Full background report
Dan Brearley
Vice President, Development & Operations
Career chronology
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since 2026: Felix Gold Limited — Vice President, Development & Operations. Senior Executive Appointments (Corporate directory or key management personnel disclosure)
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from 2025: Chalice Mining Ltd — Chief Operating Officer. Senior Executive Appointments (Appointment release: previously COO at Chalice; its FY25 annual report records zero LTIs, fatalities, high-potential events and significant environmental incidents for FY25, but does not attribute those outcomes to him individually.)
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before Chalice: Evolution Mining Ltd — General Manager, Projects. Senior Executive Appointments (Appointment release: previously GM Projects; states leadership on A$1.3bn Pueblo Viejo expansion at Barrick.)
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2026: Felix Gold Ltd — Vice President, Development & Operations. Senior Executive Appointments (Issuer appointment release and current team page; role overseeing development/operations.)
Contributions and company outcomes
Prior employer reported no recordable serious safety/environment events in FY25
FY2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality
Chalice FY25 annual report reports zero LTI, fatalities, high-potential events, significant environmental incidents. Brearley had been appointed COO in 2025; no claim that he personally caused the outcomes.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The source establishes the executive’s role during or around the event; individual causation is not inferred unless the cited record directly says so.
Relevance: Adds role-specific career, delivery or governance context; distinguish company-level outcomes from individual responsibility.
Annual Report to shareholders (Chalice FY25 annual report reports zero LTI, fatalities, high-potential events, significant environmental incidents. Brearley had been appointed COO in 2025; no claim that he personally caused the outcomes.)
Suitability for the current role
Limited public evidence for role fit
since 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality
The issuer identifies Dan Brearley as Vice President, Development & Operations. The cited source establishes the disclosed role and any stated appointment date. This source alone does not establish attributable prior-employer outcomes, verified credentials or independently benchmarked delivery. This is an evidence limitation, not an adverse personal finding.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. No personal outcome responsibility is inferred from the title alone.
Relevance: The role is relevant to the company’s current leadership assessment; fuller role-fit comparison requires verified chronology and outcome evidence.
Senior Executive Appointments (Corporate directory, key management personnel or appointment disclosure; role and date)
Evidence gaps
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Prior-employer chronology and qualifications are based mainly on issuer disclosures; independent employment and credential verification was not available in the reviewed public record.
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The documented name/employer searches are not an exhaustive court, ASIC, sanctions, safety or environmental registry check; no relevant adverse finding surfaced in the searches documented.
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Company-level outcomes are not attributed personally without a source connecting the executive to the action or result.