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2026-11-06
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Galan Lithium Limited

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People, delivery and responsibility

Management background checks

Evidence through 2026-10-09

Research assessment

Executive team

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The 2026 issuer report records Galan’s completion and commissioning of HMW Phase 1 and first processed lithium chloride, while sales and ramp-up remained ahead. Vargas’s long tenure and partial career credentials, Dinsdale’s finance profile, Robbins’s resignation and Garvey’s appointment/credentials are better documented. A Catamarca court injunction requires cumulative basin-impact work and pauses new Los Patos/Salar del Hombre Muerto permits; Galan says existing HMW Phase 1 permits were unaffected and it does not plan to use Los Patos water. The court record does not establish personal misconduct or a claim against Galan in the later information-access proceeding. Wider person-specific adverse searches remain incomplete.

Decision-relevant facts

Material summary

Individual involvement and employer context shown separately

Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega

Managing Director

Current
Full background report for Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega
Role FitAnalyst Inference · Medium materiality

Relevance of current Managing Director role

The issuer identifies Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega as Managing Director. 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.

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

Annual Report 30 June 2025 · Issuer management page, Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega entry
Company SuccessIssuer Reported · Medium materiality

Galan Lithium reported project and corporate progress

Galan’s FY2026 report now records completed HMW Phase 1 construction, commissioning of the nanofiltration plant and first processed lithium chloride during the financial year. Management remained focused on ramp-up toward nameplate rates and first sales; no commercial sales or steady-state production are established in this finding. The milestone occurred during the MD’s tenure but is not personally attributed to him.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · The role may overlap the period, but the issuer report does not assign sole or causal credit to this executive.

Annual Report 2026 · printed p. 4, Principal Activities and FY2026 operating review
Company SuccessIssuer Reported · High materiality

Galan completed HMW Phase 1 construction and produced first processed lithium chloride

Galan’s FY2026 annual report says Phase 1 construction was completed, the nanofiltration plant commissioned, and first processed lithium chloride produced during the year. The report describes a transition to producer status but says the focus remains ramp-up and first product sales; commercial sales and steady-state production were not established in the reviewed report. This is a company outcome during Vargas’s long CEO tenure, not solely attributable to him.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · Vargas was Managing Director throughout the year; the annual report does not allocate sole responsibility for construction, commissioning or production.

Annual Report 2026 · printed p. 4, Principal Activities; annual report lines 347–354
EnvironmentDocumented · High materiality

Catamarca court ordered cumulative-impact assessment and paused new basin permits

On 13 March 2024 the Catamarca Supreme Court granted partial interim relief in a community environmental action, ordering a cumulative and integral lithium-mining impact study for the Río Los Patos–Salar del Hombre Muerto basin, open information and participation, and a pause on new permits/authorizations for works or activities in that area until completion. The proceeding addressed aggregate basin impacts and the Province; it did not adjudicate personal misconduct or find Galan responsible for environmental harm. Galan stated on 18 March 2024 that its already-granted HMW Phase 1 permits/EIAs were unaffected and that it did not plan to source water from Los Patos, so Phase 2 was not expected to be affected. A September 2025 court decision on environmental-record access again cited the injunction and identified Galan/Candelas-related permits in an administrative records dispute against the provincial ministry; that proceeding did not name Galan as respondent.

Role overlaps event; causation unproven · The order ran against provincial ministries across cumulative basin development; the record creates project-permitting and information-access context during Vargas’s tenure, not a personal fault finding. The company rebuttal addresses expected permit effect but is not a court finding.

Sentencia Interlocutoria No. 8, Corte 054/2022, Guitián v. Poder Ejecutivo Nacional y otro · Sentencia Interlocutoria No. 8, operative clauses at pp. 28–29 and 45–46
Galan’s HMW Project Phase 1 & 2 Unaffected by Provincial Court Ruling · pp. 1–2, effect on Phase 1 and Phase 2 water sourcing
Sentencia Corte No. 041/2025 – environmental information access · paragraphs 50–82; paras. 59 and 64–76 identify the records/injunction
Evidence gaps · 2
  • A complete dated career chronology, verified education/professional membership and full concurrent-interest record were not established.
  • Person-specific enforcement, litigation, safety, environmental, legal and governance searches across material former employers remain uncompleted; no clearance conclusion is implied.

