Joan Dabon

Career chronology

• Current at company roster cutoff: Valiant Gold — Company Secretary. Annual report 2026 (PDF p.15, company secretary and appointment)

• 31 August 2023 to 4 November 2025: Vmoto Limited — Company Secretary. Change of company secretary (p.1, change of secretary); Third-quarter 2023 market update (Corporate section, 31 August 2023 appointment)

• Appointed 1 December 2023; shown in FY2026 annual report: Hazer Group — Company Secretary. FY2026 preliminary report and accounts (PDF pp.4 and 14, corporate directory and secretary biography)

• Appointed 19 September 2023 and identified in role on 4 August 2025; end date not established: Donaco International — Company Secretary. Appointment of company secretary (PDF p.1, appointment effective date); Scheme meeting chairman address (PDF p.1, scheme meeting officers)

Contributions and company outcomes

Hazer demonstration and commercial-scale limits

2024–FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Hazer reported more than 240 hours of continuous hydrogen and graphite production in its 2024 demonstration. Its FY2026 report states the process had not yet been demonstrated at full commercial scale; it reported an FY2026 net loss of A$10.38m versus A$7.62m in FY2025.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Hazer identifies Dabon as company secretary; plant development and operating outcomes are not attributed to her.

Relevance: Employer delivery and financial context; a demonstration is not a commercial operating mine or plant.

Commercial demonstration plant operations (PDF p.1, 240-hour demonstration); FY2026 preliminary report and accounts (PDF pp.1, 4, 10 and 14, results, scale-up risk and secretary)

Donaco scheme completed after secretary was identified

August 2025 · issuer reported · low materiality

Donaco identified Dabon as secretary in its 4 August 2025 scheme-meeting materials; on 19 August it reported implementation of a cash acquisition of the remaining shares by On Nut Road.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The meeting notice states that she was absent. Her role on implementation day and any contribution to the scheme are not established.

Relevance: A documented former-employer corporate outcome, with individual attribution limited.

Scheme meeting chairman address (PDF p.1, officers and scheme meeting); Implementation of scheme (PDF p.1, implementation)

Business failures and setbacks

Vmoto customer insolvency and recovery

2023 · issuer reported · low materiality

Vmoto reported a Dutch GreenMo customer bankruptcy in early 2023 and said a July settlement produced US$500,000 received in August and 1,101 returned mopeds in September 2023. Vmoto appointed Dabon secretary on 31 August 2023.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The customer failure and settlement preceded her appointment; the September asset return overlapped the start of her role. No role in the customer failure or settlement is established.

Relevance: Former-employer commercial loss and resolution context.

Third-quarter 2023 market update (Netherlands customer and corporate sections); Annual report 2024 (2024 report, company secretary)

Suitability for the current role

Role-relevant experience

Before and during Valiant role · analyst inference · medium materiality

The issuer reports a Juris Doctor and Governance Institute associate membership and prior work at Source Governance. These are issuer-reported qualifications, not independent verification.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The description comes from the issuer and does not independently establish performance or credentials.

Relevance: Relevant to the present role, subject to verification.

Annual report 2026 (PDF p.15, company secretary and appointment); Investor presentation October 2026 (PDF p.4, management biographies)

Evidence gaps

• Person-specific topic and indexed regulator searches were performed; complete prior-employer chronology, underlying regulator/court registers and independently verified qualifications remain incomplete.

• The issuer presentation identifies four directors and two officers on page 4 and the exploration manager on page 2; other unannounced senior roles cannot be excluded.

• The presentation p.4 and annual report p.15 were visually inspected; other cached PDF pages cited were not visually inspected.

• Donaco’s last reviewed disclosure names her secretary on 4 August 2025; her departure date and role when the acquisition was implemented are not established.