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Newmont Corp
Symbol NGT
Shares Issued 1,153,617,667
Close 2024-01-24 C$ 46.61
Market Cap C$ 53,770,119,459
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Newmont appoints Wexler as chief legal officer

2024-01-24 12:30 ET - News Release

Mr. Tom Palmer reports

NEWMONT STRENGTHENS LEADERSHIP TEAM WITH APPOINTMENT OF INDUSTRY LEADER PETER WEXLER AS CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER

Newmont Corp. has appointed Peter Wexler as chief legal officer. Mr. Wexler will join Newmont's executive leadership team and be responsible for leading the company's legal, compliance and regulatory affairs globally.

PeMr. Wexlerer is an experienced legal and risk management leader with more than three decades of international knowledge in managing legal, risk, compliance, M&A (mergers and acquisitions), antitrust, litigation, and corporate governance affairs within the industrial, technology, energy management, engineering, manufacturing and construction sectors.

"Peter's appointment further strengthens Newmont's executive leadership team," said Tom Palmer, Newmont president and chief executive officer. "Peter brings decades of world-class legal and risk management experience at global organizations, which will be invaluable as Newmont continues to grow, building on its position as the world's leading gold mining company and robust copper producer. We are excited to welcome him to Newmont."

For the last 15 years, he served as chief legal officer at Schneider Electric, a Global 500 business. Prior to this, he served as in-house counsel overseeing legal, risk and compliance, at companies including American Power Conversion Corp.

As Schneider Electric's chief legal officer, Mr. Wexler managed the company's legal, risk management and compliance matters across the globe and directed a team of over 300 professionals in 32 countries. He was also responsible for overseeing numerous complex deals around the world, negotiating, structuring and closing over 130 transactions, earning him the accolades of M&A Advisors Top Business Development Professionals of the Year in 2020, and one of the Financial Times Top 20 General Counsels in the World in 2022.

Mr. Wexler holds a JD from American University, Washington College of Law, and graduated with a BA, in history and political science, from the University of Vermont.

Mr. Wexler will be based at Newmont's headquarters in Denver and will join the company toward the end of the first quarter of 2024.

About Newmont Corp.

Newmont is the world's leading gold company and a producer of copper, zinc, lead and silver. The company's world-class portfolio of assets, prospects and talent is anchored in favourable mining jurisdictions in Africa, Australia, Latin America and Caribbean, North America, and Papua New Guinea.

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