# Catherine Raw Chief Development Officer ## Career chronology - **2024-04-29 onward: BHP Group** — Chief Development Officer. [Catherine Raw]() (Catherine Raw 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) - **April 2022 to before April 2024: SSE Thermal** — Managing Director. [Catherine Raw]() (Career and experience); [Annual Report 2026]() (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary); [Catherine Raw appointed to SSE Executive Committee]() (13 December 2022 appointment announcement) - **Before SSE; exact dates unconfirmed: Barrick Gold** — Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer North America. [Catherine Raw]() (Career and experience); [Annual Report 2026]() (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary) - **Before Barrick; exact dates unconfirmed: BlackRock** — Managing Director, Natural Resources Team. [Catherine Raw]() (Career and experience); [Annual Report 2026]() (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary) ## Education and qualifications ### Reported professional qualifications [raw_education] Career background · issuer reported · low materiality MA Natural Sciences, MSc Mineral Project Appraisal and CFA charterholder, issuer-reported. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Reported by the issuer; credentials and membership were not independently checked. **Relevance:** Professional training relevant to the role. [Catherine Raw]() (Qualifications and experience) ## Contributions and company outcomes ### Barrick North America regional results [raw_barrick] 2020 · issuer reported · medium materiality Barrick’s 2021 circular reported 2020 North American gold production within guidance, record regional cash flow and no fatalities for the region during Raw’s COO tenure. The numbers are corporate-reported and not a measurement of her individual contribution. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Her regional operating remit overlaps the reported outcome; the report does not isolate her causal contribution. **Relevance:** Relevant operating and project oversight experience. [2021 management information circular]() (printed p.70, Chief Operating Officer North America accomplishments); [Catherine Raw appointed to SSE Executive Committee]() (appointment and former Barrick positions) ## Industrial safety ### Fatal Hemlo incident and later charges [raw_hemlo] July 2021–August 2022 · documented · high materiality A contractor died at Barrick’s Hemlo mine in July 2021 while Raw was North America COO. Barrick suspended operations and announced an investigation. In 2022 Ontario’s labour ministry brought safety charges against the operator and contractor; the final disposition was not located. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Raw held the regional COO role at the time. Charges concerned companies and the sources do not establish her personal fault. **Relevance:** Relevant to operating safety oversight. [Fatality at Hemlo Mine in Ontario]() (fatality, suspension and named regional COO); [Charges laid in Hemlo mining fatality]() (2022 Ontario charges and allegations) ## Suitability for the current role ### Experience relevant to current remit [raw_fit] Career through October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality Joined BHP as Chief Development Officer April 2024; previously SSE Thermal managing director and Barrick Gold CFO and North American COO, and BlackRock. **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 development officer. [Catherine Raw]() (Catherine Raw 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. - The final Ontario outcome of the 2022 Hemlo company charges was not located after targeted searches. - A single combined named query was reused across the nine broad topics; individual topic, prior-employer and official-record searches remain incomplete.