Full background report
Daniel Egya-Mensah
Chief Executive Officer, Perseus Mining Ghana
Career chronology
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CEO from July 2025; previously Edikan GM: Perseus Mining Ghana — CEO; previously Edikan General Manager. Edikan leadership transition (Leadership transition)
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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
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Independent verification of qualifications and professional memberships remains incomplete.
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Person-specific court, regulator, fraud and prior-employer searches are not exhaustive; open-web research is not a clearance.
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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.