Mark Rodgers

Career chronology

• From April 2020; COO from 1 July 2026: Newmont — Chief operating officer; earlier regional managing roles. Leadership appointments and accounting officer, June 2026 Form 8-K (Chief Operating Officer appointment)

• Before 2020; dates not independently established: Rio Tinto and BHP — Operational leadership roles. Leadership appointments and accounting officer, June 2026 Form 8-K (COO career description)

Education and qualifications

Reported qualifications

Issuer or professional biography · issuer reported · low materiality

Issuer reports a Murdoch mineral-processing degree and postgraduate Curtin minerals-economics qualification.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Qualifications are reported by the cited issuer or profile and were not independently verified.

Relevance: Relevant professional background.

Leadership appointments and accounting officer, June 2026 Form 8-K (Named-person qualifications)

Industrial safety

Tanami fatality and uncertain regional-role timing

February 2026 · documented · high materiality

A Newmont worker died at Tanami in February 2026. Newmont suspended site activity and NT WorkSafe began an inquiry. The company said in April that its investigation was complete and work had resumed; its sustainability report said external authorities were still investigating as of publication. The June 2026 SEC filing says Rodgers led the Africa Asia Pacific region immediately before his July appointment; independent exact start and February site-specific authority were not established; no final regulator outcome was located.

Attribution: Responsibility unresolved. The cited filing establishes his regional post before the July appointment but not its exact start or his site-specific authority in February 2026; his personal involvement and responsibility were not established.

Relevance: Relevant safety context for the current operating portfolio leader.

Leadership appointments and accounting officer, June 2026 Form 8-K (COO appointment and prior regional role); Media statement: Tanami incident (Incident statement); Tanami worker death under investigation (Inquiry); Newmont Q1 2026 results call transcript (Viljoen Q1 2026 earnings call); Newmont 2025 sustainability report (p.43, authorities investigation)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant professional experience

Career and current appointment · analyst inference · low materiality

Newmont appointed Rodgers COO in July 2026 following regional management roles; the SEC filing describes his regional periods.

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 Operating 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.

• The precise start date of the Africa Asia Pacific managing-director role and his site-specific authority during the February 2026 Tanami incident are not established by the cited SEC filing.