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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Natascha Viljoen

President and Chief Executive Officer

Career chronology

  • From October 2023; CEO from 1 January 2026: Newmont — Chief operating officer, then president and CEO. Newmont 2026 proxy statement (Director biography and executive compensation narrative)

  • 2020–2023, precise departure date not independently checked: Anglo American Platinum — Chief executive officer. Newmont 2026 proxy statement (Viljoen biography)

Education and qualifications

Reported qualifications

Issuer or professional biography · issuer reported · low materiality

Issuer reports a North-West University engineering degree and University of Cape Town executive MBA.

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)

Contributions and company outcomes

Quarterly production and cash generation

Q3 2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

In Q3 2026 Newmont reported 1.302 million attributable ounces of gold and US$1.9 billion of free cash flow; gold price and many operational teams influence results.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Viljoen was chief executive during the quarter; the disclosure does not isolate individual contribution.

Relevance: Indicates delivered company-level operating and financial results.

Newmont third quarter 2026 results (Q3 2026 results, summary and production tables)

Industrial safety

Tanami workforce fatality

Late 2023–February 2026 · documented · high materiality

Newmont reported no work-related fatalities at its operated sites or facilities in 2025 after five colleagues died over nine months in late 2023–2024. Newmont reported that a worker died at Tanami on 4 February 2026 and suspended site activity. NT WorkSafe and police began inquiries; a possible winch failure was preliminary. Newmont said in April that its investigation was complete and site work had resumed; its sustainability report said external authorities were still investigating as of publication. No final regulator outcome was located.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Viljoen was CEO during the February 2026 event and COO during part of the 2023–2024 period; neither her personal involvement nor fault in any incident was established.

Relevance: Relevant to company-level safety oversight.

Media statement: Tanami incident (Company statement, incident and suspension); Tanami worker death under investigation (NT WorkSafe and police inquiry); Newmont Q1 2026 results call transcript (Viljoen Q1 2026 earnings call); Newmont 2025 sustainability report (pp. 43–44, 2025 safety performance and 2023–24 deaths)

Litigation and enforcement

Securities action dismissed with judgment for Viljoen

2024–October 2026 · documented · high materiality

The Karas securities class action alleged misleading statements about 2024 operating performance. The original August 2026 dismissal order identifies Viljoen as a defendant and granted the motion to dismiss; on 17 September final judgment was entered for Newmont, Viljoen and the other initially named officers. Separate derivative complaints remained in process, with a further report ordered for November 2026.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The docket names her; allegations are not findings of wrongdoing and the dismissal and separate derivative procedural status must both be stated.

Relevance: Directly relevant governance and disclosure history.

Karas v Newmont, Order Granting Motion to Dismiss, docket 52 (pp. 1, 5–27, parties and order); Karas v Newmont docket 1:25-cv-00341 (Docket party list and entries 52, 54–56); Newmont 2026 third quarter Form 10-Q (Note 17, Karas and Gunderson litigation)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant professional experience

Career and current appointment · analyst inference · low materiality

Newmont reports Viljoen led global operations, projects and safety before becoming CEO, and previously led Anglo American Platinum.

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 (Director biography and executive compensation narrative)

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.