2014 Mining Indaba – Featured Speakers

 

H.E Mrs. Fatima H. Acyl in the Commissioner or the Department of Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission. Mrs. Acy holds an MBA (Honors), with specialization in Finance from Xavier University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, and BS in Business Administration from the University of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

H.E Mrs. FATIMA H. ACYL served in Chad and United States of America (USA) in various capacities, including:

• Deputy Director General of the Agricultural Bank of Chad;
• Interim Project Manager and Director of Administration & Finance of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through its implementing agencies: the UNDP and the WORLD BANK in Chad;
• Audit Manager of CROWECHIZEK, LLC, Financial and Advisory Services in Oakbrook, IL USA;
• Manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Global Management Solution, in Chicago, IL, USA. Rose from Associate to Senior Associate and then to Manager
  position;
• Internal Auditor & Compliance Officer II of Star Bank, N.A (now known as US bank) in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Rose from a Team Leader position at the Electronic Department to Internal Auditor & Compliance Officer I and then to Internal Auditor & Compliance Officer II.

 

Tom Albanese is the Chairman of Vedanta Resources Holdings Ltd. Vedanta Resources plc is a leading global mining and oil and gas company listed in the UK, and primarily based in India & Africa.

Tom was the former chief executive of Rio Tinto from May 2007 to January 2013. Rio Tinto is the second largest global diversified mining company. He was appointed a member of the Rio Tinto Board in March 2006. Tom joined Rio Tinto in 1993 when the company acquired Nerco, where Tom was chief operating officer. After joining Rio Tinto, he held a series of management positions before being appointed chief executive of the Industrial Minerals group in 2000, after which he became chief executive of the Copper group and head of Exploration in 2004. In July 2006 Tom was appointed director, Group Resources.

Tom is also on the board of directors of Franco Nevada Corporation which he joined in August 2013, a Toronto based company gold focused royalty and metal streaming company with assets around the world.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mineral Economics and a Master’s in Mining Engineering from the University of Alaska.

In 2009, Tom joined the Board of Visitors for Duke University Fuqua School of Business in North Carolina.

He is married to Mary and they have two daughters.

 

 

Gina Barbieri manages CAO’s dispute resolution function and is a South African human rights lawyer and dispute resolution professional. Before joining the CAO she ran a legal practice specializing in mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). She has mediated numerous disputes in the employment, commercial and community arena and is the author of two books on labor practice in the public and private sector. Gina co-authored and edited two IFC publications on the establishment of ADR Centers in emerging markets and guidelines on the practice of ADR. She is a co-founder of the African Institute for Mediation, served as the Deputy Head of the Africa Center for Dispute Settlement, Stellenbosch University Business School, and sat on the steering committee for the establishment of the African Mediation Association. She obtained her BComm LLB from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and is a CEDR (UK) and IMI accredited international mediator.

 

Mr Barker is a Geologist with extensive experience in the exploration and development of gas projects in Australia and internationally. He holds a Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology from the University of Western Australia.

Mr Barker’s previous roles include, General Manager LNG for Arrow Energy Ltd, where he was responsible for the overall management of the company’s lead LNG export project. The maturing of the Surat Gas Project to Final Investment Decision was instrumental in triggering the A$3.5 billion takeover of Arrow Energy by Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina in August 2010.

Mr Barker was also the Operations Manager for New Guinea Energy Limited, managing the company’s conventional petroleum exploration activities in Papua New Guinea.

His experience covers exploration and development activities, corporate relations, business development and general management. He has served as a member of the Coal Geology Council of New South Wales, and is a member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia.

 

Since becoming WA’s 29th Premier on September 6, 2008, Colin Barnett has built a reputation as a strong advocate for Western Australia, for decisive leadership and promoting the economic and social development of the State.

As State Development Minister, Mr Barnett is committed to attracting investment and assisting the development of major projects based around Western Australia’s natural advantages in mining, petroleum and agriculture. Large-scale infrastructure projects in the city of Perth have also been progressed under his leadership, including sinking the railway line that divides the CBD, a city waterfront development on the banks of the Swan River (Elizabeth Quay), and a new world-class sports stadium at Burswood.

Since 2013, he has also been Minister for Science, in recognition of the central role that scientific innovation will take in the future of the State’s development, particularly in mining, agriculture, astronomy and the environment.

