Ben Pearson

Career chronology

• Current role; start date not established in reviewed sources: Strickland Metals Limited — Environment and Permitting Manager. Board & Management (Strickland April 2026 presentation, Environment and Permitting Manager entry)

• 25+ years; employer dates not stated: International mining projects and independent consulting — Environmental management and permitting, impact assessment and sustainability; independent Equator Principles/IFC standards review. Rogozna project update and key personnel appointments (Key personnel appointments, lines 80–86)

Environmental record

Baseline and formal ESG work remained in progress at Rogozna

2025 submission / assessment, accessed by cutoff · documented · low materiality

The independent Digbee assessment of Strickland’s September 2025 submission said environmental and social baseline studies and permit compliance were still being developed, a preliminary environmental baseline assessment was ongoing, and the company did not yet have a formal corporate ESG strategy. It also reported site-level controls, legacy drill-pad rehabilitation and cultural-heritage protections, and identified NGO scrutiny, habitat and community sensitivities as contextual risks. Digbee names Pearson as submission administrator. This is project/company oversight context during his Environment and Permitting Manager role, not a finding of personal breach or failure.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Pearson’s named administrator role and environmental-permitting remit overlap with the report; the assessment does not attribute any breach or failure to him personally.

Relevance: Relevant to environmental baseline planning, permit readiness and governance expectations in his current remit.

Digbee ESG Submission, September 2025 (Executive summary and submission team, pp. 3–4)

Suitability for the current role

Public evidence of fit for Environment and Permitting Manager

Current role and prior career as stated by issuer · analyst inference · low materiality

The issuer identifies this person as Environment and Permitting Manager. This confirms formal role alignment, while the reviewed public material provides little dated evidence about prior delivery or credentials; the role-fit view is therefore limited.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is an analyst role-fit judgment based on the cited role and issuer-reported experience; it does not assign personal responsibility for company outcomes.

Relevance: Relevant to the current Environment and Permitting Manager role, with evidence quality constrained by the source scope.

Board & Management (Strickland April 2026 presentation, Environment and Permitting Manager entry)

Evidence gaps

• The reviewed issuer material confirms the current title but does not provide a dated full career history or independently verifiable qualifications; prior roles and credentials therefore remain unverified.

• Open-web searches do not constitute an exhaustive criminal, sanctions, litigation, regulator, safety or credential check; sources outside the documented search scope may exist.