Full background report

Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega

Managing Director

Career chronology

  • Current role at cutoff; start date not established in the reviewed records: Galan Lithium — Managing Director. Annual Report 30 June 2025 (Issuer management page, Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega entry)

  • Founded before Galan’s 2018 acquisition; precise date not given in company annual report: Blue Sky Lithium Pty Ltd — Founder; vendor of original Argentine assets to Galan. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 2, Managing Director biography)

  • Prior to or alongside Galan; dates and contract type not disclosed in reviewed profiles: BHP — Copper-project consultant. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 2, Managing Director biography)

  • Prior to or alongside Galan; dates and contract type not disclosed in reviewed profiles: Rio Tinto — Copper-project consultant. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 2, Managing Director biography)

  • Prior to or alongside Galan; dates and contract type not disclosed in reviewed profiles: Codelco — Copper-project consultant. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 2, Managing Director biography)

  • Prior to or alongside Galan; dates and contract type not disclosed in reviewed profiles: Foster Stockbroking — Lithium analyst / research analyst. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 2, Managing Director biography)

  • Prior to or alongside Galan; dates and contract type not disclosed in reviewed profiles: Australian mining / private-equity sector — Minerals analyst and private-equity experience. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 2, Managing Director biography)

  • Since mid-2018–cutoff: Galan Lithium — Managing Director. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 2, Managing Director biography)

  • Before Galan; dates not stated: Foster Stockbroking — Research analyst; lithium specialist. Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega speaker biography (Curriculum vitae)

  • Period not stated: Private copper business, Chile — Operator. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 2, Managing Director biography)

Education and qualifications

Mineral economics education at Curtin

As disclosed by 2018 · self reported · medium materiality

A 2018 conference biography identifies Vargas as a mineral economics specialist educated at Curtin University in Perth. Galan’s 2026 annual report describes his 24 years of sector experience but does not name a degree. The exact award, institution wording and graduation date have not been independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Education detail is from an event biography; no degree title or independent credential record was established.

Relevance: Relevant to the managing director’s commercial and mineral-industry responsibilities.

Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega speaker biography (Curriculum vitae); Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 2, Managing Director biography)

Contributions and company outcomes

Galan Lithium reported project and corporate progress

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Galan’s FY2026 report now records completed HMW Phase 1 construction, commissioning of the nanofiltration plant and first processed lithium chloride during the financial year. Management remained focused on ramp-up toward nameplate rates and first sales; no commercial sales or steady-state production are established in this finding. The milestone occurred during the MD’s tenure but is not personally attributed to him.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The role may overlap the period, but the issuer report does not assign sole or causal credit to this executive.

Relevance: Provides evidence of the operating or project context the leadership team must continue to execute.

Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 4, Principal Activities and FY2026 operating review)

Galan completed HMW Phase 1 construction and produced first processed lithium chloride

FY2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

Galan’s FY2026 annual report says Phase 1 construction was completed, the nanofiltration plant commissioned, and first processed lithium chloride produced during the year. The report describes a transition to producer status but says the focus remains ramp-up and first product sales; commercial sales and steady-state production were not established in the reviewed report. This is a company outcome during Vargas’s long CEO tenure, not solely attributable to him.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Vargas was Managing Director throughout the year; the annual report does not allocate sole responsibility for construction, commissioning or production.

Relevance: Material delivery evidence for the current MD, with ramp-up and sales still outstanding as of the disclosure.

Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 4, Principal Activities; annual report lines 347–354)

Environmental record

Catamarca court ordered cumulative-impact assessment and paused new basin permits

March 2024–September 2025 · documented · high materiality

On 13 March 2024 the Catamarca Supreme Court granted partial interim relief in a community environmental action, ordering a cumulative and integral lithium-mining impact study for the Río Los Patos–Salar del Hombre Muerto basin, open information and participation, and a pause on new permits/authorizations for works or activities in that area until completion. The proceeding addressed aggregate basin impacts and the Province; it did not adjudicate personal misconduct or find Galan responsible for environmental harm. Galan stated on 18 March 2024 that its already-granted HMW Phase 1 permits/EIAs were unaffected and that it did not plan to source water from Los Patos, so Phase 2 was not expected to be affected. A September 2025 court decision on environmental-record access again cited the injunction and identified Galan/Candelas-related permits in an administrative records dispute against the provincial ministry; that proceeding did not name Galan as respondent.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The order ran against provincial ministries across cumulative basin development; the record creates project-permitting and information-access context during Vargas’s tenure, not a personal fault finding. The company rebuttal addresses expected permit effect but is not a court finding.

