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Mr Tan is also a Director of Casinos Austria International (Cairns) Pty Limited (CAIC), the Operator of the Reef Hotel Casino and a Director of Casinos Austria International Limited. Until 29 September 2023, he was the Executive Director of the Trust. He was previously the CEO of CAIC until 21 August 2020. Mr Tan joined Casinos Austria International Limited in 1995 as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary. Since this time, he has held several positions within the group, including Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary for Reef Casino Trust and Regional Manager (Australia, Asia Pacific) for Casinos Austria Group. Mr Tan holds an honours degree in Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Birmingham, England. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Governance Institute of Australia and the Chartered Governance Institute. Mr Tan also holds a number of directorships within the Casinos Austria Group. Prior to joining Casinos Austria, Mr Tan held positions as an auditor with (now) global audit firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in London and Brisbane, as hotel-casino internal auditor with Hilton Hotels Inc. at Jupiters on the Gold Coast and as Financial Controller and Company Secretary of Bond University on the Gold Coast. He was a director on the board of TTNQ (Tourism Tropical North Queensland) from 2012 to 2015. He was awarded Life Membership of TTNQ in 2022 for being a key player at the city's cornerstone attraction and venue setting the standard for high-end hotels in Cairns for a quarter of a century with a mantra of working together for Cairns and the region as a tourist destination.

Ms Morris has been a member of the Compliance & Risk Committee. Since 1990, Ms Morris has been in management and marketing roles in the tourism industry in the Far North including hotels and resorts, attractions and reef vessels. Through family companies, she has been involved in property development in Port Douglas, the Mt Emerald Windfarm on the Atherton Tablelands as well as cattle and sugar cane properties. Board appointments have included Tourism and Events Queensland, Tourism Port Douglas Daintree, Advance Cairns, Tourism Tropical North Queensland (Chair 2018-2020) the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and she is currently on the board of Cairns based shipping company Sea Swift.

Dr Williams, starting his hotel career in Canada at the iconic Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Mr Williams has more than 30 years experience in hotel operations including 28 years with Accor. Mr Williams has held senior leadership positions within Accor and now, as Chief Operating Officer - Pacific, he head's Accor's operations across the Pacific region with almost 400 hotels and ancillary businesses with 21,000 team members in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Hawaii. He is a Director of Visit Victoria, Accommodation Australia, and the Melbourne Convention Bureau.

Mr Basha has been a member of the Compliance and Risk Committee. In these roles, he has contributed to the Board's oversight of financial reporting integrity, risk management, internal control, and regulatory compliance, consistent with the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. Mr Basha brings more than 20 years' experience as a senior finance executive across multinational organisations. He has experience in financial governance, capital allocation, mergers and acquisitions, divestments, restructures, and business transformation initiatives. His background supports the Board's responsibilities in setting strategy, overseeing financial performance, and monitoring risk. Mr Basha commenced his career with KPMG in 1999, where he worked as an auditor in the Consumer and Industrial Markets group. He joined Accor in 2003 and has held a number of senior finance leadership roles. He is currently Chief Financial Officer for Accor's Premium, Midscale and Economy brands across the Middle East, Africa, Turkey, and Asia Pacific, with responsibility for finance, governance, risk, and compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

Ms Cheadle is chair of the Compliance and Risk Committee. She has been a member of the Compliance, Audit & Risk Committee (CARC) for Reef Casino Trust since 17 April 2024 and was appointed Chair on 1 June 2024. Ms Cheadle has international experience across Australia, Southeast Asia, Jordan, and Russia. Prior to her non-executive career, she held senior leadership roles at Kroll, KordaMentha, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young, where she led corporate turnaround, restructuring, forensic accounting, data analytics, and risk management engagements. Her experience includes the transformation of listed entities, growing a listed Indonesian finance company from approximately USD 29 million to USD 400 million over a five-year period.

Mr Lake is the Senior Vice President Finance Operations, Asia & Pacific, Premium, Midscale and Economy, for Accor. He has 30 years of experience at Accor and during this time, following a number of hotel and cluster Financial Controller roles, Mr Lake spent time as Corporate Asset Manager before then taking on the leadership of the operations finance functions in Australia, then the Pacific and now incorporating Asia as well. In addition to his finance responsibilities, Mr Lake was leader of Procurement for 3 years and in his most recent role Mr Lake has led and been in growing Accor's Hospitality Services division incorporating Qantas Lounges and, more recently, Concierge, Cafes, Kiosks and meeting spaces in Commercial Office towers.

Mr Puhringer has over 15 years of management and controlling experience in the gaming, entertainment and hospitality sectors and has been Chief Executive Officer of Casinos Austria International since January 2022. He joined the Casinos Austria and Austrian Lotteries Group in 2011 as Controller for the WINWIN VLT business unit and was also appointed Managing Director of WINWIN Slovakia in November of the same year. From January 2015 to December 2021, he served as Managing Director of the entire WINWIN business unit. Prior to joining Casinos Austria, Mr Puhringer worked as financial controller for a number of hotel groups.

Mr van Lambaart is a senior executive in the international Hospitality, Entertainment and Gaming Industry. He started his professional career in 1985 and held a variety of positions, including General Manager and Deputy General Manager, until 1995. From 1995 to 1998, he worked as Directeur Delegue Economy Hotels Holland & Sales and Marketing Manager Benelux. During this time, he also gained international experience in the hotel industry at Accor Hotels. In his next chapter, from 1998 to 2011, he was the CEO of Joop van den Ende Theaterproducties/ Endemol/ Stage Entertainment Netherlands, where he was also a Member of the Executive Board & Chief Content Officer of Stage Entertainment International from 2006-2012. In 2012, he switched to the Dutch media and entertainment company Niehe Media BV, where he served as CEO until 2014. Next, he ran Sail Event Partners CV and ACE Concepts & Events BV as CEO from 2014 to 2016. In 2016, he took over as CEO of Holland Casinos NV. On 14 March 2022, Mr van Lambaart moved to Austria and started in the position as Director of the Board of Casinos Austria AG and Osterreichische Lotterien GmbH. From 1 April 2022, Mr van Lambaart was appointed CEO of Casinos Austria AG and Osterreichische Lotterien GmbH. The European Casino Association, representing 31 countries across Europe, appointed Mr van Lambaart as Chairman of the ECA on 7 February 2023. Mr van Lambaart serves as member of the supervisory board of several organisations like Breda University of Applied Sciences (president), Sporthilfe Austria and has been a member of the Dutch Arts Council for 6 years.

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