# Iliya Garkov

Executive Vice President and COO

## Career chronology

- **Issuer-reported role; COO since 2024; earlier senior roles at Chelopech and European operations, with reported contributions to Ada Tepe commissioning.: DPM Metals Inc.** — Executive Vice President and COO. [Management Team](<https://dpmmetals.com/about-us/management-team/>) (Iliya Garkov biography)

## Education and qualifications

### Reported qualifications [exec-2.education]

As reported by issuer · issuer reported · low materiality

PhD mining engineering, University of Mining and Geology, Sofia; issuer reports London Business School executive programme. 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)

## Contributions and company outcomes

### 2025 production and financial results [exec-2.delivery]

2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

DPM reported 244,979 ounces of gold, 30 million pounds of copper, and US$492 million operating cash flow from continuing operations in 2025. These are corporate outcomes and commodity prices also affect financial results.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The company result occurred during this executive role; an individual causal contribution is not isolated.

**Relevance:** Operational and financial delivery.

[2025 Annual Report](<https://dpmmetals.com/site/assets/files/18911/dpm_2025_annual_report.pdf>) (pp. 3–4: performance highlights)

## Environmental record

### Vareš blood-lead concerns [garkov.vares]

2025–2026 · disputed · high materiality

Reuters reported lead detection among residents and a complaint by environmental groups after DPM acquired the Vareš operation. The company said it was cooperating with authorities; in October 2026 the municipality and health centre said testing had not established a specific source or causal link to a particular industry.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Garkov’s operations remit includes Vareš; detected exposure does not establish mine causation or his personal responsibility.

**Relevance:** Material health and environmental oversight context.

[Blood lead testing and company comments](<https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/bosnian-town-seeks-answers-after-hundreds-test-positive-for-lead-in-their-blood-incl-co-comments/>) (Reuters report and company statement); [Vareš health-centre and municipality update](<https://n24.ba/vares-opcina-i-dom-zdravlja-pojasnili-rezultate-testiranja-na-olovo/>) (23 October institutional update); [2026 Management Information Circular](<https://data-api.marketindex.com.au/api/v1/announcements/XASX%3ADPM%3A6A1319347/pdf/inline/2026-management-information-circular-and-notice-of-agm>) (p. 111: COO accountabilities)

## Suitability for the current role

### Relevant career and role [exec-2.career]

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

COO since 2024; earlier senior roles at Chelopech and European operations, with reported contributions to Ada Tepe commissioning.

**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>) (Iliya Garkov 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.