Alain William

Career chronology

• Current selected company roster; appointment 2026-04-15: PDI Gold Limited — Executive Director, Chief Legal and Government Relations Officer. PDI Gold Annual Report FY2026 (Page 13, leadership team)

• June 2022–at least April 2026; later subsidiary-role continuity not established: Robex Resources — Chief Financial Officer and stakeholder engagement. 2025 Robex annual meeting circular (Executive officers and services)

• 2018–2022: Oddo BHF — Metals and mining analyst. Board and Management (Executive director biography)

• Listed in minutes dated 27 December 2024; later continuity not independently confirmed: Nampala SA — Board chairman. Robex 2025 prospectus and independent legal report (Page 621, company directors and December 2024 minutes)

Education and qualifications

Reported finance qualifications

Historical biography · issuer reported · low materiality

A historical Robex biography reports an MSc in finance from Tours ESC and a bachelor in economics and finance from Paris I Sorbonne. The institutions and current credentials were not independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer-reported education; no institutional confirmation obtained.

Relevance: Relevant to financial and legal-role background.

Historical Robex management biographies (Alain William historical biography)

Industrial safety

Nampala security incident during Robex CFO tenure

December 2022 and subsequent company reporting · disputed · high materiality

Robex reported that an incident involving a gendarme and artisanal miners in December 2022 led to one death and one injury, followed by temporary suspension. The 2026 information form says production was delayed about three days. A local witness account differs on who fired; the final official investigation outcome was not found.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. William was Robex CFO at the time; no evidence establishes his personal involvement, responsibility, or conduct in the security incident.

Relevance: Company-community safety and oversight context, with competing accounts.

Incident at Nampala, Mali (Incident statement); 2025 Annual Information Form (Page 68, Nampala history); Nampala incident local report (Witness account and reported uncertainty)

Litigation and enforcement

Vendor dispute settled

2022 acquisition; settlement in 2025 · documented · medium materiality

Robex disclosed an April 2025 settlement with certain vendors over its 2022 Sycamore acquisition, including C$1 million cash and 12.5 million warrants, which it accounted for as legal claim expenses. The filing does not establish executive wrongdoing.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. William was CFO during the acquisition and settlement; his specific role in the dispute is not established.

Relevance: Transaction and legal risk context for the legal and government-relations role.

Robex half-year financial statements (Note 22, legal claim expenses)

Mali tax and customs settlement

September 2024–February 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Robex’s prospectus says a September 2024 settlement resolved Nampala income-tax and customs disputes for periods before the end of 2023. It records a payment of about US$17 million and foregoing VAT credits worth about US$8.5 million, and reports the February 2025 signing of a new mining convention. A settlement does not itself establish misconduct.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The executive held a Robex leadership role during the settlement; the executive’s specific role in the underlying disputes is not established.

Relevance: Material legal, tax and governmental context for the prior operating business.

Robex 2025 prospectus and independent legal report (Page 625, settlement agreement and convention)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant reported experience

Career through 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality

Alain William has issuer-reported experience relevant to the current executive director, chief legal and government relations officer role. The career chronology gives the underlying roles; independent verification and precise earlier tenure remain limited.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role fit is an analytical inference from disclosed roles, not an independent verification of credentials.

Relevance: Relevant experience for the executive function.

PDI Gold Annual Report FY2026 (Page 13, leadership team); March 2026 Quarter presentation (Page 16, management biographies)

Evidence gaps

• Independent credentials and professional membership were not confirmed with institutions.

• Prior-employer dates, outcomes and personal contributions require broader independent corroboration.

• Court, regulator and local-language records across relevant jurisdictions were not comprehensively reviewed; this is a limited public-source screen.

• Final official Nampala incident investigation and competing witness accounts were not resolved; service-role responsibilities are limited.

• The review reused broad name-and-employer searches across topics; dedicated searches of each topic for each former employer and every jurisdiction were not completed.