# Daniel Egya-Mensah

Chief Executive Officer, Perseus Mining Ghana

## Career chronology

- **CEO from July 2025; previously Edikan GM: Perseus Mining Ghana** — CEO; previously Edikan General Manager. [Edikan leadership transition](<https://www.miningweekly.com/article/perseus-announces-leadership-changes-at-ghana-operations-2025-06-25>) (Leadership transition)

- **Acting general manager as at July 2018; full dates unknown: Newmont Ghana** — General Manager, Akyem. [Akyem stakeholder obligations](<https://www.newmont.com/investors/news-release/news-details/2018/Newmont-Ghana-remains-committed-to-honouring-obligations-with-Akyems-stakeholders/default.aspx>) (2018 statement identifying acting general manager)

## Environmental record

### Akyem land and blasting concerns at prior employer [egya-land]

2018 · issuer reported · medium materiality

In 2018 Newmont reported local farmers’ demands for additional land compensation and alleged blast-related building cracks at Akyem; it described its compensation framework and offered dialogue. Final independent resolution was not established.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Newmont identified Egya-Mensah as acting Akyem general manager. A community complaint and company response do not establish fault.

**Relevance:** Prior mine stakeholder and land-access experience.

[Akyem stakeholder obligations](<https://www.newmont.com/investors/news-release/news-details/2018/Newmont-Ghana-remains-committed-to-honouring-obligations-with-Akyems-stakeholders/default.aspx>) (Stakeholder concerns, company response and acting general manager)

## Evidence gaps

- Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

- Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

- Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.
