The Directors of Gold Hydrogen Limited to advised of the appointment of Dr. Josh Whitcombe as the Company's Chief Operating Officer with effect from 1 July 2023. This appointment comes at a crucial time as the Company continues to focus on the drilling of its initial exploration well at its flagship Ramsay Project in South Australia, as detailed in its market release of 6 June 2023. Dr Whitcombe was most recently the Chief Operating Officer of WestSide Corporation, after being asked to return to the business in late 2022 by its parent company.

He commenced his career with Shell International drilling offshore developments in the North Sea before moving to coal seam gas exploration and development in Australia, initially with Santos. Prior to returning to WestSide, Dr Whitcombe was the Chief Operating Officer at Blue Energy, an ASX-listed CSG exploration and appraisal company. He has broad industry experience, managing operations from frontier exploration and appraisal projects to integrated brown field conventional assets.

In addition to his oil and gas experience, he holds a Bachelor's Degree and PhD in Environmental Engineering and an MBA, giving him a strong awareness and understanding of environmental, community and commercial issues. Dr Whitcombe is a Chartered Chemical Engineer (UK), and a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ). has named Ernest Piccioli, a former executive at Truist Financial Corp., as its new chief risk officer and senior executive vice president.

Piccioli started his role in May and is now based at TowneBank's headquarters in Suffolk, Virginia. He was a Charlotte-based banker for decades. Piccioli is responsible for the effective governance of risk programs for TowneBank and oversees the risk management, vendor management, credit review and appraisal services He has more than three decades of risk management experience, including most recently serving as a business-unit chief risk officer for retail and small business banking at Charlotte-based Truist.

Piccioli had also previously worked at Winston-Salem-based BB&T, which merged with Atlanta-based SunTrust in late 2019 to form Truist. Piccioli replaces John Wallace, who was formerly promoted as TowneBank's chief risk officer in October of last year. Piccioli earned his bachelor's degree in business management and economics from N.C. State and an MBA at Wake Forest University.

He has remained active in the community throughout his career by serving as a member of the Risk Management Association's Lending and Credit Risk Professionals group and the Consumer Bankers Association Risk Committee.