SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) introduced that Mrs Fiona Hick, most recently Executive Vice President Australian Operations of Woodside Energy, will join Fortescue as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Fortescue Metals in February 2023.
Fiona Hick will report again to the Fortescue Board, together with Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) CEO, Mr Mark Hutchinson.
Fiona, together with Mark, will lead Fortescue in its transition to a truly global inexperienced metals and energy company. Fiona will ship Fortescue’s global metals technique – to be the most profitable iron ore operator within the world, to lead exploration and development into critical minerals and uncommon earths, and to decarbonise Fortescue in partnership with FFI, creating significant additional worth for shareholders.
Fiona said her decision to join was pushed by a deep dedication to develop Fortescue into an innovative global inexperienced metals and energy firm and main the way for the world’s most local weather accountable heavy industry companies.
“I have loved and grown immensely throughout my 20 years in energy. I am as dedicated to the brand new way ahead for the world as Andrew is. We should present the metals and the energy which will assist to speed up the energy transition. I join with, and commit to, Andrew and Fortescue’s imaginative and prescient of becoming the main inexperienced metals and energy company globally. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I come into this role with an enormous and thrilling project pipeline to proceed to develop and execute for Fortescue. I am excited to ship our imaginative and prescient with the entire Fortescue family, working closely with an amazingly supportive Chairman and Board.”
Fortescue Founder and Executive Chairman, Dr Andrew Forrest AO, said this coming year would mark 20 years of Fortescue.
“As one of many most revered iron ore companies within the world we’re now transitioning to a global inexperienced metals and energy, manufacturing and technology business. We are looking ahead to Fiona Hick becoming a member of us, a deeply revered and skilled executive, to assist lead us to step past fossil fuels, making our firm ever stronger and always creating additional worth for shareholders.
“Fortescue has solely had three Chief Executives because it was based in 2003. We welcome Fiona in our twentieth year to lead our inexperienced metals company.
“Fiona’s extremely strategic operational thoughts and her easy pure management of individuals is typical of a personality that’s always vulnerable to new ideas. This is critical within the fixed seek for simplicity and streamlining that’s Fortescue. Fiona has the pure humility and adaptiveness to flourish in Fortescue’s uncommon management environment through values, versus command and control. Fiona has the proper personality to lead our metals organisation.
“One year ago, we started this search and carefully scoured the globe. I am so thrilled to have discovered somebody so near home that is aware of the Pilbara just like the again of her hand and that will love this firm as a lot as all of us do. Fiona will lead Fortescue Metals into the subsequent phase, potentially the most thrilling and fruitful of our company’s extremely active history.
“Together Fiona and Mark will take Fortescue into its subsequent phase and into being the main global inexperienced metals and energy firm within the world.”
Fiona is a really skilled executive having held a number of senior operational management roles in Woodside Energy over the final 20 years together with in engineering; health, safety, environment and high quality and strategy, planning and analysis. She is accountable for all of Woodside’s operations throughout Australia together with working and assimilating into Woodside the Australian energy assets of BHP.
Fiona is the present President of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia, a Member of the Strategic Resources Committee of the University of Western Australia, and a previous Chair of the Environmental Science Committee of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association.
She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and Energy Studies from Murdoch University and Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from the University of Western Australia. She is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers. She won the 2019 Chamber of Minerals and Energy Western Australia’s Outstanding Woman in Resources Award.
Prior to becoming a member of Woodside, Fiona labored for 5 years with Rio Tinto, each in firm and sitebased operational roles within the Pilbara.
Dr Forrest based Fortescue from a start-up shell in 2003, carefully constructing it into the most environment friendly iron ore firm within the world. In his present role as Executive Chairman, Dr Forrest is driving and preparing the firm for its distinctive mission to show Fortescue inexperienced by 2030, ensuring the primary mover benefit created over the previous a number of years is fully realised for shareholders.