Sunstone Metals Management

Management criteria checks 3/4

Sunstone Metals' CEO is Patrick Duffy, appointed in Apr 2024, has a tenure of less than a year. total yearly compensation is A$114.33K, comprised of 81.8% salary and 18.2% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 0.53% of the company’s shares, worth A$190.62K. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 5.1 years and 4.1 years respectively.

Key information

Patrick Duffy

Chief executive officer

AU$114.3k

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage	81.8%
CEO tenure	less than a year
CEO ownership	0.5%
Management average tenure	5.1yrs
Board average tenure	4.1yrs

Recent management updates

Recent updates

We Wouldn't Rely On Sunstone Metals's (ASX:STM) Statutory Earnings As A Guide

Dec 29

CEO Compensation Analysis

How has Patrick Duffy's remuneration changed compared to Sunstone Metals's earnings?
Date	Total Compensation	Salary	Company Earnings
Jun 30 2024	AU$114k	AU$94k	-AU$2m

Compensation vs Market: Patrick's total compensation ($USD74.34K) is below average for companies of similar size in the Australian market ($USD298.55K).

Compensation vs Earnings: Insufficient data to compare Patrick's compensation with company performance.

CEO

Patrick Duffy

less than a year

Tenure

AU$114,331

Compensation

Mr. Patrick Duffy, B.COM, CA, has been Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Director of Sunstone Metals Limited since April 15, 2024. He served as Chief Corporate Development Officer at Red 5 Lim...

Leadership Team

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Patrick Duffy	CEO, MD & Director	less than a year	AU$114.33k	0.53% A$ 190.6k
Bruce Rohrlach	General Manager of Geology	9.6yrs	AU$435.21k	0.44% A$ 157.7k
Raymond Robinson	General Manager of Studies & Technical Services	9.8yrs	AU$449.77k	0.41% A$ 147.4k
Lucas Welsh	CFO & Company Secretary	less than a year	no data	no data

5.1yrs

Average Tenure

Experienced Management: STM's management team is seasoned and experienced (5.1 years average tenure).

Board Members

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Patrick Duffy	CEO, MD & Director	less than a year	AU$114.33k	0.53% A$ 190.6k
Malcolm Norris	Non-Executive Chair	10.6yrs	AU$536.08k	1.0% A$ 357.7k
Stephen Stroud	Independent Non-Executive Director	7.2yrs	AU$78.59k	0.37% A$ 132.1k
Neal O'Connor	Independent Non-Executive Director	less than a year	AU$12.31k	0.22% A$ 79.7k

4.1yrs

Average Tenure

Experienced Board: STM's board of directors are considered experienced (4.1 years average tenure).

Sunstone Metals Management

Management criteria checks 3/4

Key information

Recent management updates

Less than half of directors are independent

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces the Appointment of Patrick Duffy as Non-Executive Director

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces the Appointment of Patrick Duffy as Non-Executive Director

Sunstone Metals Limited, Annual General Meeting, Oct 17, 2023

Insufficient new directors

MD, CEO & Director exercised options to buy AU$179k worth of stock.

Recent updates

Sunstone Metals Limited has completed a Follow-on Equity Offering in the amount of AUD 2.5 million.

New major risk - Shareholder dilution

New major risk - Share price stability

Sunstone Metals Limited has completed a Follow-on Equity Offering in the amount of AUD 2.022 million.

Sunstone Metals Limited has filed a Follow-on Equity Offering in the amount of AUD 2.022 million.

Less than half of directors are independent

Sunstone Metals Limited has completed a Follow-on Equity Offering in the amount of AUD 5.024 million.

New major risk - Share price stability

Sunstone Metals Limited has filed a Follow-on Equity Offering in the amount of AUD 5.179 million.

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces the Appointment of Patrick Duffy as Non-Executive Director

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces the Appointment of Patrick Duffy as Non-Executive Director

New major risk - Share price stability

Sunstone Metals Limited, Annual General Meeting, Oct 17, 2023

New minor risk - Share price stability

New minor risk - Share price stability

Sunstone Metals Ltd Announces Extremely Promising Assays from Drilling At the Large T2 Geophysical Anomaly At its El Palmar Porphyry Gold-Copper Discovery in Northern Ecuador

Sunstone Metals Ltd Announce the Discovery from Drilling Undertaken in December 2022 of A Well Mineralised Gold-Copper Porphyry System At the Limon Target Within the Bramaderos Project in Southern Ecuador

Sunstone Metals Ltd Announces an Initial Mineral Resource Estimate (Mre) and an Initial Exploration Target for the Bramaderos Gold-Copper Porphyry Project in Southern Ecuador

Insufficient new directors

MD, CEO & Director exercised options to buy AU$179k worth of stock.

