Kenneth Brinsden

Career chronology

• President, CEO and Managing Director from 24 January 2024; current in the selected 31 October 2026 roster.: PMET Resources — President, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Annual Information Form for FYE 31 March 2026 (AIF p. 35; named officers, roles and appointment dates); Our Leadership Team (Leadership profiles, accessed 2 Nov 2026)

• Earlier career after WA School of Mines graduation; dates not disclosed: WMC Resources — Mining engineer / operational roles. Pilbara Minerals Annual Report 2018 (Director profile and prior-employer biography)

• Earlier career; dates not disclosed: Normandy Mining — Mining operations roles. Pilbara Minerals Annual Report 2018 (Director profile and prior-employer biography)

• Earlier career; dates not disclosed: Central Norseman Gold Corporation — Mining operations roles. Pilbara Minerals Annual Report 2018 (Director profile and prior-employer biography)

• Earlier career; dates not disclosed: Iluka Resources — Mining operations roles. Pilbara Minerals Annual Report 2018 (Director profile and prior-employer biography)

• Earlier career; dates not disclosed: Gold Fields — Mining operations roles. Pilbara Minerals Annual Report 2018 (Director profile and prior-employer biography)

• Before PLS; exact dates in reviewed primary sources not established: Atlas Iron — Executive role; later CEO. Pilbara Minerals Annual Report 2018 (Director profile and prior-employer biography)

Education and qualifications

Issuer-reported mining engineering degree and professional memberships

As reported in issuer profile/presentation dated February 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

PMET’s February 2026 presentation lists Brinsden as B.Eng. (Mining), MAusIMM and MAICD. The degree institution, award date and professional membership status were not independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. These are issuer-reported credentials; no university or professional-register verification was completed.

Relevance: Relevant to the executive’s stated role; credential verification remains a limitation.

PMET Resources Corporate Presentation, February 2026 (Management team profile, p. 32)

Contributions and company outcomes

Pilgangoora moved from first drill hole to production in under four years

2016–2020 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Pilbara Minerals’ 2020 annual report says the Pilgangoora lithium-tantalum project progressed from first drill hole to production in under four years. Brinsden had been CEO from January 2016 and MD from May 2016. This is a company-reported project outcome during his tenure, not independently quantified personal causation.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. He led the issuer during the project development period; no claim that he alone caused the result is made.

Relevance: Relevant to oversight and development execution at PMET’s advanced exploration project, with the comparator limited to an earlier employer project.

Pilbara Minerals Annual Report 2020 (Director profile, p. 39; Pilgangoora first-drill-to-production statement)

Federal contribution approved for the Shaakichiuwaanaan access road

28 October 2026 · issuer reported · low materiality

On 28 October 2026 PMET reported that Natural Resources Canada approved a C$1,215,185 contribution to wholly owned subsidiary Innova Lithium for an approximately 20 km access road. CEO Brinsden welcomed the support in an issuer quote. The release does not establish that he personally secured or negotiated the contribution; this is a low-materiality company outcome during his CEO tenure, with role overlap only.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Brinsden was the current CEO and commented on the approved contribution. No evidence reviewed links him personally to the funding application or approval decision.

Relevance: External project infrastructure support is relevant to the CEO’s development-stage oversight, but the contribution is modest and does not establish individual execution.

PMET Resources Announces Federal Funding of C$1.2 Million to its 100%-Owned Subsidiary Innova Lithium for Shaakichiuwaanaan Access Road (Announcement paragraphs 1–3; C$1,215,185 contribution and CEO quote)

Industrial safety

Fatal personnel incident at former employer; company said it was unrelated to mining operations

November 2019; court disposition March 2022 · documented · low materiality

On 11 November 2019 a contractor personnel fatality occurred at Pilgangoora. PLS said the incident was unrelated to mining operations and involved personnel. The contractor, Troy Hausler, later pleaded guilty to manslaughter after prosecutors accepted a lesser charge than murder; the court reporting described a psychotic episode. The public record reviewed does not attribute the act to Brinsden or establish management causation. PLS FY2020 report separately recorded no work-related fatalities/serious injuries at the mine, so its work-related-safety statistic does not negate this interpersonal death.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Brinsden was PLS MD/CEO and publicly responded as leader. The death was committed by a contractor colleague in an interpersonal incident; no personal fault, company safety breach or causal management failure was established in sources reviewed.

Relevance: Material site event during his CEO tenure, now followed through to criminal disposition. Distinguish interpersonal violence from an operational mining fatality.

Police investigation at Pilgangoora (ASX release 11 Nov 2019); Troy Hausler guilty of FIFO colleague Tobias Richter’s death at Pilbara mine site (ABC court report, 11 Mar 2022; lesser manslaughter plea and court disposition); Pilbara Minerals Annual Report 2020 (FY2020 safety and CEO profile, annual report)

Suitability for the current role

Current roster role and disclosed evidence: Kenneth Brinsden

Current role as of cutoff · analyst inference · low materiality

The selected V8.1 roster and 2026 AIF identify Kenneth Brinsden as President, CEO and Managing Director from 24 January 2024; the current issuer page uses the same core titles. The sources establish role and tenure but do not independently verify all qualifications or prove personal causation of company outcomes.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a limited analyst assessment from the issuer-reported current role; no personal outcome is inferred.

Relevance: Role match is relevant to present oversight, but the source set is too thin to assess delivery or effectiveness.

Annual Information Form for FYE 31 March 2026 (AIF p. 35; named officers, roles and appointment dates); Our Leadership Team (Leadership profiles, accessed 2 Nov 2026)

Evidence gaps

• Full role chronology, earlier employers and dates were not independently established in this limited pass.

• Credentials and memberships were not independently verified.

• The searches documented here are open-web screening only, not exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation, safety or credential checks.