Relevance: Material permitting, water and Indigenous-consultation context for Galan’s Argentina project and the Managing Director’s execution oversight.

Sentencia Interlocutoria No. 8, Corte 054/2022, Guitián v. Poder Ejecutivo Nacional y otro (Sentencia Interlocutoria No. 8, operative clauses at pp. 28–29 and 45–46); Galan’s HMW Project Phase 1 & 2 Unaffected by Provincial Court Ruling (pp. 1–2, effect on Phase 1 and Phase 2 water sourcing); Sentencia Corte No. 041/2025 – environmental information access (paragraphs 50–82; paras. 59 and 64–76 identify the records/injunction)

Suitability for the current role

Relevance of current Managing Director role

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

The issuer identifies Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega as Managing Director. 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 30 June 2025 (Issuer management page, Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega entry)

Evidence gaps

  • A complete dated career chronology, verified education/professional membership and full concurrent-interest record were not established.

  • Person-specific enforcement, litigation, safety, environmental, legal and governance searches across material former employers remain uncompleted; no clearance conclusion is implied.

Ross Dinsdale

CFO

Current
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Role FitAnalyst Inference · Medium materiality

Relevance of current CFO role

The issuer identifies Ross Dinsdale as CFO. 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.

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

Annual Report 30 June 2025 · Issuer management page, Ross Dinsdale entry
Evidence gaps · 2
  • A complete dated career chronology, verified education/professional membership and full concurrent-interest record were not established.
  • Person-specific enforcement, litigation, safety, environmental, legal and governance searches across material former employers remain uncompleted; no clearance conclusion is implied.

Full background report

Ross Dinsdale

CFO

Career chronology

  • Current role at cutoff; start date not established in the reviewed records: Galan Lithium — CFO. Annual Report 30 June 2025 (Issuer management page, Ross Dinsdale entry)

  • Dates not disclosed: Goldman Sachs — Capital-markets / equity-research role. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 4, CFO biography)

  • Dates not disclosed: Azure Capital — Investment-banking / corporate-finance role. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 4, CFO biography)

  • Before Galan; dates not disclosed in Galan report: Mallee Resources — Chief Financial Officer. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 4, CFO biography)

  • By 2020; exact start/end not fully established: Myanmar Metals — General Manager, Corporate. Ross Dinsdale professional profile (Professional biography, career summary)

Education and qualifications

Commerce, applied-finance and CFA qualifications

Current disclosure at cutoff · issuer reported · medium materiality

Galan’s 2026 annual report says Dinsdale is a CFA charterholder, holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance. Institution and qualification dates are not given in the annual report.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Qualifications are issuer-reported; independent CFA or degree verification was not established.

Relevance: Relevant finance credentials for the CFO role.

Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 4, CFO biography)

Suitability for the current role

Relevance of current CFO role

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

The issuer identifies Ross Dinsdale as CFO. 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 30 June 2025 (Issuer management page, Ross Dinsdale entry)

Evidence gaps

  • A complete dated career chronology, verified education/professional membership and full concurrent-interest record were not established.

  • Person-specific enforcement, litigation, safety, environmental, legal and governance searches across material former employers remain uncompleted; no clearance conclusion is implied.

Mike Robbins

Company Secretary (until 23 January 2026)

Departed
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Role FitAnalyst Inference · High materiality

Former Company Secretary role

The 2026 annual report records that Mike Robbins resigned as Company Secretary on 23 January 2026. The selected bundle’s 26 September roster is superseded on this point.

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

Annual Report 30 June 2026 · printed p.1, Corporate Directory
Evidence gaps · 2
  • The 2026 annual report resolves the Company Secretary departure date; full earlier career and independently verified credentials remain unestablished.
  • Person-specific enforcement, litigation, safety, environmental, legal and governance searches across material former employers remain uncompleted; no clearance conclusion is implied.

