# Nick Strong Chief Operating Officer ## Career chronology - **Current role and background: Northern Star KCGM general manager, then Hemi and KCGM growth; previous Newcrest and Rio Tinto roles: Greatland Resources Limited** — Chief Operating Officer. [Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technical Officer appointments]() (Pages 1–2, COO appointment and experience); [Leadership team]() (Nick Strong biography) ## Education and qualifications ### Reported qualifications [nick-strong_education] Issuer biography; qualification dates unknown · issuer reported · low materiality Issuer reports engineering and applied finance qualifications, not independently verified. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Credentials are reported by issuer and were not independently verified. **Relevance:** Role-relevant education and qualifications. [Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technical Officer appointments]() (Pages 1–2, COO appointment and experience); [Leadership team]() (Nick Strong biography) ## Governance and interests ### Mt Charlotte agreement proposal and workforce vote [strong_agreement] 2022 · documented · medium materiality In November 2022 Northern Star proposed terminating the Mt Charlotte underground enterprise agreement. Strong, then KCGM general manager, said the company believed it limited flexibility and would honour or improve conditions if approved. The union opposed the proposal and reported that workers overwhelmingly voted no. The full subsequent industrial history was not established. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The contemporaneous report quotes Strong explaining the proposal; this is a documented industrial-relations issue, not a finding of misconduct. **Relevance:** Relevant to leadership and workforce relations at a major operation. [Northern Star proposes Mt Charlotte agreement termination]() (Article, Strong’s comments and union response); [Year in review 2022]() (Page 7, KCGM workforce vote) ## Suitability for the current role ### Experience relevant to role [nick-strong_fit] Career and current role as disclosed · analyst inference · low materiality His large-mine operational background is relevant to the Telfer and Havieron operating remit. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Analytical inference from disclosed roles; precise personal contribution to employer outcomes varies. **Relevance:** Team capability and role fit. [Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technical Officer appointments]() (Pages 1–2, COO appointment and experience); [Leadership team]() (Nick Strong biography) ## Evidence gaps - Independent verification of reported credentials and complete prior-employer dates was not obtained. - Targeted public-source searches do not exhaust legal, regulatory, sanctions, safety or litigation records. - Individual contribution to company-wide outcomes is not quantified. - Complete post-vote industrial outcome was not established. - Some earlier topic rows reuse broad person and employer searches; topic-specific regulator, court, safety, fraud and environmental searches and full prior-employer histories are incomplete.