in 2025

2025; reported November 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

The November 2025 issuer presentation reported approximately 650 koz of resources added across Western Australian projects in 2025, three high-grade discoveries at Comet Vale, a maiden Vivien resource and a fourfold Mulwarrie resource increase. Its later February 2026 presentation reported a 1.5 Moz Western Australian resource base, while planned drilling remained prospective. These are company-reported exploration milestones, not production, profitability or individual executive performance.

Attribution: Responsibility unresolved. Tenure overlap and each person’s individual contribution are not established by the presentation; it describes company outcomes only.

Relevance: Provides current execution context for the team.

Investor Presentation (pp.6–7; exploration and resource milestones); Directors & Management (career profile / current role)

Suitability for the current role

Relevance of current Exploration Manager role

Current at 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The issuer identifies Matt Crowe as Exploration Manager. This role is relevant to the company's current mining stage and needs; this is an analyst role-fit inference based on the disclosed title and company profile, not evidence of past personal performance. The reviewed sources do not establish a complete prior-employer chronology, independently verified credentials or full concurrent-interest list.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit judgment, not an outcome or misconduct finding.

Relevance: Assesses alignment of disclosed responsibilities with current company needs.

Annual Report 2025 and leadership presentation (Issuer management page, Matt Crowe entry)

Exploration leadership and discovery record

Prior roles; 2023 award · analyst inference · medium materiality

Gorilla describes Crowe as an exploration geologist with 20 years’ experience across major and junior WA resource companies, including Principal Geologist at BHP and COO/Exploration Manager at Dreadnought Resources. It says he led greenfields and brownfields teams involved in copper, gold, nickel, iron ore, rare earth and niobium discoveries, and was a co-recipient of AMEC’s 2023 Prospector Award for the Yin rare earth discovery. Employer attribution and award are issuer-reported; exact tenure dates and his individual contribution to each discovery remain unspecified.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. Award and discovery claims are team-level; source does not establish sole individual causation.

Relevance: Exploration leadership and multi-commodity discovery experience fit the exploration manager role.

Directors & Management (Issuer Directors & Management page, Matt Crowe biography)

Evidence gaps

• Issuer biographies supply abbreviated role histories, not full dated chronologies; prior-employer roles and individual accountability for employer outcomes are incompletely documented.

• Education and professional credentials are issuer-reported and were not independently checked where no primary credential record was found.

• Open-web adverse searches were focused and identity-aware but did not comprehensively review regulator, court, safety or environment records at every prior employer; no clearance conclusion is implied.