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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Stuart Ellison

Chief Operating Officer

Career chronology

  • GM Project Development since January 2023; promoted COO on 20 January 2025: Saturn Metals Limited — Chief Operating Officer; previously General Manager – Project Development. Appointment of Senior Executives (Announcement, lines 24–30); Board and Management (Stuart Ellison profile, lines 83–89)

  • Prior career; dates not stated by issuer: Westgold Resources; other mining companies and contractors — General Manager – Operations at Westgold; mining executive roles across gold and base metals. Board and Management (Stuart Ellison profile, lines 87–89); Appointment of Senior Executives (Announcement, lines 26–29)

Suitability for the current role

Mining operations and development experience relevant to COO remit

Career through 9 October 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality

Saturn identifies Ellison as a mining engineer with more than 20 years’ experience leading and developing gold and base-metal underground and surface operations in Australia and Southeast Asia. He held General Manager – Project Development from January 2023 and was promoted to COO in January 2025; Saturn identifies prior General Manager – Operations experience at Westgold Resources. The current issuer profile reports BEng (Mining), First Class Honours, Curtin University, and an MBA from Deakin University. This is relevant experience, but the reviewed sources do not independently establish delivery outcomes attributable to Ellison.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role-fit assessment based on issuer profile and appointment announcement; no personal misconduct or project delivery outcome inferred.

Relevance: Directly relevant to oversight of Apollo Hill development and operational planning.

Appointment of Senior Executives (Announcement, lines 24–30); Board and Management (Stuart Ellison profile, lines 83–89)

Evidence gaps

  • The issuer reports previous roles at Westgold Resources and other mining groups but does not provide a complete dated employment chronology. Public-source review did not independently authenticate the reported degrees or provide project-by-project attributable delivery outcomes.

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