Brendon Nicol

Career chronology

• December 2019–present; Tivan title changes in 2025 and 2026: METS Engineering Group; Tivan Limited — Former METS Engineering consultant; joined Tivan in December 2019; promoted from Process Manager to Technical Director in May 2025 and Chief Technical Officer in July 2026. Worked on process development/metallurgical testwork for vanadium, titanium, alumina, nickel, cobalt, copper, iron ore and gold projects; holds BE Chemical and Process Engineering and BSc Chemistry from UWA.. Tivan announces formation of Leadership Team (Appendix A, Brendon Nicol biography, p. 2; title promotion, lines 14–20)

Education and qualifications

Process engineering and chemistry qualifications

Career history and qualifications as reported 14 May 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Tivan’s May 2025 leadership announcement states that Nicol joined in December 2019 after consulting at METS Engineering, with prior process development and metallurgical testwork experience, and holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical and Process Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Western Australia. The source does not provide award dates or independent verification.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Issuer biography supports stated qualifications and work history; no independent credential check was located.

Relevance: Directly relevant to technical leadership and processing responsibilities.

Tivan announces formation of Leadership Team (Appendix A, Brendon Nicol biography, p. 2; promotion notice lines 14–20)

Personal achievements

Relevant professional experience

Earlier career; exact dates not established in reviewed profile · issuer reported · medium materiality

Chief Technical Officer; announcement describes project execution involvement including Carrapateena; full chronology not independently verified.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The cited profile describes the person’s roles and involvement; outcome attribution is limited to what it explicitly states.

Relevance: Provides role-relevant experience; profile claims are issuer-reported and not a substitute for independent delivery evidence.

Quarterly Activities/Appendix 5B Cash Flow Report (Brendon Nicol profile; career/role section)

Environmental record

Speewah heritage agreement breach acknowledged by Tivan

2025 exploration program; acknowledged 22 September 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

On 22 September 2026 Tivan publicly apologised to Nganjuwarr Native Title Holders and acknowledged that its 2025 Speewah exploration program unintentionally breached a Heritage Protection Agreement; it accepted responsibility for process and record-keeping failures. Tivan said it had reviewed processes, strengthened procedures, required cultural-awareness training for staff and executives, and would pay A$50,000 compensation under a deed of release. The statement does not identify either executive as the operational decision-maker.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The company accepted responsibility. The evidence reviewed does not establish personal involvement by this executive; the event predates Ellin Lede’s recorded executive appointment and is not imputed to her.

Relevance: Heritage controls and stakeholder trust are relevant to project delivery and oversight.

Statement from the Board of Tivan (Board statement; breach, corrective actions, training commitment and A$50,000 payment)

2025 Speewah HPA breach during technical leadership tenure

2025 activity; apology and response dated 22 September 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

Tivan’s Board stated on 22 September 2026 that the company unintentionally breached the HPA during its 2025 Speewah Fluorite exploration campaign because its processes and record-keeping fell short. It apologized to Nganjuwarr Native Title Holders, said Tivan had executed a Deed of Release with Giliwinggin Aboriginal Corporation and would pay $50,000, and reported strengthened controls and cultural-awareness training for employees and executives. Nicol was Technical Director in the 2025 leadership team. The announcement does not identify him as a decision-maker or allege personal misconduct; no regulator outcome was identified in targeted searches.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. This is a company-level admission overlapping Nicol’s technical leadership; evidence does not establish his role in approvals, recordkeeping or field execution. Company reports deed/compensation and remediation; payment completion was not separately verified.

Relevance: Material environment and stakeholder-control signal in context of the CTO remit; personal responsibility remains unestablished.

Statement from the Board of Tivan (Board statement dated 22 September 2026, pp. 1–2); Tivan announces formation of Leadership Team (Leadership announcement, lines 14–20 and Appendix A, p. 2)

Suitability for the current role

Role fit and evidence limits

Assessment at cutoff 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Large-project execution, technical-development and finance/government experience fit project development; a documented heritage-agreement breach raises an oversight issue during the relevant company period.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is an analytical inference from the cited career profile and the company’s stated stage; it does not claim personal causation of company outcomes.

Relevance: Connects prior experience to the role’s execution and oversight needs.

Quarterly Activities/Appendix 5B Cash Flow Report (Brendon Nicol profile; career/role section)

Evidence gaps

• The reviewed public professional and issuer materials did not establish verified degrees or professional credentials for this executive.

• Exact dates for prior roles and independent confirmation of profile claims were unavailable in the reviewed materials.

• The source did not disclose corrective actions, any regulator outcome or individual decision responsibility relating to the Heritage Protection Agreement breach.

• Tivan does not state which individuals were responsible for deficient HPA processes/records or report a regulator outcome. Nicol’s specific involvement is not established; qualification dates were not supplied.