PERSEUS MINING LIMITED

Career chronology

• From 1 October 2025: Perseus Mining — Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Managing director transition (Pages 1–2)

• Newcrest from 2008, executive team from 2012; COO Americas by 2022: Newcrest Mining — COO Americas, then interim global COO. Managing director transition (Page 2; Newcrest career)

Contributions and company outcomes

Perseus production and project progress

FY2026 and September 2026 quarter · issuer reported · medium materiality

Perseus reported 404,998 ounces of gold produced in FY2026 and US$480.5 million profit after tax. In the September quarter it reported 92,551 ounces produced and the start of commercial production at Yaouré CMA Underground. Higher gold prices and operating conditions affect financial results.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Jones was CEO during the period; individual contributions are not separately quantified.

Relevance: Company delivery and project execution under executive oversight.

FY2026 annual report (PDF page 3 FY26 highlights; PDF page 2 financial results); September 2026 quarterly report (Page 1 production and commercial production)

Industrial safety

2022 Brucejack contractor fatality at Newcrest

October 2022 and January 2023 · issuer reported · high materiality

A contractor died in an October 2022 incident at Brucejack. Newcrest reported a temporary suspension and safety review. Separate 2022 and 2023 Newcrest releases identify Jones as COO Americas.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Jones held an Americas executive role, but no personal involvement or fault is established.

Relevance: Material safety outcome during prior leadership tenure.

Newcrest March 2022 quarterly report (March 2022 quarterly release, technical information: COO Americas and Brucejack reviewer); Newcrest December 2022 quarter (December 2022 quarterly release, Brucejack safety and corporate update)

Two Bagoé contractor deaths

January 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

Perseus reported that two Binkadi ore-haulage contractor employees died following an offsite vehicle accident near Bagoé in January 2026. Investigation findings and final outcome were not found.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Jones was Perseus CEO; no evidence establishes his personal fault or cause of the accident.

Relevance: Contractor transport safety under company oversight.

Bagoé offsite vehicle accident update (January 19 update, paragraphs 1–2); Interim financial report December 2025 (Subsequent events: ore haulage contractor and two deaths)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.

Career chronology

• From 1 June 2026: Perseus Mining — Chief Operating Officer. Chief operating officer appointment (Page 1)

• Prior role, exact dates unknown: AngloGold Ashanti — Obuasi general manager. Chief operating officer appointment (Page 1)

• Prior to joining Perseus, exact dates unknown: Appian Capital Base Metals — Chief Operating Officer. Chief operating officer appointment (Page 1)

Education and qualifications

Reported professional qualifications

As reported in sources · issuer reported · low materiality

Perseus reports Bachelor of Engineering in Mining and Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Queensland.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Credentials are reported and are not independently verified.

Relevance: Relevant technical or professional background.

Perseus leadership biographies (Professional biography and qualification)

Industrial safety

Bagoé deaths preceded current COO appointment

January–June 2026 · documented · medium materiality

Two Binkadi contractor workers died after an offsite vehicle accident near Bagoé in January 2026. Bickley commenced as Perseus COO on 1 June 2026, after the incident.

Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The incident preceded Bickley’s appointment; no personal responsibility is suggested.

Relevance: Relevant inherited safety context for an incoming COO.

Bagoé offsite vehicle accident update (January 19 update); Chief operating officer appointment (Page 1 commencement date); Interim financial report December 2025 (Subsequent events: ore haulage contractor and two deaths)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.

Career chronology

• From 2020; start by 1 November: Perseus Mining — Chief Financial Officer. CFO appointment (Page 1)

• 2017–2019: Resolute Mining — Chief Financial Officer. Perseus leadership biographies (Leadership profile; prior role)

Education and qualifications

Reported professional qualifications

As reported in sources · issuer reported · low materiality

Perseus reports a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Accounting from the University of Witwatersrand and chartered-accountant status.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Credentials are reported and are not independently verified.

Relevance: Relevant technical or professional background.

Perseus leadership biographies (Professional biography and qualification)

Personal achievements

Contribution to Nyanzaga agreements

August 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Perseus credited de Bruin with leading its negotiating team for the Nyanzaga agreements signed with Tanzania in August 2025. The mine remained under construction at the October 2026 cutoff.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The issuer named de Bruin as the team lead; individual financial or negotiating contribution is not quantified.

