# David Fry Executive Vice President, Project Development ## Career chronology - **From 2022; promotion announced June 2026: Newmont** — Executive vice president project development; earlier global projects head. [Executive appointments for the next phase of delivery]() (David Fry biography and promotion) - **Before Newmont; dates not independently established: Rio Tinto** — Managing director, projects. [Executive appointments for the next phase of delivery]() (Fry biography) ## Education and qualifications ### Reported qualifications [fry_education] Issuer or professional biography · issuer reported · low materiality Newmont reports master’s degrees from Queensland University of Technology and University of Southern Queensland. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Qualifications are reported by the cited issuer or profile and were not independently verified. **Relevance:** Relevant professional background. [Newmont management biographies]() (Named-person qualifications) ## Suitability for the current role ### Relevant professional experience [fry_career] Career and current appointment · analyst inference · low materiality Newmont promoted Fry to executive vice president of project development in June 2026 after his global-projects role. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Listed roles are documented by cited sources; assessment of their relevance is analytical, and individual performance is not established solely by holding office. **Relevance:** Provides context for the current executive role. [Executive appointments for the next phase of delivery]() (David Fry biography and promotion) ## Evidence gaps - Full former-employer outcomes and precise tenure were not independently established. - Independent verification of education, professional memberships and credentials is incomplete. - Court, regulator and adverse-media searches are a limited public-source screen and do not establish absence of other matters. - One broad combined named-person search was reused for multiple topic logs; separate comprehensive career, education, success, failure, fraud, safety, environment, legal and governance searches were not performed.