# Fran Summerhayes

Chief Financial Officer

## Career chronology

- **From 2025-09-15: Evolution Mining** — Chief Financial Officer. [2026 Annual Report](<https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03151459-2A1705463>) (2026 annual report, leadership biography)

- **Dates not fully established: BHP** — Vice President Finance, Minerals Americas. [2026 Annual Report](<https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03151459-2A1705463>) (2026 annual report, leadership biography)

- **Dates not fully established: BHP** — Head of Finance, iron ore. [2026 Annual Report](<https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03151459-2A1705463>) (2026 annual report, leadership biography)

## Education and qualifications

### Qualifications disclosed [fran-summerhayes_education]

Qualifications reported in cited sources · issuer reported · low materiality

The 2026 annual report says Summerhayes holds a Bachelor of Business and Accounting, master’s in financial analysis and postgraduate supply-chain certificate; institutions and credentials were not independently verified.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Education is reported by cited issuers or the person; records were not independently confirmed.

**Relevance:** Evidence of relevant training, subject to verification.

[2026 Annual Report](<https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03151459-2A1705463>) (Biography and qualifications)

## Contributions and company outcomes

### FY2026 results and Mungari expansion [fran-summerhayes_results]

FY2025–FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Evolution reported FY2026 statutory net profit A$1.475 billion versus A$926 million, and Mungari production rose from 135,000 oz to 186,000 oz after expansion commissioning. Group average realised gold price rose about 40%, an important contributor to profit.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. This is a company result; executive-specific causal contributions were not established.

**Relevance:** Operating and financial delivery during tenure.

[FY26 Full Year Financial Results and Final Dividend](<https://evolutionmining.com/wp-content/uploads/evn_fy26_full_year_financial_results_and_final_dividend.pdf>) (FY26 performance and Mungari operations); [2026 Annual Report](<https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03151459-2A1705463>) (Financial report, operating results and key metrics)

## Suitability for the current role

### Relevant experience [fran-summerhayes_role]

Career through 31 October 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality

Analyst inference: CFO commenced 15 September 2025; previously BHP Vice President Finance Minerals Americas and BHP iron-ore finance head; started career at PwC. BHP directly identified her in the Americas role in November 2024.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Experience is based on dated issuer material; role fit is an analytical judgment, not proof of individual contribution.

**Relevance:** Relevant to execution of the current role.

[2026 Annual Report](<https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03151459-2A1705463>) (2026 annual report, leadership biographies, printed pp.14–16); [Chile copper site tour presentations and speeches](<https://www.bhp.com/-/media/documents/media/reports-and-presentations/2024/241119_chileancoppersitetour_day1presentationsandspeeches.pdf>) (Chile copper site tour speeches, printed p.38)

## Evidence gaps

- Independent verification of stated qualifications, licences and memberships was not obtained.

- Prior-employer histories, local court and regulator records and individual contributions to company outcomes remain incomplete; this is not a clearance.