Gordon R. Parker is a business executive notable for leading the Gold Fields unit of Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based Iamgold corporation.[1] He was chairman of Newmont Mining Corporation[2][3] which was a firm involved with exploring, acquiring, and managing gold metals. Parker is a director at corporations including Caterpillar; Gold Fields Limited and Phelps Dodge Corporation. Mr. Parker has been a director of Caterpillar since 1995. In 1988, when Parker was chairman and chief executive officer of Newmont Corporation, he was 52 years old.[4]
Iamgold will issue 351.7 million shares and become part of a new, publicly traded Gold Fields unit led by Gordon R. Parker, 68, the former chairman of the Newmont Mining Corporation.
The plan did not have the flexibility to accommodate the possible negative implications of those two recent events, said Gordon R. Parker, Newmont's chairman.
Newmont Mining Corp., Denver, named T. Peter Philip president, chief operating officer and a director. He succeeds Gordon R. Parker, who remains chairman and chief executive.
The promotion does little to change his position at the company - he continues as No. 2 to Gordon R. Parker, 52, president, chairman and chief executive.