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2026-11-06

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Johan van Jaarsveld

Chief Technical Officer

Career chronology

  • 2024-03-01 onward: BHP Group — Chief Technical Officer. Johan van Jaarsveld (Johan van Jaarsveld 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)

  • September 2020–April 2024: BHP — Chief Development Officer. Johan van Jaarsveld (Career and experience); Annual Report 2026 (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary)

  • Before joining BHP in 2016; dates unconfirmed: Barrick Gold — Executive role. Johan van Jaarsveld (Career and experience); Annual Report 2026 (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary)

  • Before BHP; dates unconfirmed: Goldman Sachs and Blackstone Group — Executive roles. Johan van Jaarsveld (Career and experience); Annual Report 2026 (physical p.106, executive roster, or p.101 for company secretary)

Education and qualifications

Reported professional qualifications

Career background · issuer reported · low materiality

Chemical engineering degree, applied finance master and doctorate in extractive metallurgy, issuer-reported.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Reported by the issuer; credentials and membership were not independently checked.

Relevance: Professional training relevant to the role.

Johan van Jaarsveld (Qualifications and experience)

Suitability for the current role

Experience relevant to current remit

Career through October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

BHP Chief Technical Officer since March 2024 after Chief Development Officer 2020–2024; previous resource and finance roles at Barrick, Goldman Sachs and Blackstone.

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 technical officer.

Johan van Jaarsveld (Johan van Jaarsveld 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.

  • A single combined named query was reused across the nine broad topics; individual topic, prior-employer and official-record searches remain incomplete.