David Taylor

Career chronology

• Date not independently established; role reported in issuer source: Capstone Copper — Vice President, Health, Safety & Environment. Senior and corporate leadership (Corporate Leadership Team, David Taylor)

Education and qualifications

Role history and reported qualifications

through October 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

The issuer announced his February 2024 appointment in health and safety and reported prior HSE work at Stantec, Golder, Stratcon (as spelled in the issuer filing), Sierra Gorda and SNC-Lavalin.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Positions and education are reported by issuers; independent credential verification is incomplete.

Relevance: Relevant role history, with limits on dates and credential verification.

Q1 2024 MD&A (Management Additions); Senior and corporate leadership (David Taylor)

Industrial safety

Four commuting deaths and company labour fine

June 2023–January 2025 · documented · high materiality

Four Mantoverde workers died in a June 2023 road crash while returning home. In January 2025 a Copiapó appeals court upheld a 60 UTM labour fine against Mantoverde for failure to enforce employee-transport safeguards. The court said the labour-fine dispute did not determine civil accident causation.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. Taylor joined Capstone on 20 February 2024, after the accident. The cited labour ruling concerns the employer; the reviewed sources do not establish his personal responsibility or civil causation.

Relevance: A material company safety matter, distinct from on-site fatality metrics.

Four Mantoverde employees die in journey crash (7 June 2023 accident report and company statement); Copiapó court upholds labour fine (22 January 2025 appellate decision summary); Q1 2024 MD&A (p. 10, Management Additions, David Taylor appointment)

Environmental record

Mantos Blancos regulatory process remains ongoing

2022–October 2026 · documented · medium materiality

Chile’s SMA rejected Mantos Copper’s proposed compliance plan in August 2024 within a proceeding opened in 2022. Capstone reports that the operator appealed the rejection but later withdrew that appeal. The SMA register listed the proceeding ongoing when checked at the cutoff.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The proceeding concerns the operator; the reviewed sources do not establish this executive’s personal fault.

Relevance: Relevant to environmental and governance oversight, without inferring wrongdoing.

SMA rejects Mantos Copper compliance plan (13 August 2024 rejection); Mantos Blancos enforcement file D-064-2022 (D-064-2022 status and documents); 2025 sustainability report, filed copy (Business Integrity, regulatory proceedings)

Mantoverde process-water releases

2025, disclosed June 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Capstone reports two 2025 releases from the tailings facility downstream slope during construction, totaling one million litres of process water. It says they were reported, investigated and resolved with no permanent environmental impacts identified; independent incident records were not obtained.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The company reports the incidents; no personal action or fault is established.

Relevance: Relevant to tailings and environmental oversight.

2025 sustainability report, filed copy (Tailings and Waste, 2025 site performance; Business Integrity incidents)

Evidence gaps

• Independent identity, career and credential verification remains incomplete.

• Targeted searches do not establish absence of adverse records or exhaust applicable court, regulatory and local-language sources.

• The full appointment and current role history, previous employment and credentials require additional corroboration.

• The prior per-person topic search log could not be verified against retained execution records. Topic coverage and absence of adverse records are not established.