Geoffrey Newcombe

Career chronology

• From 2025-12-01: Sunrise Energy Metals — Project Director Syerston. Sunrise strengthens management team to deliver Syerston (Page 1; company description of past experience); FY2026 Annual Report (Physical p26, appointment from 1 December 2025)

Environmental record

Cadia air-emissions offences and later resolution

2021–2025 · documented · medium materiality

The NSW EPA says Cadia Holdings pleaded guilty to three dust-emission offences between 2021 and May 2023 and was ordered to pay A$350,000 in fines plus A$61,500 to a monitoring network in 2025. Separate proceedings concerning two 2022 tailings dust incidents were discontinued in December 2025 after an enforceable undertaking. A company report identifies Newcombe as acting Cadia general manager on 31 October 2023, after the offence dates.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The exact dates of his role, and any overlap with the emission events, are not established. The regulator finding was against Cadia Holdings, not Newcombe, and no personal responsibility is inferred.

Relevance: Material environmental record of an operation associated with his past employer, with explicit limits on timing and attribution.

Cadia Valley Operations Annual Review FY23 (Front matter, acting general manager and signature dated 31 October 2023); Cadia Holdings ordered to pay over $400,000 (2 April 2025 notice, company guilty plea and sentencing); Cadia to pay more than $300,000 for rural dust monitoring network (22 December 2025 notice, separate tailings proceedings discontinued and undertaking)

Governance and interests

Board’s FY2026 project delivery assessment

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

The FY2026 annual report said Newcombe commenced as project director on 1 December 2025. The board assessed his individual short-term incentive objectives at 42% of target; these included FEED, site readiness and a targeted 30 June 2026 investment decision. The report does not identify the score for each objective, so the reason for the outcome is not established.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. This is the company board’s disclosed individual assessment, not independent attribution of a project delay or finding of misconduct.

Relevance: Provides a disclosed performance assessment during the project-development phase.

FY2026 Annual Report (Physical pages 31–32, FY2026 remuneration report)

Suitability for the current role

Role-related experience

Career as disclosed · analyst inference · low materiality

The issuer describes more than 25 years in mining and project development, and prior Newmont and Newcrest roles including Cadia strategic and integrated planning; exact historical role dates remain unverified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The relevance of the issuer-described roles to the current post is an analytical inference; independent credential and former-employer checks remain incomplete.

Relevance: Indicates a possible match to the stated responsibilities without demonstrating all claimed outcomes.

Sunrise strengthens management team to deliver Syerston (Page 1; company description of past experience); FY2026 Annual Report (Physical p26, appointment from 1 December 2025)

Evidence gaps

• This is a partial public-record screen. Separate named-person topic searches and comprehensive prior-employer, court, regulator, safety and environmental checks have not been completed.

• The issuer’s career and qualification statements have not been independently verified with all previous employers, institutions or registers.

• No clearance or exhaustive negative search result is implied.