Sunstone Metals Ltd. Announces More Wide Intersections for Inclusion in Maiden Resource

Sunstone Metals Ltd Announces Mineralised Area Continues to Grow as Drilling Delivers More Strong Results

Sunstone Metals Limited, Annual General Meeting, Oct 27, 2022

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces Drilling Results of Bramaderos Gold-Copper Project, Southern Ecuador

Sunstone Metals Limited Expands the Size of Its Brama-Alba Porphyry Discovery in Southern Ecuador

MD, CEO & Director exercised options to buy AU$235k worth of stock.

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces the Latest Assays at El Palmar Continued to Expand the Area of Known Mineralisation and Reveal Significant Higher-Grade Zones of >0.2% Copper and 0.35G/T Gold

Sunstone Metals Limited (ASX:STM) is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire the Verde Chico Project from Verde Chico Group for AUD 27 million.

Sunstone Metals Limited (ASX:STM) is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire the Verde Chico Project from Verde Chico Group for A$27m.

Sunstone Metals Ltd Announces Strong Assays Which Extend Its Brama-Alba Porphyry Discovery in Southern Ecuador to 1.1Km Long by 400M Wide

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces Strong Assays from Four More Holes in the Upper 500M At El Palmar

Sunstone Metals Reports Further Strong Assays Which Confirm Its Alba Discovery Within the Bramaderos Project in Southern Ecuador

Insufficient new directors

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces Alba High Grade Gold-Copper Porphyry Drilling Results

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces Strong Assays from Two More Holes Confirm El Palmar Is A Large Mineralised Porphyry

United Lithium Corp. (CNSX:ULTH) completed the acquisition of a 83.6% stake in Finland Lithium Project from Sunstone Metals Limited (ASX:STM) for CAD 0.87 million.

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces Gold-Copper Porphyry At Alba Below Gold Zonewell Mineralised Gold-Copper Porphyry Intersected Below Alba Gold Discovery

United Lithium Corp. (CNSX:ULTH) signed a definitive agreement to acquire 83.6% stake in Finland Lithium Project from Sunstone Metals Limited (ASX:STM) for CAD 0.81 million.

Sunstone Metals Ltd Identifies Additional Targets

MD, CEO & Director exercised options to buy AU$70k worth of stock.

Sunstone Metals Ltd announces more outstanding assays from the El Palmar deposit in northern Ecuador

MD, CEO & Director exercised options to buy AU$85k worth of stock.

MD, CEO & Director exercised options to buy AU$495k worth of stock.

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces 480m Intersection of Gold and Copper in Its First Drill Hole At El Palmar

Sunstone Metals Limited Provides Update on El Palmar Copper-Gold Porphyry Target, Northern Ecuador

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces Drilling About to Commence at El Palmar Copper-Gold Project, Ecuador

Sunstone Metals Limited Announces Strong Assay Results Which Show Drilling Intersected 505M of Mineralised Gold-Copper Porphyry At the Brama Prospect

Sunstone Metals Ltd Identifies A Compelling Copper-Gold Porphyry Target At Its El Palmar Project in Northern Ecuador

United Lithium Corp. (CNSX:ULTH) signed a letter of intent to acquire Finland Lithium project from Sunstone Metals Limited (ASX:STM) and Nortec Minerals Corp. (TSXV:NVT).

Sunstone Metals Limited's First Hole of the Phase 2 Program at Brama Hits Mineralised Porphyry over Shallow 300m Intersection

Sunstone Metals Ltd Provides Drilling Results from the Espiritu Silver-Gold Discovery

Sunstone Metals Ltd Provides an Update on Corporate Activities Along with Exploration at its Espiritu Silver-Gold Discovery and Brama Porphyry Gold-Copper Target

NewPeak Metals Limited (ASX:NPM) entered into an agreement to acquire Southern Finland Gold Project from Sunstone Metals Limited (ASX:STM) for AUD 1.8 million.

Sunstone Metals Ltd Announces Ecuador Exploration Update

We Wouldn't Rely On Sunstone Metals's (ASX:STM) Statutory Earnings As A Guide

Sunstone Metals Limited (ASX:STM) signed a binding term sheet to acquire El Palmar copper-gold porphyry project in Ecuador for $2.9 million

Price target lowered to AU$0.04

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