Mr Barnett is also determined to ensure that economic growth supports all West Australians, including the most vulnerable, through an innovative social agenda. The Liberal National Government leads Australia in the delivery of social services. In 2011, a $1billion social services package included $604million for the not-for-profit sector.

In 2010, Mr Barnett announced the creation of the Kimberley Wilderness Parks, one of the most significant environmental initiatives in WA’s history.

The Liberal National Government has also implemented genuine reform of public schools and allocated $7billion to rebuild the State’s public hospitals, including the 783-bed Fiona Stanley Hospital and a new world-class children’s hospital.

In 2013, Mr Barnett led the Liberal Party to a second term in government with an historic increase in seats. The Liberals govern in an alliance with the National Party.

Mr Barnett has been the Liberal Member for Cottesloe since 1990 and was a senior minister in the Court Government (1993-2001) holding the portfolios of Resources Development, Energy, Education and Tourism. From 2001 to 2005, he was Leader of the State Opposition.

He holds an Honours and Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Western Australia.

 

Roger Baxter is the Chief Operating Officer at the Chamber of Mines of South Africa. He is responsible for the strategy, economics, finance and operational functions of the Chamber. He has recently returned from a brief stint as the vice-President of Industry Analysis for Rio Tinto Alcan in Canada. Roger has worked in the mining and minerals industry for over 20 years and has been involved in most matters related to the economics of minerals and mining policy. Most of his work has focused on the economics and competitiveness of the mining and minerals industry, including significant work on the policy issues that affect investment. In this context he has researched position papers on beneficiation, black economic empowerment, minerals policy, minerals taxation and mineral royalties. Roger drove the process of developing a comprehensive strategy for the mining industry to address the sector’s various challenges in South Africa. As the head of strategy Roger is responsible for developing the Chamber’s strategic plans, broad strategic goals and implementation plans.

He has more recently been involved in leading the Chamber’s technical input to the Deputy President’s Mining Dialogue process, which culminated in the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Sector. He co-chaired the process of engagement with the DMR on the MPRDA Amendment Bill where good progress has been made on engendering a competitive and stable mining law.

His work on investment has been extensively used in discussions with government on how to raise investment in mining and in the country in general. He led the Chamber’s input to the Mining Industry Task Team on Investment established in November 2006 to investigate the reasons for the inability of South Africa to capitalize on the global commodities boom. In 2010, he chaired the tripartite Mining Industry Growth, Employment and Development Task Team (MIGDETT) Competitiveness Working Group and helped develop a Strategy for the Sustainable Growth and Meaningful Transformation of the South African Mining Industry. He also helped to develop the sectoral Mining Growth Strategy which has helped to get mining back onto the top 5 sector priority list of government. He helped developed the mining industry’s response position paper to global climate change and carbon taxes, topics which are currently hot on the country’s agenda. He has been extensively involved in the analysis of global commodity markets and trends and the economics of the South African mining industry.

Roger has dealt with a multiplicity of other mining specific issues including participating on task-teams dealing with the World Bank Group Extractive Industries Review, the Water Research Commission Steering Committee on the development of a Waste Water Discharge Charge System for South Africa, the first and second gold lobby efforts to prevent open market sales by the IMF, the EU Registration and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) proposals, the Rail Industry Transport Collaboration Forum, to mention but a few.

Roger played an active role in organised business a few years ago through Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) and participated in the tripartite discussions that go back to the original National Economic Forum established in 1994 to the current National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC). Roger served two terms as chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of BUSA and was previously one of the business principal members of the NEDLAC Trade and Industry Chamber. He was involved as a principal member of the BUSA negotiating teams in NEDLAC for the new Skills Development Bill, the Energy Policy White paper, the Water Pricing Policy and led the BSA teams input on the Nuclear Regulatory Bills, the negotiations on Industrial Policy (including helping to write the business position papers), the Integrated Manufacturing Policy and the Minerals Development Bill in NEDLAC. He also was part of the BUSA competition policy task team. He was involved in the NEDLAC discussions on how South Africa should manage the impact of the global economic crisis. In this regard Roger previously chaired the business working group formulating a South Africa response and this business task team was involved in the Joint Presidential Working Group structure setup to deal with the matter in NEDLAC.

