# Johan van Jaarsveld Chief Technical Officer ## Career chronology - **2024-03-01 onward: BHP Group** — Chief Technical Officer. [Johan van Jaarsveld]() (Johan van Jaarsveld biography); [Annual Report 2026]() (physical p.106, executive leadership; p.112, company secretary); [Annual Report 2026]() (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary) - **September 2020–April 2024: BHP** — Chief Development Officer. [Johan van Jaarsveld]() (Career and experience); [Annual Report 2026]() (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary) - **Before joining BHP in 2016; dates unconfirmed: Barrick Gold** — Executive role. [Johan van Jaarsveld]() (Career and experience); [Annual Report 2026]() (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary) - **Before BHP; dates unconfirmed: Goldman Sachs and Blackstone Group** — Executive roles. [Johan van Jaarsveld]() (Career and experience); [Annual Report 2026]() (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary) ## Education and qualifications ### Reported professional qualifications [jaarsveld_education] Career background · issuer reported · low materiality Chemical engineering degree, applied finance master and doctorate in extractive metallurgy, issuer-reported. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Reported by the issuer; credentials and membership were not independently checked. **Relevance:** Professional training relevant to the role. [Johan van Jaarsveld]() (Qualifications and experience) ## Suitability for the current role ### Experience relevant to current remit [jaarsveld_fit] Career through October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality BHP Chief Technical Officer since March 2024 after Chief Development Officer 2020–2024; previous resource and finance roles at Barrick, Goldman Sachs and Blackstone. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. The chronology is issuer-reported; the role-fit conclusion is an analytical inference, not a measured individual contribution. **Relevance:** Relevant experience for chief technical officer. [Johan van Jaarsveld]() (Johan van Jaarsveld biography); [Annual Report 2026]() (physical p.106, executive leadership; p.112, company secretary) ## Evidence gaps - Independent verification of qualifications and some prior-job dates was not obtained. - Broader employer-specific, regulator and court searches are incomplete; absence of a finding is not a clearance. - A single combined named query was reused across the nine broad topics; individual topic, prior-employer and official-record searches remain incomplete.