# Rob Henderson

VP Technical Services

## Career chronology

- **AIF identifies officer since 3 January 2023.: Orezone Gold Corporation** — VP Technical Services. [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 pp59–61, Rob Henderson)

- **CEO from 21 April 2020 through resignation 25 February 2022: Great Panther Mining** — President and CEO. [Great Panther announces CEO resignation](<https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1300050/000127956922000303/ex991.htm>) (2022 CEO resignation announcement); [Great Panther announces new CEO Rob Henderson](<https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/great-panther-announces-new-ceo-rob-henderson-three-new-directors-including-david-garofalo-as-chair-and-meghan-brown-as-vp-investor-relations-301044022.html>) (21 April 2020 CEO appointment)

## Education and qualifications

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

Qualification dates unverified · issuer reported · low materiality

The issuer reports: MBA and BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town; professional engineer. 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 Rob Henderson)

## Business failures and setbacks

### Tucano operational and environmental setbacks [ore-panther]

2021–2022 · disputed · medium materiality

Great Panther temporarily suspended UCS mining in 2021 after pit-wall movement; the Amapá environmental agency issued three notices totalling BRL 50 million after a fish mortality investigation. The company contested causation and sought cancellation. Henderson stepped down as CEO in February 2022; Great Panther entered bankruptcy in December 2022, after his departure.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Henderson was CEO during the 2021 issues but had left before bankruptcy. Individual causation is not established and the notices’ final outcome is unverified.

**Relevance:** A prior operating and environmental oversight episode relevant to the technical-services role.

[2021 management discussion and analysis](<https://minedocs.com/22/Great-Panther-Mining-MDA-12312021.pdf>) (UCS geotechnical and Notices of Infraction sections, pp4–5); [Great Panther announces CEO resignation](<https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1300050/000127956922000303/ex991.htm>) (Resignation announcement); [Great Panther voluntary bankruptcy](<https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/great-panther-makes-voluntary-assignment-into-bankruptcy-under-the-bankruptcy-and-insolvency-act-canada--851917942.html>) (16 December bankruptcy announcement); [Great Panther announces new CEO Rob Henderson](<https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/great-panther-announces-new-ceo-rob-henderson-three-new-directors-including-david-garofalo-as-chair-and-meghan-brown-as-vp-investor-relations-301044022.html>) (21 April 2020 CEO appointment)

## Suitability for the current role

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

Reported career and current role · analyst inference · low materiality

Issuer reports senior roles at Great Panther, Amerigo, Kinross and others; Great Panther confirms CEO until February 2022. 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 VP Technical Services.

[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 pp59–61, Rob Henderson)

## 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.