He led the business input to the Presidential Growth and Development Summit on investment issues. He has played roles in a number of other BUSA projects including previously chairing the BUSA Restructuring of State Assets Task Team and the Business South Africa Steering Committee on the research project entitled “Breaking through the Economic Growth Barrier”. He also led the BUSA input on administered prices in NEDLAC. He developed a briefing note on Social Pacts and the Irish experience, which he presented to the National President and other Cabinet members at a BUSA-Presidential Working Group meeting in 2005. Roger previously chaired the BUSA “Economic Growth Task team” which was engaging government on the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (ASGISA) and the outcomes of the various growth diagnostics (such as the OECD report). He has presented BUSA’s views on economic growth and investment to the President, Deputy-President and members of Cabinet in a series of meetings between 2006 and 2011 (via the Presidential-BUSA working group and in the Executive Council of NEDLAC).

He also participated in the external reference group selected to assist the government in developing a new industrial policy for South Africa. Other issues that he has been involved in include macroeconomic policy, fiscal policy, the national budget, transport and electricity restructuring, migrant labour policy, labour market policy, microeconomic policy reforms, energy policy, environmental policy, sustainable development policy and so on. He has published articles in various financial and economic journals. He has presented to a multiplicity of conferences and seminars on issues as diverse as minerals policy right through to South Africa’s competitiveness versus the key international competition.

Roger has also been intricately involved in the debates on energy policy. He previously chaired the BUSA Committee on Electricity and was involved in the National Electricity Response Task Team, the Presidential Joint Working Group on Electricity and in the NEDLAC electricity emergency process, which culminated in the Energy Summit on 16 May 2008. He also sat as one of the business representatives on the National Stakeholder Advisory Council on Electricity. Given the key issue of the electricity emergency, it is interesting to note that Roger was a member of the Business Team that negotiated the National Energy Policy White Paper in NEDLAC in 1998.

Roger completed post graduate studies in economics at the University of Natal before joining the Chamber of Mines. He was a member of the State President’s Adjudication Committee for Export Achievement awards for 4 years. He has played a role in the South African Chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce (on the Executive Committee) and was previously a director on the boards of the Rand Refinery and the National Productivity Institute. He was also a board member of the Precious Metals and Diamond Regulator. He was a member of the Investment Analysts Society of South Africa and the Economic Society of South Africa. He previously sat on the Central Council of the Economic Society between 2002 and 2007 as the Chair of the Finance Committee.

As Director of 3M’s global Mining & Metallurgy business Mr Beukman is responsible for bringing 3M solutions from all 50 3M divisions to the Mining and Metallurgy industry. Key clusters of solutions are: Personal Safety, Site Safety, Cable connections and repair and a variety of maintenance and repair solutions

 

Roger is experienced in the Survey and Mapping industry having worked on a broad spectrum of projects ranging from GIS and aerial survey data capture to web and mobile based application development. As Business Development Manager for AAM Africa, Roger is focused on geospatial technologies for the African Mining sector.

 

Graham was appointed chief executive officer in January 2008, after his appointment to the board in 2007. Having joined Harmony as new business manager in 1995, Graham’s previous positions include that of chief executive of Harmony Australia. A geologist by training, Graham has more than 37 years’ experience in the field and in an operational capacity at a number of South African gold mines. Graham serves as a director on Harmony’s subsidiary companies.

 

Chief executive since the incorporation of Randgold, which was founded on his pioneering exploration work in West Africa. Has subsequently led the company’s growth through the discovery and development of world-class assets into a major gold mining business and one of the 100 largest companies on the London Stock Exchange. Has also played a significant part in promoting the emergence of a sustainable mining industry in Africa. A geologist with a PhD from Natal University, South Africa, he has held board positions at a number of global mining companies and is currently a non-executive director of Rockwell Diamonds Inc.

 

Tom leads IFC's investment activities in mining exploration and development. His team oversees a $500 million debt and equity portfolio spanning over 37 projects in 25 countries. Tom joined IFC in 1997 and has focused on the financing of oil, gas and mining projects, mainly in Africa and Latin America. Tom spent five years in IFC's infrastructure department, financing projects such as airports, shipping, and power companies, again with a focus on Africa, where he was based for three years between 2006 and 2009. Tom was appointed IFC's head for Mining in March 2011. Tom has a degree in engineering from Cambridge University, England, and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He is based in Washington DC.

 

 

Mr Casello is a highly experienced executive with national and global exposure in manufacturing environments for blue chip organisations. Backed by 30 years of experience, he has a track record of success in senior roles managing operations, business development and corporate strategy. Prior to joining Sundance in November 2010, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Sinosteel Midwest in Western Australia.

