Kim Truter (pictured), CEO and managing director of Burgundy Diamond Mines, which owns the Ekati mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories, has announced his plan to retire, effective at the company’s next general meeting, on May 27.
Burgundy said Jeremy King, a member of its board of directors, will serve as interim CEO. The board has begun a process to select a new CEO.
Before joining Burgundy in 2020, Truter was CEO of De Beers Canada from 2015 to 2019 and, prior to that, chief operating officer of Rio Tinto Diamonds.
(Photo courtesy of Burgundy Diamond Mines)
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