Relevance: Direct evidence of cross-border negotiation and execution.

Nyanzaga agreements (Page 2: named negotiating team and agreement)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.

Career chronology

• From 2013: Perseus Mining — General Counsel and Company Secretary. Perseus leadership biographies (Executive biography)

Education and qualifications

Reported professional qualifications

As reported in sources · issuer reported · low materiality

Perseus reports UWA Bachelor of Laws, Leiden Master of Laws and a governance diploma.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Credentials are reported and are not independently verified.

Relevance: Relevant technical or professional background.

Perseus leadership biographies (Professional biography and qualification)

Personal achievements

Contribution to Nyanzaga agreements

August 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Perseus named Bosboom as an assistant to the negotiating team that executed Nyanzaga agreements with Tanzania in August 2025.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The issuer identified Bosboom in the team, but did not quantify his individual contribution.

Relevance: Direct evidence of cross-border negotiation and execution.

Nyanzaga agreements (Page 2: named negotiating team and agreement)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.

Career chronology

• From January 2025: Perseus Mining — Chief Development Officer. Perseus leadership biographies (Executive biography)

• Prior role, dates not established: Gold Fields — Vice President, Strategic Planning. Perseus leadership biographies (Executive biography)

Education and qualifications

Reported professional qualifications

As reported in sources · issuer reported · low materiality

Perseus reports mining engineering and mineral economics degrees from the Western Australian School of Mines, an MBA and an AusIMM professional designation.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Credentials are reported and are not independently verified.

Relevance: Relevant technical or professional background.

Perseus leadership biographies (Professional biography and qualification)

Contributions and company outcomes

Underground mine achieved commercial production

July 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Perseus reported commercial production at Yaouré CMA Underground from 1 July 2026. Its leadership biography assigns exploration, project development and technical services to Ricciardone.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The company identifies his development remit; the specific contribution to this milestone is not quantified.

Relevance: Relevant project-development outcome.

Perseus leadership biographies (Ricciardone executive biography); September 2026 quarterly report (Page 1 commercial production)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.

Career chronology

• From 2023; exact start date of current title not established: Perseus Mining — Chief Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Officer. Perseus leadership biographies (Executive biography)

• Prior to Perseus; exact dates unknown: Resolute Mining — People and safety roles. Perseus leadership biographies (Executive biography)

Education and qualifications

Reported professional qualifications

As reported in sources · issuer reported · low materiality

Perseus reports a master’s degree in international relations from La Sorbonne.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Credentials are reported and are not independently verified.

Relevance: Relevant technical or professional background.

Perseus leadership biographies (Professional biography and qualification)

Governance and interests

Community grievances and reported remediation

FY2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Perseus reported 115 community grievances in FY2025, 52% resolved at the reporting date, with most in Ghana involving property damage and land compensation. The figures and responses are company reported.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Pollard held senior communications and sustainability roles; individual handling of grievances was not established.

Relevance: Community engagement and land access are material to operating performance.

2025 sustainability report (Printed page 33 community grievances)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.

Career chronology

• CEO from July 2025; previously Edikan GM: Perseus Mining Ghana — CEO; previously Edikan General Manager. Edikan leadership transition (Leadership transition)

• Acting general manager as at July 2018; full dates unknown: Newmont Ghana — General Manager, Akyem. Akyem stakeholder obligations (2018 statement identifying acting general manager)

Environmental record

Akyem land and blasting concerns at prior employer

2018 · issuer reported · medium materiality

In 2018 Newmont reported local farmers’ demands for additional land compensation and alleged blast-related building cracks at Akyem; it described its compensation framework and offered dialogue. Final independent resolution was not established.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Newmont identified Egya-Mensah as acting Akyem general manager. A community complaint and company response do not establish fault.

Relevance: Prior mine stakeholder and land-access experience.

Akyem stakeholder obligations (Stakeholder concerns, company response and acting general manager)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.

Career chronology

• General manager from July 2025: Perseus Mining Ghana — General Manager Edikan; previously mining and technical services manager. Edikan leadership transition (Leadership transition)

Contributions and company outcomes

Edikan operations under local management

September 2026 quarter · issuer reported · medium materiality

Perseus reported 35,830 ounces of gold produced at Edikan in the September 2026 quarter, lower than the preceding quarter, while it described production as in line with its plan.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Oduro was reported as Edikan general manager in October; individual causal contribution is not measured.