 

With over 20 years’ experience in the field of education, Kirsty has spoken internationally on re-inventing education and training through the creative use of technology and blended learning systems. She plays a vital role in new business development, key account management and the international expansion of The Training Room Online.

 

Mr. Christopher has 30 years of exploration and corporate development experience with Teck and is currently responsible for Teck’s global exploration efforts. He has spent much of the past 15 years focusing on the junior mining sector, partnerships, property transactions and junior mining equity investments.

 

Andy Churr is a Partner in ERM’s management consulting practice. He has extensive experience working with executives of global mining companies to create and implement mine development, operation and closure strategies. A key component of this has focused on identifying ways to meet external stakeholder expectations whilst protecting and enhancing shareholder value across the full mining lifecycle.

 

Beresford has been a specialist PGM market analyst for over 10 years. In this time, his development and deep understanding of the market has been fast tracked with extensive industry exposure throughout the upstream and downstream PGM industry.

He has vast upstream experience, including high profile work in M&A defence, acquisitions and capital raisings ($5bn to date), project valuations, on-site mine restructuring, feasibility studies, industry workshops and Board-level motivations and strategy. He is regularly contracted to carry out work for PGM mining companies, refiners, end-users, recyclers and investors.

Besides PGMs, he has produced research on numerous commodities, including lithium, chrome, gold, base metals, other industrial metals and oil.

With forty years’ background in resources/economics in Africa and across the developing world, including 30 years within the world exploration industry, Duncan Clarke is a leading thinker, strategist, speaker and writer on the economics, geopolitics and resource industry complex, including energy/oil-gas industries of Africa, as well as on corporate and Government strategies in the African Continent.

Founder of Global Pacific & Partners, an advisory firm with an extensive three decades Africa track record, and Advisor to numerous Governments and Companies on the Continent, including State firms and licensing agencies, multilateral and financial Institutions, he conducts annual Strategy Briefings on Africa, Asia, Latin America, MidEast, and on the world energy/oil future.

Recent books include Africa’s Future: Darkness to Destiny (Profile Books, London, 2012), Africa: Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize (Profile, 2010 – with TV-Film/Documentary by CNBC-Africa), Empires of Oil (Profile, 2007), and The Battle For Barrels (Profile, 2007), alongside numerous publications on Africa’s economies and resource strategies and issues shaping investment in Africa.

Born Zimbabwe, based Johannesburg – with B.Comm (Hons) Economics, Rhodes University (South Africa, 1969); Ph.D (Economics), University of St. Andrews (Scotland, 1975) – he has travelled widely in and across the Continent over the last four decades.

 

Sir Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. He is also Co-Director of the International Growth Centre and is currently a Professeur invité at Sciences Po. From 1998–2003 he took a five-year Public Service leave during which he was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank. In 2008 Sir Paul was awarded a CBE ‘for services to scholarship and development’. He advised the British Government on its recent G8, in which corporate tax avoidance and evasion were core concerns.

This work is described in his article in Prospect, April 2013. Sir Paul is currently adviser to the Strategy and Policy Department of the International Monetary Fund. He has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural resources rich societies. Recent books include The Bottom Billion (Oxford University Press, 2007) which in 2008 won the Lionel Gelber, Arthur Ross and Corine prizes and in May 2009 was the joint winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book prize; Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (Vintage Books, 2009); The Plundered Planet: How to reconcile prosperity with nature (Penguin, 2010); and Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World, to be released on 3rd October 2013 (Penguin).

 

Mr. Conibear has more than 30 years experience in corporate and asset management of all phases of mining investments in North and South America, and several African countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo. As Chief Operating Officer then President/CEO and a Director of Tenke Mining Corp for many years until its merger with Lundin Mining, Mr. Conibear was instrumental in progressing the world class Tenke Fungurume copper/cobalt project towards development.

 

 

David, as corporate representative, has held SNL Metals Economics Group’s Senior Sales Executive position since 1999. He was a Senior Research Analyst and Director and Editor of SNL MEG’s Corporate Exploration Strategies study from 1990 to 1999. SNL MEG has been providing comprehensive mining industry information and analysis for more than 30 years. He was an editor and comptroller at a publishing company prior to joining SNL MEG and has a degree in comparative religions. Mr. Cox has presented keynote speeches and talks at the UNCTAD Commodities Forum, Mining Indaba, Canadian Mines Ministers Conference, CESCO Santiago, China Mining, MINEX Moscow, PDAC, and at LBMA Conferences.

