Full background report
Jacob Ricciardone
Chief Development Officer
Career chronology
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From January 2025: Perseus Mining — Chief Development Officer. Perseus leadership biographies (Executive biography)
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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
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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.