Gregory Bittar

Career chronology

• As disclosed through 2026; exact start and continuity where noted: Lotus Resources — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Annual Report 2026 (Directors report, Gregory Bittar)

Education and qualifications

Issuer-reported qualifications

As reported in issuer biography · issuer reported · low materiality

The issuer reports economics and law degrees from the University of Sydney and a finance masters from London Business School.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer biography is not independent confirmation of degree or professional admission.

Relevance: Relevant qualifications for role assessment; credentials remain unverified.

Board and management (Management biography: Gregory Bittar)

Contributions and company outcomes

Restart achieved; ramp-up remains difficult

FY2026 and September quarter 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

Lotus reported restarting Kayelekera and first uranium production in 2025; FY2026 produced 332.1 thousand pounds of uranium oxide while its board acknowledged operational and cost targets were missed. In September 2026 quarter it produced 101.8 thousand pounds over 31 processing days.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. CEO role overlaps the restart; no specific personal causal contribution is established.

Relevance: Direct evidence of operational delivery and its limits.

Annual Report 2026 (Chair/MD letter and operating review pp.4–14); September 2026 quarterly report (pp.1–4)

Industrial safety

Disputed water quality and corrective response

February–March 2026 · disputed · high materiality

A March 2026 Mail & Guardian report described a Karonga district audit alleging treated drinking-water and sanitation failures, including two uranium readings above Malawi’s drinking-water limit. Lotus said the audit was preliminary and that the team did not itself sample; Bittar said bottled water was being provided and monitoring and treatment were being improved. The article reported NWRA testing was then pending. A later investigation was identified but could not be opened; the subsequent regulator results and current remediation status remain unknown.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Bittar was CEO and personally gave the company response; the report does not establish his personal responsibility for the water findings.

Relevance: Material workplace and environmental oversight; final laboratory results and remediation effectiveness were not independently obtained.

Uranium mine audit flags toxic water and sanitation failures (March 20 report, district audit, company and NWRA responses)

Governance and interests

Production metrics retracted and ASX query

April–May 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

In April 2026 Lotus retracted earlier head-grade and recovery metrics after reporting assay and measurement inconsistencies. In May ASX queried when Lotus became aware of operating information; Lotus provided its explanation and described its view of materiality. A query is not itself a finding of breach.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Bittar was CEO when the disclosures were made; no individual breach or intent has been established.

Relevance: Disclosure controls and measurement quality bear on leadership assessment.

March 2026 Quarterly Activities (pp.2–4, retractions and remediation); Response to ASX Aware Query (pp.1–3, company reply and ASX query)

Suitability for the current role

Career and role fit

Through cutoff · analyst inference · low materiality

Analyst inference: Lotus appointed him CEO on 9 August 2024 and managing director on 12 December 2024; issuer reports an investment-banking and resources background, and economics and law degrees and finance masters. This experience is relevant to the role but does not establish individual operating results.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role-fit inference from company and dated role records; not a finding of personal performance.

Relevance: Relevant to company execution; prior-employer histories remain incompletely corroborated.

Annual Report 2026 (Directors report, Gregory Bittar)

Evidence gaps

• Independent credential and professional-membership verification was not obtained.

• Full prior-employer chronology, outcomes and personal contributions were not established.

• Open-web searches and accessible public records are a limited screening, not an exhaustive court, regulator, sanctions or criminal-record check.

• Several topic rows reuse one broad search; dedicated person-specific former-employer, fraud, safety, environmental, legal and regulator searches remain incomplete.

• The original district water audit, regulator test results and later remediation status could not be independently established.