Patrick Downey

Career chronology

• Orezone AIF states officer since May 2017; exact day not established.: Orezone Gold Corporation — President, CEO and Director. Management biographies (Patrick Downey biography)

• Dates not independently established: Elgin Mining — President, CEO and director. Management biographies (issuer management biography, Patrick Downey)

• Dates not independently established: Aura Minerals — President, CEO and director. Management biographies (issuer management biography, Patrick Downey)

• Dates not independently established: Viceroy Exploration — President, CEO and director. Management biographies (issuer management biography, Patrick Downey)

Education and qualifications

Issuer-reported education and credentials

Qualification dates unverified · issuer reported · low materiality

The issuer reports: Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Engineering from Queen’s University. Independent verification was not obtained.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Claims are attributed to the issuer, and no independent credential verification is asserted.

Relevance: Relevant to professional background.

Management biographies (leadership biography for Patrick Downey)

Contributions and company outcomes

First stage commissioned and second mine acquired

2025–2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Orezone declared commercial production on its first Bomboré hard-rock stage in January 2026 and closed its Casa Berardi purchase in March 2026; its 2025 production of 110,014 ounces was below its stated 115,000–130,000 ounce target.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Downey was chief executive; the outcome was delivered by the company and wider teams, and direct individual contribution is not quantified.

Relevance: Relevant to operating delivery and capital allocation.

2025 annual information form (PDF p3; acquisition and commercial-production summary); 2026 management information circular (PDF pp22–24; production target and actual)

Industrial safety

Contractor fatality at Bomboré

May 2025; review 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

A contractor employee died in a vehicle-related incident at the hard-rock construction site on 8 May 2025. Orezone said it was investigating with contractors and authorities; the 2026 circular reports the incident and reduced the safety-related incentive assessment.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Downey was CEO; no personal involvement or individual fault is established.

Relevance: Relevant to corporate safety oversight and investigation follow-through.

Fatality at hard-rock plant construction site (Fatality announcement, opening paragraphs); 2026 management information circular (PDF pp23–24, 2025 safety KPI)

Suitability for the current role

Experience relevant to the role

Reported career and current role · analyst inference · low materiality

Issuer reports CEO roles at Elgin Mining and Aura Minerals and engineering roles with Anglo American. Relevance to the current role is an analytical inference; issuer-reported history is not independent confirmation of personal contribution.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role-fit judgment; career dates, credentials and individual contributions remain incomplete.

Relevance: Relevant to the responsibilities of President, CEO and Director.

Management biographies (Patrick Downey biography)

Evidence gaps

• Independent credentials and complete prior-employer dates and outcomes are not established.

• This limited open-source screening does not exhaust regulatory, court, safety, fraud or environmental records in the relevant jurisdictions.

• A broad person-name query was reused across multiple topic headings; it does not establish that each topic received a separate targeted search.