This article from sept 2020 makes you think there is no way...

This article from sept 2020 makes you think there is no way Kerry Harmanis would take a public role in a junior for no reason.


AFR article

Harmanis re-emerges to roll up his sleeves at Talisman

Myriam RobinColumnist
Sep 16, 2020 – 5.24pm

Jubilee Mines founder Kerry Harmanis was once happy to rail against the excesses of corporate governance-driven box-ticking while extolling the virtues of meditation.
But since selling the company he'd built to Xstrata for $3.1 billion in 2007, at the height of a nickel price boom, he's kept a fairly low profile. And hey, with $300 million or so of sale proceeds to enjoy, who could blame him.

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Two months back however, the Rich Lister became the chairman of gold junior Talisman Mines, of which he's long owned 18 per cent. It's his first public company role in 13 years.
And he's been busy since. Talisman's long-serving CEO Don Madden resigned two weeks ago to pursue "a new career opportunity", with immediate effect.
His CFO Shaun Vokes is replacing him on an interim basis. With a mandate, the company said, "to work closely with the company's recently appointed chairman ... and his advisory team on the identification and evaluation of new project opportunities".

Talisman's share price, for what it's worth, has trended down in the past few years, despite gold's spectacular rally in recent months.
Whatever prompted his assumption of the chairmanship, it certainly seems like Harmanis intends to be highly involved. And all for free, given he's elected not to be paid for the role. Do you reckon he just got bored?



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