# David Thornton Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer ## Career chronology - **From 2016; CTO from 1 July 2026: Newmont** — Chief technical officer; prior Americas, Latin America and Africa leadership. [Leadership appointments and accounting officer, June 2026 Form 8-K]() (Chief Technical Officer appointment) - **Before 2016; exact dates unknown: Gold Fields and Barrick** — Engineering and leadership roles. [Executive appointments for the next phase of delivery]() (Thornton biography) ## Education and qualifications ### Reported qualifications [thornton_education] Issuer or professional biography · issuer reported · low materiality Issuer reports mining engineering at Curtin and an executive MBA at the University of Utah. **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) ## Industrial safety ### Ahafo North construction death during prior regional tenure [thornton_ahafo] February 2024 · documented · high materiality Newmont reported an Ahafo North worker died on 27 February 2024 in a severe-weather incident. The June 2026 SEC filing says Thornton was Africa managing director from February 2022 to August 2024; the investigation’s final result was not located. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Regional tenure overlaps the reported death; individual involvement and responsibility are not established. **Relevance:** Relevant to former operational oversight and company safety. [Media statement: Ahafo North incident]() (Company incident and investigation statement); [Leadership appointments and accounting officer, June 2026 Form 8-K]() (Thornton prior Africa tenure) ## Suitability for the current role ### Relevant professional experience [thornton_career] Career and current appointment · analyst inference · low materiality Newmont appointed Thornton CTO effective July 2026 following Americas and Africa management positions. **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. [Leadership appointments and accounting officer, June 2026 Form 8-K]() (Chief Technical Officer appointment) ## 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.