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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Paul Harris

Chief Operating Officer

Career chronology

  • Current at 9 October 2026: Aeris Resources Limited — Chief Operating Officer. Aeris Resources Limited Annual Report 2026 (directors report and remuneration report)

  • COO appointed 30 Dec 2022; Wassa operations responsibility documented by 24 May 2023: Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining Co. — COO; later responsible for Wassa operations / CEO role for Wassa. Appointment of Paul Harris as COO (appointment); Management changes and Wassa operational review (Wassa leadership review)

  • Prior roles; exact sequence/dates not stated: MMG, Redpath, BHP and Rio Tinto — Mining operational leadership. Leadership (leadership bio)

  • Prior role; dates not stated: Lane Xang Minerals — President. Leadership (leadership bio)

Contributions and company outcomes

Wassa production recovered after management review during his operating remit

Dec 2022–2024 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Chifeng states Harris assumed responsibility for Wassa operations/management in May 2023 and ordered production recalibration and cost reductions after acknowledging operational-management mistakes since H2 2022. Official Ghana Minerals Commission annual data show Wassa production at 170,726 oz in 2022, 165,884 oz in 2023 and 187,281 oz in 2024. The 2022 decline predates Harris’s Chifeng COO appointment; 2023/24 outcomes overlap his Wassa remit but are not solely attributable to him.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Employer documents establish responsibility for management response; they also attribute disruption to operational conditions and do not isolate individual causality.

Relevance: Relevant to operating turnarounds; outcome trend is mixed in the first year and improved by 2024.

Appointment of Paul Harris as COO (appointment and Q3 2022 context); Management changes and Wassa operational review (management review and remit); Production data (Wassa annual production rows 2022–2024)

Suitability for the current role

International mine operations experience is relevant to COO role

Career through cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality

Leadership biography documents 27+ years’ mining experience, operational positions across several miners, and geological-engineering education. His Chifeng case includes responsibility for a turnaround after acknowledged operating problems, followed by improved Wassa output in 2024; attribution remains shared and company-reported.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Prior roles and results are reported by employer; individual causal contribution is not independently established.

Relevance: High role relevance to mine operations, with a mixed initial and subsequent operating trajectory.

Leadership (leadership biography); Management changes and Wassa operational review (Wassa review); Production data (Wassa production data)

Evidence gaps

  • Chronology and source-backed individual outcomes at earlier employers remain incomplete.

  • Person-specific regulator, safety, environmental and professional-discipline review is not exhaustive; no sourced personal adverse finding is asserted from the queries documented.

  • Issuer biographies and results are not independently verified performance or credential checks.

  • Chifeng reported operating mistakes from H2 2022 before Harris’s 30 December 2022 COO appointment; Wassa operating accountability is documented from 24 May 2023. Ghana regulator production data support trend but not individual causality.