Peter Craven is currently General Manager, Business Development at Mintek. Peter spent 25 years in the mining industry with Anglo American, Samancor, Gencor, Billiton and BHP Billiton in various technical roles, including Vice President, Technology for BHP Billiton. He has experience in gold, uranium, manganese, chrome, industrial minerals and base minerals.

 

Graham Dallas has worked in the capital markets of London, Europe and Hong Kong. He has experience in international corporate and government bond markets, and began his exchange career with Nasdaq Europe. He was a senior manager at the London Stock Exchange where he was responsible for opening up new international primary markets in the USA, the Middle East and Latin America. He has extensive experience of the challenges posed by cross-border and international listing, and a deep knowledge of both the issues and the opportunities that globalised capital markets present to companies, investors and advisers.

 

Mr Davey is a mining engineer with over 20 years of senior management and operational experience in the construction and operation of gold, platinum and coal mines in Africa, Australia, South America and Russia. Mr Davey is Managing Director of Cradle Resources and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

 

Alan was appointed chief executive, Diamonds & Minerals in September 2012. He joined the Group in 1997 and has held management positions in Australia, London and the US for the Iron Ore and Energy businesses. Prior to his current role, Alan was president, International Operations for Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore business with global accountability for operations and projects in Canada, India and Guinea. Alan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. He was a director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 2010 to April 2012.

 

Aidan Davy joined ICMM in June 2007. He has responsibility for ensuring that ICMM’s strategic planning is responsive to both current and emerging issues and for encouraging synergies across ICMM’s program areas. He also leads ICMM’s work on social and economic development, investor engagement, sustainability reporting and independent assurance.

Aidan has 25 years of cross-sectoral experience on sustainable development issues, working with a range of private, multi-lateral and not-for-profit organizations, including the World Bank and International Finance Corporation in Washington DC.

For the past 15 years, his primary focus has been on social responsibility and accountability issues, with a strong emphasis on the extractive industries. During this period, he has worked:

• as an independent consultant for a range of multi-lateral/bilateral and private sector clients on many of the emerging challenges for the sector
• as a senior specialist with the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) in Washington DC, the external accountability office for the two private sector institutions of the World Bank
• as Director of Corporate Services for the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), where he developed practical CSR engagement strategies for a variety of multinational companies and represented IBLF on the Secretariat for the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
• with the World Bank on the social dimensions of extractives and the value of tri-sector partnerships, in delivering social and community development and the integration of social concerns into privately financed extractives projects.

For the first decade of his career, Aidan primarily worked on environmental issues, in an international consulting company, a multinational manufacturing company and the World Bank.

His initial focus was on environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs) for projects in a variety of sectors, including mining, initially for an environmental consulting practice and later for the World Bank. In the intervening years, he worked on environmental audits, environmental management systems and the then emerging sustainable development agenda.

Aidan has an Honours BSc in Environmental Sciences and Technology from the National University of Ireland.

 

Paulo de Sa is the Sector Manager of the Sustainable Energy Department, Oil, Gas and Mining Unit at the World Bank, where he coordinates and leads the Bank’s oil, gas, and mining lending activities and technical assistance in more than 50 countries. He also heads three global programs and partnerships in the oil, gas and mineral sectors including: the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR), and the Extractive Industries Technical Advisory Services (EI-TAF).

Prior to that he was a Lead Operations Officer for the Latin America region of the World Bank and also a Lead Industrial Economist.

Before joining the World Bank, he worked in Strategy and Operations for Usinor-Sacilor, a leading steel producer in France. He holds a Doctorate in Mineral Economics from the Paris School of Mines.

 

Rohitesh Dhawan is KPMG’s Global Head of Climate Change & Sustainability for the Mining Sector. He is a Resource Economist and holds an MSc in Environmental Change & Management from the University of Oxford. He has worked with mining companies on various aspects of sustainability, including community development, stakeholder management and climate change. He serves on the National Business Initiative’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change, the Carbon Markets Investors Association Working Groups on Africa and REDD, and on the World Resources Institute’s GHG Reporting Protocol. Rohitesh has been appointed as a Young African Leader for the 2013-14 Class of the Young Africa Leadership Initiative.

