# Peter Toth Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability and Development Officer ## Career chronology - **From July 2022 in executive development roles: Newmont** — Chief sustainability and development officer. [Newmont 2026 proxy statement]() (Toth profile) - **2020–2022; precise departure date not established: Rio Tinto** — Strategy and development group executive. [Rio Tinto appoints strategy and development leader]() (Toth appointment and earlier career) - **2008–2014: OM Holdings** — Chief executive officer. [Rio Tinto appoints strategy and development leader]() (Toth background) ## Education and qualifications ### Reported qualifications [toth_education] Issuer or professional biography · issuer reported · low materiality Issuer reports a Monash business degree, Deakin graduate certificate and University of Melbourne international-business masters. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Qualifications are reported by the cited issuer or profile and were not independently verified. **Relevance:** Relevant professional background. [Newmont 2026 proxy statement]() (Named-person qualifications) ## Litigation and enforcement ### Named in dismissed securities action [toth_karas] 2024–October 2026 · documented · high materiality The amended Karas securities complaint added Toth as a defendant, according to the docket and Newmont. In August 2026 the court granted the motion to dismiss; the order’s caption did not name him. A 17 September final judgment named the other initial defendants, and on 24 September defendants moved to correct it or enter a separate judgment for Toth. Newmont reported separate derivative cases remained in process. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. Docket names Toth; allegations are not proven. The later disposition of the proposed correction was not located. **Relevance:** Material context for disclosure and governance responsibility. [Karas v Newmont, Order Granting Motion to Dismiss, docket 52]() (pp. 1 and 27, order caption and ruling); [Karas v Newmont docket 1:25-cv-00341]() (Docket party list and entries 52, 55–58); [Newmont 2026 third quarter Form 10-Q]() (Note 17, Karas and derivative proceedings) ## Governance and interests ### Ahafo security deaths and conflicting accounts [toth_ahafo] January 2025–February 2026 · disputed · high materiality Police reported three deaths and four injuries during a January 2025 confrontation after an alleged attempted site breach. A Ghanaian MP later alleged police and Newmont security chased and shot the people; the inquiry’s final result was not established. Newmont’s sustainability report describes two fatal early-2025 security incidents near Ahafo South as linked to artisanal mining and criminal activity, and says it introduced de-escalation training, threat monitoring and stronger security protocols. Its account does not resolve the specific competing allegations. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Toth held corporate sustainability and development leadership; these sources do not establish his involvement in the incident or personal responsibility. **Relevance:** Material community and security context for sustainability oversight. [Recent killings at Newmont Ahafo]() (25 February 2025 parliamentary statement, Ahafo incidents); [Police operation after attempted breach at Newmont mine]() (Police account and investigation); [Ahafo Complex Technical Report Summary]() (Section 3.5.5, security and community strategy); [Newmont 2025 sustainability report]() (pp. 7 and 45, Ahafo South security incidents and management action plan) ## Suitability for the current role ### Relevant professional experience [toth_career] Career and current appointment · analyst inference · low materiality Rio Tinto appointed Toth to group strategy and development from 1 October 2020; Newmont later appointed him to its strategy and sustainability leadership. **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. [Newmont 2026 proxy statement]() (Toth profile) ## 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.