Full background report
Marie Bourgoin
Chief Operating Officer
Career chronology
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Joined 13 August 2024; COO from 1 January 2026: IGO Limited — Chief Operating Officer; formerly Chief Development Officer – Lithium. IGO FY2025 annual report (Printed p.19 leadership); IGO FY2026 annual report (PDF p.92, FY26 executive KMP outcomes)
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Newman GM in 2019; complete dates not established: BHP — General Manager Newman Operations and later senior global logistics positions. Meet Newman general manager Marie Bourgoin (Contemporaneous employer interview); Executive leadership team appointments (Page 1)
Education and qualifications
Reported qualifications
Issuer biography · issuer reported · low materiality
IGO reports a Master of Science in Business Management from EDHEC and GAICD. The institutions were not independently checked.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. These are reported qualifications, not independent verification.
Relevance: Background relevant to the stated role.
Executive leadership team appointments (Executive biography / appointment)
Personal achievements
Former BHP Newman management role
2019 · documented · medium materiality
A 2019 BHP profile identifies Bourgoin as Newman Operations general manager and describes responsibilities for team safety, working environment and productivity.
Attribution: Individual involvement documented. Contemporaneous employer profile identifies her own role and stated responsibilities; outcomes are not independently measured.
Relevance: Relevant large-scale operating experience.
Meet Newman general manager Marie Bourgoin (Newman general manager profile)
Contributions and company outcomes
Nova exceeded guidance; Kwinana continued below plan
FY2026 · issuer reported · high materiality
IGO reported FY2026 Nova nickel production of 15,304t, above guidance, and Kwinana hydroxide production of 8,839t against 9,000–11,000t guidance. It reported a fire at Greenbushes CGP3 in June 2026 and restart in August; Talison is the operator.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Bourgoin became COO on 1 January 2026. Site teams and partners control operations; personal causation is not established.
Relevance: Mixed operating outcomes are relevant to current COO responsibilities.
IGO FY2026 annual report (PDF pp.25–26 operational and financial review); IGO FY2026 annual report (PDF p.92 COO role change)
Evidence gaps
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Original investigations of relevant mining incidents and specific BHP tenure end dates are not fully established.
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Reported education and memberships were not independently checked.
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Personal contribution to joint venture and mining outcomes is not independently quantified.
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A single combined broad name-and-employer query was reused across nine topics; independent topic-specific and complete regulator/court searches remain incomplete.