 

Mutuso Dhliwayo is a lawyer and Director of the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA). He holds a Masters Degree in Environment and Development from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and a Bachelor of Laws Honours degree from the University of Zimbabwe. His work with ZELA focuses on using the law to protect rights of communities and the environment by amplifying their voices in the policy and decision making processes through legal and policy research, advocacy, impact litigation, conflict resolution, training and capacity building. He is coordinating the implementation of the Pillars in Practice Project based on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights focusing on the mining sector in Zimbabwe. The project is being implemented in partnership with the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Social Accountability International. The project ‘s focus is on how Government, the private sector and Civil Society Organisations can work together to identify, prevent and reduce the negative impacts of mining on communities’ Environmental, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (EESCR).

Mutuso Dhliwayo sits in various boards. These include the Global Green Grants-Southern Africa, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association, Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Programme- Zimbabwe, Action 24, Southern Africa Community Based Natural Resources Management Forum, National Steering Committee Member for IUCN-the World Conservation Union-Zimbabwe Office, Private Voluntary Organisations and the National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations.

 

Mr. Dorward has over 17 years of experience in mining and finance and most recently served as Vice-President, Business Development at Fronteer Gold prior to the Company’s sale to Newmont Mining for $2.3 billion in 2011. Previously, Mr. Dorward was the CFO of Mineral Deposits Ltd.

 

Dr Morné du Plessis is the Chief Executive Officer of WWF South Africa, a national office of one of the world’s largest and most respected independent environmental and conservation organisations. He has presented keynote lectures and scientific presentations at a wide range of local and international conferences. He has also served on a large number of committees and boards of conservation NGOs, government funding allocation committees and academic institutions, authored or co-authored over 50 scientific publications in the fields of conservation biology and behavioural ecology, and published two books. For his research excellence, he was awarded the National Research Foundation’s President’s Award. In 2000, he was listed among the Mail & Guardian’s “Most Promising 100 Young South Africans in the New Millennium”.

 

I started with Maptek in 2004, coming from a career in information management. In 2005 I started working closely with the I-Site Laser scanner and associated software and have helped develop the technology alongside the production facility in Adelaide, Australia. I have used the technology on multiple sites and for varying applications and will present some of those applications in my talk.

 

John joined First Solar as Director of Fuel Replacement Solutions to launch the company’s activity into the emerging Hybrid market. John has applied his Mechanical Engineering qualification for over 15 years within the power generation industry globally. He has experience working with leading Original Equipment Manufacturers, Independent Power Producers and multinational EPC Contractors within the Power Industry.

 

I have been with Maptek since 2008 as part of the technical services department. I started off my career at Anglo Base Metals and is a Mine Surveyor and Planning Engineer by trade primarily focused on Underground operations in metalliferous mining.

 

Dorian Emmett, in his current role as Global Head of Safety & Sustainable Development with Anglo American, divides his work commitments between his home base in Johannesburg at Anglo American’s Corporate Office, and the Head Office of the company, which is located in Central London.

Dorian’s career in the mining industry spans 38 years. As a young engineering graduate from the University of the Witwatersrand, Dorian’s technical expertise was gained working with some of the long-established mining companies on the Reef, such as the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company and the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company. At the same time, Dorian’s strong leadership and negotiating skills were being strengthened and built upon through management development programmes and strategic leadership courses, which he attended both in South Africa and the United Kingdom. He obtained a Masters in Business Leadership (Cum Laude) from the University of South Africa.

Dorian was appointed to his present role with Anglo American in 2004 having spent more than 20 years previously with Anglo Platinum. Following his appointment as Consulting Engineer at Platinum Mine Refineries in 1993, Dorian was appointed Technical Director at Anglo Platinum in 1994, followed two years later by his appointment to the role of Commercial Director. Dorian’s career at Platinum culminated in his appointment in 2001 as Chief Operating Officer of the company. His ties with Platinum are still maintained in his current S&SD role, primarily as Chair of the Safety and Sustainability Committee, and as a member of the Social and Ethics Committee.

For five years Dorian has played a key role in the establishment and work of the Anglo American Safety and Health Tripartite Initiative in South Africa, where government, organised labour and the company act jointly to improve performance in the key areas.

He is currently Chair of the Principal Liaisons Committee of the International Council on Mining and Metals.

