# Patrick Downey

President, CEO and Director

## Career chronology

- **Orezone AIF states officer since May 2017; exact day not established.: Orezone Gold Corporation** — President, CEO and Director. [Management biographies](<https://orezone.com/company/management/>) (Patrick Downey biography)

- **Dates not independently established: Elgin Mining** — President, CEO and director. [Management biographies](<https://orezone.com/company/management/>) (issuer management biography, Patrick Downey)

- **Dates not independently established: Aura Minerals** — President, CEO and director. [Management biographies](<https://orezone.com/company/management/>) (issuer management biography, Patrick Downey)

- **Dates not independently established: Viceroy Exploration** — President, CEO and director. [Management biographies](<https://orezone.com/company/management/>) (issuer management biography, Patrick Downey)

## Education and qualifications

### Issuer-reported education and credentials [exec-downey-education]

Qualification dates unverified · issuer reported · low materiality

The issuer reports: Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Engineering from Queen’s University. Independent verification was not obtained.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Claims are attributed to the issuer, and no independent credential verification is asserted.

**Relevance:** Relevant to professional background.

[Management biographies](<https://orezone.com/company/management/>) (leadership biography for Patrick Downey)

## Contributions and company outcomes

### First stage commissioned and second mine acquired [ore-delivery]

2025–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Orezone declared commercial production on its first Bomboré hard-rock stage in January 2026 and closed its Casa Berardi purchase in March 2026; its 2025 production of 110,014 ounces was below its stated 115,000–130,000 ounce target.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Downey was chief executive; the outcome was delivered by the company and wider teams, and direct individual contribution is not quantified.

**Relevance:** Relevant to operating delivery and capital allocation.

[2025 annual information form](<https://wp-orezone-2025.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/media/2026/04/AIF-December-31-2025-FINAL-2-1.pdf>) (PDF p3; acquisition and commercial-production summary); [2026 management information circular](<https://company-announcements.afr.com/asx/ore/9d322fb5-5415-11f1-a099-0218e3fc19a7.pdf>) (PDF pp22–24; production target and actual)

## Industrial safety

### Contractor fatality at Bomboré [ore-safety]

May 2025; review 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

A contractor employee died in a vehicle-related incident at the hard-rock construction site on 8 May 2025. Orezone said it was investigating with contractors and authorities; the 2026 circular reports the incident and reduced the safety-related incentive assessment.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Downey was CEO; no personal involvement or individual fault is established.

**Relevance:** Relevant to corporate safety oversight and investigation follow-through.

[Fatality at hard-rock plant construction site](<https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/05/09/3078556/0/en/orezone-gold-reports-fatality-at-stage-i-hard-rock-plant-construction-site.html>) (Fatality announcement, opening paragraphs); [2026 management information circular](<https://company-announcements.afr.com/asx/ore/9d322fb5-5415-11f1-a099-0218e3fc19a7.pdf>) (PDF pp23–24, 2025 safety KPI)

## Suitability for the current role

### Experience relevant to the role [exec-downey-fit]

Reported career and current role · analyst inference · low materiality

Issuer reports CEO roles at Elgin Mining and Aura Minerals and engineering roles with Anglo American. Relevance to the current role is an analytical inference; issuer-reported history is not independent confirmation of personal contribution.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Role-fit judgment; career dates, credentials and individual contributions remain incomplete.

**Relevance:** Relevant to the responsibilities of President, CEO and Director.

[Management biographies](<https://orezone.com/company/management/>) (Patrick Downey biography)

## Evidence gaps

- Independent credentials and complete prior-employer dates and outcomes are not established.

- This limited open-source screening does not exhaust regulatory, court, safety, fraud or environmental records in the relevant jurisdictions.

- A broad person-name query was reused across multiple topic headings; it does not establish that each topic received a separate targeted search.