Full background report

Mike Robbins

Company Secretary (until 23 January 2026)

Career chronology

Suitability for the current role

Former Company Secretary role

Until 23 January 2026 · analyst inference · high materiality

The 2026 annual report records that Mike Robbins resigned as Company Secretary on 23 January 2026. The selected bundle’s 26 September roster is superseded on this point.

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 30 June 2026 (printed p.1, Corporate Directory)

Long resources-industry company-secretarial experience

Career before resignation 23 January 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Galan states Robbins had over 25 years of resource-industry experience across operational and corporate roles in Australia and overseas, including project and head-office management; it also identifies him as Cazaly Resources company secretary. Dates and named prior employers are not supplied.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Issuer describes experience but does not identify individual past projects or outcomes.

Relevance: Relevant company-secretarial and resource-industry experience; incomplete chronology limits assessment.

Directors and Management – Mike Robbins biography (Mike Robbins biography); Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 1, Company Secretary resignation)

Evidence gaps

  • The 2026 annual report resolves the Company Secretary departure date; full earlier career and independently verified credentials remain unestablished.

  • Person-specific enforcement, litigation, safety, environmental, legal and governance searches across material former employers remain uncompleted; no clearance conclusion is implied.

Katherine Garvey

Company Secretary

Current
Full background report for Katherine Garvey
Role FitAnalyst Inference · Medium materiality

Company Secretary appointment disclosed

Galan Lithium reports that Katherine Garvey was appointed Company Secretary on 23 January 2026. No biography or credential details were available in the reviewed annual report.

Individual involvement documented · The company records the appointment; no wider personal performance claim is made.

Annual Report 30 June 2026 · printed p.1, Corporate Directory
Evidence gaps · 2
  • The annual report records the appointment but provides no full career chronology, education, professional memberships or concurrent interests.
  • Person-specific regulator, court, safety, environmental, legal and governance searches across material former employers were not completed; no clearance conclusion is implied.

Full background report

Katherine Garvey

Company Secretary

Career chronology

  • 23 January 2026–cutoff: Galan Lithium Limited — Company Secretary. Annual Report 30 June 2026 (printed p.1, Corporate Directory)

  • Appointed 23 January 2026–cutoff: Galan Lithium — Company Secretary. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 1 and p. 4, Corporate Directory and Officer biography)

  • Since 20 December 2011 per company annual report: Central Iron Ore — Company Secretary. Central Iron Ore 2023 Annual Report – Katherine Garvey (Directors’ report, Company Secretary section)

  • Senior Associate role 2010–2023 per secondary profile; current legal work per annual profile: Cardinals Lawyers & Consultants — Senior Associate / corporate and commercial lawyer. Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 4, Company Secretary biography)

Education and qualifications

Law and arts degrees; corporate-law background

By 2023–cutoff · issuer reported · medium materiality

Galan’s 2026 annual report states Garvey holds Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Notre Dame Australia and describes her as an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer/company secretary acting for listed companies. A 2023 company annual report provides dated corroboration of her company-secretary work at Central Iron Ore since 2011.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Education and professional history are reported by listed issuers; independent academic or professional-record verification was not established.

Relevance: Directly relevant to company-secretarial, disclosure and governance responsibilities.

Annual Report 2026 (printed p. 4, Company Secretary biography); Central Iron Ore 2023 Annual Report – Katherine Garvey (Company Secretary section)

Suitability for the current role

Company Secretary appointment disclosed

23 January 2026–cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

Galan Lithium reports that Katherine Garvey was appointed Company Secretary on 23 January 2026. No biography or credential details were available in the reviewed annual report.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The company records the appointment; no wider personal performance claim is made.

Relevance: Current company-secretarial coverage is relevant to disclosure and governance execution.

Annual Report 30 June 2026 (printed p.1, Corporate Directory)

Evidence gaps

  • The annual report records the appointment but provides no full career chronology, education, professional memberships or concurrent interests.

  • Person-specific regulator, court, safety, environmental, legal and governance searches across material former employers were not completed; no clearance conclusion is implied.