Full background report
Gavin Harris
Chief Operating Officer
Career chronology
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From July 2025: Resolute Mining — Chief Operating Officer. Management changes (p. 1)
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September 2019 to 2025: Centamin / AngloGold Ashanti — Sukari senior operational roles, then general manager. Sukari mine technical report (p. 22, positions at Sukari)
Education and qualifications
Issuer-reported qualifications
Issuer report 2024–2026 · issuer reported · low materiality
The issuer reports BEng (Hons) and Chartered Engineer status. Independent confirmation of degrees and memberships was not obtained.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The issuer is the source of the qualification descriptions.
Relevance: Relevant to assessing role background, subject to verification.
2025 Annual Report (PDF p. 13, leadership biographies)
Contributions and company outcomes
Sukari operating experience
2019–2025 · issuer reported · medium materiality
The company credited Harris with contributing to Sukari’s 2024 output of approximately 481,000 ounces and projects during his general-manager tenure. AngloGold’s technical report confirms his site roles and responsibilities.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Resolute attributes a contribution to him, but output and safety performance reflect the wider site team and circumstances.
Relevance: Relevant experience operating a large gold mine.
Management changes (p. 1 Sukari experience and 2024 outcome); Sukari mine technical report (p. 22 site responsibilities)
Business failures and setbacks
Syama operational disruption
2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality
The September 2026 update reduced expected 2026 Syama output after mining, supply and processing disruptions; the group’s Q3 report recorded 44,398 ounces from both mines.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Harris was COO; outcomes reflect site teams and supply and security conditions, without evidence of personal causation.
Relevance: Tests operating delivery in a difficult setting.
Syama operational update (Production outlook and operating constraints); September 2026 quarterly activities report (Q3 production table)
Industrial safety
Increase in Syama lost-time injuries
2024–2025 · issuer reported · high materiality
Resolute reported that Syama lost-time injuries increased from one in 2024 to nine in 2025; it reported no fatalities at the group in 2025 and described remedial safety initiatives.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Harris became COO on 1 July 2025; full-year results include six months before his appointment and no individual fault is established.
Relevance: Material safety-oversight context.
2025 Sustainability Report (printed pp. 48–49 safety performance table and response); Management changes (p. 1 effective date)
Evidence gaps
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Independent educational and professional credential checks were not obtained.
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The broad web search is not comprehensive; named-employer and person-specific fraud, safety, environmental, legal and governance checks remain incomplete.
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Issuer biographies do not establish all earlier role dates or individual contributions to company-wide outcomes.
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The actual status and investigation outcomes of individual site incidents remain unverified, and the 2025 safety numbers cover pre- and post-appointment periods.