# Mark Benson General Manager — Telfer ## Career chronology - **Current role and background: Promoted Telfer general manager January 2026; earlier Telfer processing and maintenance roles: Greatland Resources Limited** — General Manager — Telfer. [December 2025 quarterly activities report]() (Management, general manager promotion); [Corporate presentation]() (Experienced technical leadership team) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Telfer first full-year production [mark-benson_telfer] FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality Greatland reports that Telfer produced 328,987 ounces of gold in FY2026, its first full financial year under Greatland ownership. The company reported improvements in safety indicators; the result is a group outcome rather than a quantified individual achievement. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Richter served as acting COO for part of FY2026 and Benson was promoted site general manager in January 2026; individual causal contributions are not quantified. **Relevance:** Delivered mine production and operational performance. [Annual report 2026]() (FY2026 highlights and leadership section); [December 2025 quarterly activities report]() (General manager promotion) ## Suitability for the current role ### Experience relevant to role [mark-benson_fit] Career and current role as disclosed · analyst inference · low materiality Telfer site and processing experience is relevant to direct operational delivery. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Analytical inference from disclosed roles; precise personal contribution to employer outcomes varies. **Relevance:** Team capability and role fit. [December 2025 quarterly activities report]() (Management, general manager promotion); [Corporate presentation]() (Experienced technical leadership team) ## Evidence gaps - Independent verification of reported credentials and complete prior-employer dates was not obtained. - Targeted public-source searches do not exhaust legal, regulatory, sanctions, safety or litigation records. - Individual contribution to company-wide outcomes is not quantified. - Specific career dates, qualifications, and whether the role continued unchanged to 31 October 2026 have not been independently confirmed. - Some earlier topic rows reuse broad person and employer searches; topic-specific regulator, court, safety, fraud and environmental searches and full prior-employer histories are incomplete.