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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Fran Summerhayes

Chief Financial Officer

Career chronology

  • From 2025-09-15: Evolution Mining — Chief Financial Officer. 2026 Annual Report (2026 annual report, leadership biography)

  • Dates not fully established: BHP — Vice President Finance, Minerals Americas. 2026 Annual Report (2026 annual report, leadership biography)

  • Dates not fully established: BHP — Head of Finance, iron ore. 2026 Annual Report (2026 annual report, leadership biography)

Education and qualifications

Qualifications disclosed

Qualifications reported in cited sources · issuer reported · low materiality

The 2026 annual report says Summerhayes holds a Bachelor of Business and Accounting, master’s in financial analysis and postgraduate supply-chain certificate; institutions and credentials were not independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Education is reported by cited issuers or the person; records were not independently confirmed.

Relevance: Evidence of relevant training, subject to verification.

2026 Annual Report (Biography and qualifications)

Contributions and company outcomes

FY2026 results and Mungari expansion

FY2025–FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Evolution reported FY2026 statutory net profit A$1.475 billion versus A$926 million, and Mungari production rose from 135,000 oz to 186,000 oz after expansion commissioning. Group average realised gold price rose about 40%, an important contributor to profit.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. This is a company result; executive-specific causal contributions were not established.

Relevance: Operating and financial delivery during tenure.

FY26 Full Year Financial Results and Final Dividend (FY26 performance and Mungari operations); 2026 Annual Report (Financial report, operating results and key metrics)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant experience

Career through 31 October 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality

Analyst inference: CFO commenced 15 September 2025; previously BHP Vice President Finance Minerals Americas and BHP iron-ore finance head; started career at PwC. BHP directly identified her in the Americas role in November 2024.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Experience is based on dated issuer material; role fit is an analytical judgment, not proof of individual contribution.

Relevance: Relevant to execution of the current role.

2026 Annual Report (2026 annual report, leadership biographies, printed pp.14–16); Chile copper site tour presentations and speeches (Chile copper site tour speeches, printed p.38)

Evidence gaps

  • Independent verification of stated qualifications, licences and memberships was not obtained.

  • Prior-employer histories, local court and regulator records and individual contributions to company outcomes remain incomplete; this is not a clearance.