Relevance: Operational results for the site he manages.

Edikan general manager warns of road encroachment (Named Edikan general manager, October 14); September 2026 quarterly report (Page 3 Edikan quarterly performance)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.

Career chronology

• 2026; exact appointment and cutoff continuity unconfirmed: Perseus Mining — General Manager, Nyanzaga Gold Project. Tanzania Nyanzaga investment meeting (Report of Tanzania meeting)

Contributions and company outcomes

Nyanzaga project construction progress

September 2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Perseus reported Nyanzaga construction was 88.4% complete at the September 2026 quarter-end and targeted first production by January 2027; no first gold had yet been delivered at that date.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. A 2026 report names Cavedon as construction general manager; his individual contribution is not separately measured.

Relevance: Shows project progress and the remaining commissioning task.

Tanzania Nyanzaga investment meeting (Nyanzaga meeting and general manager); September 2026 quarterly report (Page 1 progress and first-gold target)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Exact appointment date and independent confirmation of the precise role at the 31 October 2026 cutoff remain incomplete.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.

Career chronology

• Director general from 2022 according to profile; cutoff continuity not independently dated: Perseus Mining Côte d’Ivoire — Country Manager and Director General. Yacouba Diarra profile (Career profile)

Education and qualifications

Reported professional qualifications

As reported in sources · self reported · low materiality

A secondary profile reports doctoral and mining administration qualifications; institution and award have not been independently verified.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Credentials are reported and are not independently verified.

Relevance: Relevant technical or professional background.

Yacouba Diarra profile (Professional biography and qualification)

Industrial safety

2022 Yaouré contractor fatality

June 2022 · documented · high materiality

In June 2022 a contractor employee was fatally injured at Yaouré. AIP reported Diarra expressed condolences on the company’s behalf and said authorities opened an investigation. Perseus later reported an independently led investigation concluded that an incompletely seated tyre locking ring was propelled by escaping air; it described subsequent safety actions.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Diarra was described as country director; a fatality and a company response do not establish his individual responsibility.

Relevance: Material safety outcome in the regional portfolio.

Yaouré workplace death (June 29 reporting, death, response and investigation); 2022 Sustainable Development Report (Fatality at Yaouré section, independently led investigation and safety response)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Exact appointment date and independent confirmation of the precise role at the 31 October 2026 cutoff remain incomplete.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.

Career chronology

• Named in August 2025 agreement; 2026 country-manager title also reported: Perseus / Sotta Mining — Tanzania CFO and country manager. Nyanzaga agreements (Page 2)

• 2016–2023 per secondary profile: Tanga Cement — Financial Controller and Head of Finance. Isaac Lupokela profile (Profile chronology)

Education and qualifications

Reported professional qualifications

As reported in sources · self reported · low materiality

A secondary profile reports a University of Dar es Salaam commerce degree; the university has not independently confirmed it.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Credentials are reported and are not independently verified.

Relevance: Relevant technical or professional background.

Isaac Lupokela profile (Professional biography and qualification)

Personal achievements

Contribution to Nyanzaga agreements

August 2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Perseus named Lupokela, then described as Tanzanian CFO and country manager, as assisting its team for the Nyanzaga agreements with Tanzania in August 2025.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The issuer identified Lupokela as assisting the team, without quantifying his individual contribution.

Relevance: Direct evidence of cross-border negotiation and execution.

Nyanzaga agreements (Page 2: named negotiating team and agreement)

Suitability for the current role

Finance background supports country role

Through August 2025 · analyst inference · medium materiality

A regional finance profile reports prior controller and finance roles and a commerce qualification. The named issuer release identifies his participation in the Tanzanian agreement team.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role fit is an analytical judgment, and prior qualifications and dates require independent verification.

Relevance: Relevant to local finance and stakeholder coordination.

Isaac Lupokela profile (Career profile); Nyanzaga agreements (Page 2 named agreement team)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.

• Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.

• Exact appointment date and independent confirmation of the precise role at the 31 October 2026 cutoff remain incomplete.

• Original queries were limited and sometimes combined people or topics; dedicated person-by-person and prior-employer records searches, including adverse topics and outcomes, were not completed.