Ms Veenman has over 21 years' mining industry experience, including as a senior executive and, more recently, as a public company director. Ms Veenman is also Chair of the Board of Directors of the Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre in Toronto, a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing child and youth services and support. Previously, Ms Veenman was a Senior Vice-President and General Counsel and a member of the executive leadership team at Barrick Gold Corporation. In that capacity, Ms Veenman was responsible for overall management of legal affairs, engaged in that company's M&A and financing transactions and involved in a range of operational, regulatory, political and social responsibility aspects of the mining business. She is also member of the Governance Committee of the NXG.
