BHP appoints Adrian Wood CFO as Vandita Pant exit adds to leadership shakeup
MELBOURNE - BHP said on Thursday it had appointed internal candidate Adrian Wood as CFO, replacing Vandita Pant, in the latest senior management change since the miner's new CE took over in July.
Wood, who joined the world's largest listed mining company in 2015, is currently projects VP for its Minerals Australia business.
He has more than 25 years of experience across investment banking and corporate roles in Australia and Britain, including at UBS in London and Macquarie Group, according to BHP, and is well known to analysts and investors.
"Adrian has a strong track record of financial management, strategic thinking and commercial capability," BHP CEO Brandon Craig said in a statement.
Pant will step down following the release of BHP's half-year results on February 16 and will remain at the company until March 29 to support the transition, BHP said.
Pant, widely respected by analysts and investors for her cool head and financial competence in an era of geopolitical uncertainty, is the second top executive who had been seen as a CEO contender to exit since Craig took the top role.
The company announced in September that Chief Commercial Officer Rag Udd would step down at the end of January to pursue an opportunity outside the company.
Craig took the helm this year as the mining industry undergoes a generational shift amid a rush for copper, succeeding Mike Henry, who spent six years in the role.
Australia President Geraldine Slattery, Wood's current boss, had also been seen by some investors as among the leading contenders for the top job.
CEO transitions typically spur around a third of top management to depart within a few years, a pattern BHP chairperson Ross McEwan in March called a natural outcome of competitive succession processes.
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