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2026-11-06

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Full background report

W. Scott Sparks

Chief Operating Officer

Career chronology

Contributions and company outcomes

IperionX reported production scale-up progress

Quarter ended 2026-09-30 · issuer reported · medium materiality

For the September 2026 quarter, IperionX reported 8.7 tonnes of titanium powder production, 19 tonnes of finished inventory and validated HAMR furnace capacity above the 200 tpa target annualized run-rate. Customer qualification and commercial execution remained ongoing.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The result occurred while Sparks was COO; the quarterly report does not assign specific individual contribution.

Relevance: Directly relevant to operations responsibilities, while the plant remains in a scale-up and customer-qualification phase.

September 2026 Quarterly Report (Highlights, operations – titanium powder manufacturing)

Governance and interests

Related-party engineering and construction services were disclosed

FY2026 · documented · medium materiality

IperionX reported that Performance Industries, Inc., a company associated with Sparks, was paid or payable US$70,660 in FY2026 for engineering and construction services; the company said the services were on arm’s-length or better terms. This is a disclosed related-party transaction, not an allegation of misconduct.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The annual report documents the association, payment and company’s stated terms; it does not establish that Sparks personally approved the procurement or that the terms were independently tested.

Relevance: Relevant to related-party controls and procurement oversight; amount is modest relative to the company.

Form 20-F for fiscal year ended June 30, 2026 (Item 7.B, p.92, other transactions with KMP)

Suitability for the current role

Plant engineering and operations experience

Career through 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The issuer reports more than 30 years in engineering and senior leadership for industrial plant design, construction and operations in critical resources, including Performance Industries and DRA Taggart. It reports a Mining Engineering degree from West Virginia Institute of Technology. These statements are issuer-reported.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The available sources do not independently verify prior delivery outcomes or establish that Sparks personally led every listed project.

Relevance: Highly relevant background for plant construction, commissioning and operations at a manufacturing scale-up.

Form 20-F for fiscal year ended June 30, 2026 (Item 6.A, p.80, biography and appointment date)

Evidence gaps

  • Career dates and reported qualifications are not independently verified; broad employer history and project-specific individual contributions remain incomplete.

  • Targeted public-index searches and selected issuer filings are not an exhaustive court, ASIC, SEC enforcement, safety or employment-record check. No person should be treated as cleared.

  • An Indiana appellate opinion names a Scott Sparks in a private personal-injury dispute; no evidence links that person to W. Scott Sparks of IperionX, so it is excluded as an unresolved namesake.