# Irena Tsakova

General Manager, Ada Tepe

## Career chronology

- **Issuer-reported role; Joined Chelopech in 1999; led HSE and permitting, worked on the Krumovgrad project, and became Ada Tepe GM in April 2024.: DPM Metals Inc.** — General Manager, Ada Tepe. [Management Team](<https://dpmmetals.com/about-us/management-team/>) (Irena Tsakova biography)

- **Dates not established: Kremikovtsi Iron &amp; Steel Complex** — Environment Department. [Management Team](<https://dpmmetals.com/about-us/management-team/>) (Irena Tsakova biography)

## Education and qualifications

### Reported qualifications [exec-16.education]

As reported by issuer · issuer reported · low materiality

Issuer reports masters degrees in chemical engineering and environmental monitoring, control and health. Credentials were not independently verified with the institutions or professional registers.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Issuer-reported qualifications, not independently verified.

**Relevance:** Experience and credentials relevant to the role.

[Management Team](<https://dpmmetals.com/about-us/management-team/>) (Named management biography)

## Suitability for the current role

### Relevant career and role [exec-16.career]

Dated and undated issuer biographies through 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Joined Chelopech in 1999; led HSE and permitting, worked on the Krumovgrad project, and became Ada Tepe GM in April 2024.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Issuer biography and dated roster; experience does not by itself prove individual contribution.

**Relevance:** Context for role fit.

[2025 Annual Report](<https://dpmmetals.com/site/assets/files/18911/dpm_2025_annual_report.pdf>) (Irena Tsakova officer listing on p. 133); [Management Team](<https://dpmmetals.com/about-us/management-team/>) (Named management biography)

## Evidence gaps

- Independent verification of reported qualifications and professional memberships was not completed.

- Prior-employer outcomes and dates, and role-specific responsibility, remain incompletely corroborated.

- Targeted local-language regulator, court and historical incident searches are incomplete; this screening is not a clearance.