 

Hermann Erdmann, CEO of REDISA NPC, is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in the manufacturing and retail sectors having served on a number of industry related boards.

His interest in sustainable leadership, his drive for senior management to focus on environmental sustainability as part of a company’s strategy, and his passion for transformation and empowerment of the previously disadvantaged, resulted in the establishment of REDISA and the development of the first approved Integrated Industry Waste Management Plan.

 

Magnus Ericsson is co-founder of the Raw Materials Group (RMG) and an executive director of IntierraRMG. He is professor of mineral at the Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. His interest in the social, political and economic impacts of mining goes back to the 1970s. Magnus Ericsson has a special focus on iron ore and mining in developing countries. He advises ceconomicsompanies and countries all over the world. His involvement in African iron ore includes projects in Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Liberia, Mauritania, Nigeria and others. Magnus Ericsson has been building a network in China since over 10 years and the annuaöl iron ore market study by the RMG is being translated into Chinese beginning 2013.

He obtained his MSc in biochemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1973. He is a member of the European Union’s European Innovation Partnership Raw Materials and also engaged by the African Union Commission in setting up the African Mineral Development Centre.

 

 

Norman is primarily engaged in securities law with an emphasis on public offerings of securities, mergers and acquisitions, and takeovers. His practice also involves private placements of debt and equity securities, mining law and general corporate transactions. Norman has been recognized by Lexpert as a leading practitioner in the mining finance area, and by The Best Lawyers in Canada in the Natural Resources Law area. He has also spoken at a number of conferences in Canada and South America on topics relating to securities and mining law.

 

For more than 20 years, international financier Robert Friedland has been a recognized figure among the leaders of the global financial sector and mineral resource industries who have influenced investment decisions and contributed to economic growth in established and emerging markets in Asia, the Asia Pacific Region, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.

Mr.Friedland is Chairman of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, his family’s private company founded in 1987 and now with operations based in Singapore, Beijing and London. Ivanhoe Capital specializes in the provision of venture capital and project financing for international business enterprises, predominantly in the fields of minerals, energy and advanced technology. With his leadership, Ivanhoe executives and more than 15 benefiting, public and private companies that have been affiliated with Ivanhoe Capital have raised a total of more than US$10 billion on world capital markets since 1993. This capital has been invested in more than 30 nations, directed primarily at the discovery and production of mineral and energy resources and the development and application of innovative exploration, processing and communications technologies.

 

Pr Eng BSc Mech Eng (Ind Opt), University of the Witwatersrand; BCompt, University of South Africa

Mr Froneman was appointed an executive director and chief executive officer of Sibanye Gold effective 1 January 2013. He has over 30 years of operational, corporate development and mining industry experience. Mr Froneman was appointed CEO of Aflease Gold Limited, in April 2003. Aflease Gold, through a series of reverse takeovers, became Gold One in May 2009 and Mr Froneman was primarily responsible for the creation of Uranium One Inc., from the Aflease Gold uranium assets. During this period, he was chief executive officer of both Aflease Gold and Uranium One until his resignation in February 2008. Prior to joining Aflease Gold, Mr Froneman also held executive and senior management positions at Gold Fields, Harmony Gold and JCI Limited.

 

Eleni Gabre-Madhin is co-founder and chief executive of eleni LLC, a newly formed company with equity investments by Morgan Stanley and IFC (International Finance Corporation) that is positioned to be the industry leader in designing, building, and supporting the operations of commodity exchange eco-systems in frontier markets. The company’s business model is to deliver exchange turnkey projects on a Private-Public Partnership (PPP) basis. Eleni Gabre-Madhin is founder and former CEO of the highly acclaimed Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX), which she founded and managed from 2008 to late 2012, successfully trading $1.2 billion in 3 years.

A globally recognized thought leader on agricultural commodity markets, she has held prior roles at the World Bank, the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, and UNCTAD in Geneva. Eleni Gabre-Madhin has a PhD in applied economics from Stanford University, an MSc in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University, and BA in economics from Cornell University, and was awarded Outstanding Dissertation by the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1999.

Eleni Gabre-Madhin was recently selected among 100 Most Influential Africans, and awarded the coveted Yara Prize for Agricultural Transformation in Africa and the African Banker Icon in 2012. She was named among 50 Women Shaping Africa by The Africa Report in 2011, nominated Outstanding African Businesswoman in 2010, and selected as Ethiopian Person of the Year in 2009. ECX is the first company in Africa to receive the prestigious global CIO100 Award for IT excellence applied to business in 2011 and was named Agricultural Initiative of the Year by Africa Investor in 2011.

