# Gareth Withers VP Finance ## Career chronology - **AIF gives 17 January 2024 officer date, not his date of joining Orezone.: Orezone Gold Corporation** — VP Finance. [2025 annual information form]() (PDF pp59–61, Gareth Withers) - **Dates not independently established: Ernst & Young** — Senior Manager. [Management biographies]() (issuer management biography, Gareth Withers) ## Education and qualifications ### Issuer-reported education and credentials [exec-withers-education] Qualification dates unverified · issuer reported · low materiality The issuer reports: Bachelor of Commerce (first-class honours) from Edinburgh and chartered accountant designations in Scotland and Canada. 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]() (leadership biography for Gareth Withers) ## Suitability for the current role ### Experience relevant to the role [exec-withers-fit] Reported career and current role · analyst inference · low materiality Issuer reports Ernst & Young senior manager and Orezone finance since April 2019. 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 Finance. [2025 annual information form]() (PDF pp59–61, Gareth Withers) ## 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.