# Kudzai Mtsambiwa Chief Financial Officer; Company Secretary ## Career chronology - **CFO effective 15 January 2025; annual report employment agreement commenced 20 January 2025: Canyon Resources Limited** — Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary. [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (Appointment notice, lines 5–21); [Canyon Resources Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ report, Company Secretary biography and service agreement) - **September 2021 to January 2025: Coda Minerals Limited** — Chief Financial Officer. [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (Appointment notice, lines 16–19); [Canyon Resources Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ report, Company Secretary biography) - **Before Coda; exact dates not stated: Perseus Mining Limited** — Group Financial Controller; Group Planning and Business Analyst. [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (Appointment notice, lines 16–19); [Canyon Resources Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ report, Company Secretary biography) - **Degree stated in Canyon annual report and appointment notice: University of Western Australia** — Bachelor of Commerce (Honours). [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (Appointment notice, lines 20–21); [Canyon Resources Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ report, Company Secretary biography) - **Degree stated in Canyon annual report and appointment notice: Curtin University** — Master of Science in Minerals and Energy Economics. [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (Appointment notice, lines 20–21); [Canyon Resources Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ report, Company Secretary biography) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### CFO tenure overlapped Canyon’s development financing and resource-stage transition [kudzai_canyon_finance_context] FY2025 and appointment effective 15 January 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality Canyon’s 2025 annual report reports that Mtsambiwa joined as CFO/Company Secretary in January 2025 and identifies his role in supporting financing, rail/port access and offtake workstreams. The same annual report reports a FY2025 net loss of A$20.18m and states the company had no significant revenue stream at that stage. These are company context and defined role remit; they do not establish personal responsibility for the loss or prove financing workstreams were completed. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. CFO appointment overlaps the development-stage finance work and year-end loss; no direct causal responsibility is established. **Relevance:** Provides a realistic baseline for role fit and execution: financing remit was central, while at FY2025 cutoff Canyon remained pre-revenue and project development continued. [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (Appointment notice, lines 10–15); [Canyon Resources Annual Report 2025]() (Review of operations and directors’ report, company performance statements) ## Suitability for the current role ### CFO experience and accounting qualifications are documented [kudzai_mtsambiwa_fit] Career through 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · medium materiality Canyon’s 16 January 2025 appointment notice states that Mtsambiwa is a Chartered Accountant with over a decade of experience, was Coda Minerals CFO from September 2021 to January 2025, and held Group Financial Controller and Group Planning and Business Analyst roles at Perseus Mining. It records an MSc in Minerals and Energy Economics from Curtin and a BCom from UWA. Canyon’s FY2025 annual report describes his relevant finance work during Perseus expansion, though his personal contribution to company outcomes is not separately measured. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The career, qualification and appointment details are issuer-reported and not independently verified with the universities or professional body. **Relevance:** Financial control, planning, CFO and company-secretary experience is relevant to the current CFO role and Canyon’s development-stage financing needs. [Appointment of Chief Financial Officer]() (Appointment notice, lines 5–21); [Canyon Resources Annual Report 2025]() (Directors’ report, Company Secretary biography and service agreement); [Board & Management]() (Management Team listing) ## Evidence gaps - Career chronology, prior positions, dates, qualifications and memberships are substantially incomplete unless specifically noted in cited evidence. - No company-outcome attribution or benchmark-adjusted shareholder-return analysis was performed for this executive. - Person-specific fraud, litigation, sanctions, safety, environmental and governance searches were not performed; no clearance or negative finding is implied. - Searches of criminal, court, regulator and professional registers were not exhaustive or, for this pass, generally performed. - No exhaustive searches of Australian or Cameroon court, regulator, sanctions, insolvency, safety, environmental enforcement, litigation or credential databases were completed; public web queries do not imply clearance. - Prior Perseus role dates, professional charter status and education award records have not been independently verified; exact CFO transition date is reported as effective 15 January 2025 while the employment agreement commenced 20 January 2025.