 

Tyler Gillard is a Head of Project and Legal Adviser at the OECD Investment Division.

He joined the OECD in 2009 and has helped lead the development and implementation of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. Before joining the OECD, Tyler was a fellow in international law at Columbia Law School, where he worked on responsible business conduct, international investment law and human rights and transparency in primary extractive contracts.

Tyler has also worked with Human Rights Watch and, for a number of years, on local development and public-private dialogue throughout India.

 

Brad Gordon was appointed as CEO of ABG in August 2013 and was previously the CEO of Intrepid Mines. He has 30 years of experience in the gold mining industry and holds a Mining Engineering degree from the Western Australia School of Mines and an Executive MBA from INSEAD, France.

 

Bruce Gosper is CEO of Austrade, the Australian Government agency responsible for promoting trade, investment and international education, and tourism policy, programs and research.

Prior to Austrade, Mr Gosper was Deputy Secretary with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His distinguished career includes roles as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization in Geneva and Minister (Commercial) at the Australian Embassy in Washington.

 

Eddie Grieve is Senior Manager, Listing Business Development at ASX. He has had extensive experience in all aspects of capital markets over a period of 30 years.

Eddie has served in a number of senior roles at ASX including Head of Listing. He has been closely involved in major floats and primary equity market raisings throughout his career and in his current role at ASX he is responsible for growing the ASX listing business and developing and promoting access to the ASX equity capital market.

Eddie frequently presents on IPO and listing issues and works closely with companies considering listing on ASX to help them achieve their objectives.

 

Brian came to SA in the 1990′s with DeBeers. He joined Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) in 1994. He became a Partner with PWC London in 1999. Brian in 2003 opened his own consulting company, until joining EOH in 2006. Brian is the EOH Business Development Director.

 

David Hale is a Chicago-based global economist and founding chairman of David Hale Global Economics. His clients include financial institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Hale writes for major publications and is a member of various institutions and organizations such as the National Association of Business Economists, Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Competitive Markets Advisory Council of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and many others. China Takes Off, published in Foreign Affairs in 2003 and written jointly with his wife Lyric Hughes Hale, is one of the most oft-cited surveys of China’s economic ascendency. Their newest publication, “What’s Next? Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the Global Economy” published by Yale University Press in 2011.

 

 

Terry Heymann joined the World Gold Council in February 2010. Managing the Gold for Development programme, Terry is responsible for the World Gold Council’s work around the positive socio-economic contribution that gold and gold mining can make, particularly for developing countries. Terry led the development of the Conflict-Free Gold Standard and the All-In Costs Guidance Note, working closely with our Member companies.

Prior to joining the World Gold Council, Terry was a Principal at Marakon Associates, a leading strategy consultancy, where he helped clients in a number of industries on strategic issues and new product development.

 

 

Nick Holland has been CEO of Gold Fields – the world's fourth largest gold miner – since 2008. Prior to that he was CFO of the company for 10 years. Under Nick the company has introduced its vision of “Being the global leader in sustainable gold mining” and has made significant strides in becoming a truly global mining company with operating mines in four countries and advanced stage development projects in another four. An all-or-nothing approach to safety – “we will not mine if we cannot do so safely” – underpins the company's production, while there has also been a strong emphasis on sound community relations and significantly reducing the company's environmental footprint. Sustainability is engrained in the company's way of doing business. Before joining Gold Fields Nick held senior position in other South Africa mining companies, including Impala Platinum and Gencor. He joined the mining industry in 1990 from accounting firm Deloitte where he spent the first 11 years of his professional career after graduating with a B.Com and B.Acc from Wits University. Nick matriculated at King Edwards VII School in Johannesburg.

 

Frank Holmes is CEO and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Global Investors, Inc., which manages a diversified family of mutual funds and hedge funds specializing in natural resources, emerging markets and infrastructure.

The company’s funds have earned many awards and honors during Mr. Holmes’ tenure, including more than two dozen Lipper Fund Awards and certificates.

The Global Resources Fund (PSPFX) was Lipper’s top-performing global natural resources fund in 2010. In 2009, the World Precious Minerals Fund (UNWPX) was Lipper’s top-performing gold fund, the second time in four years for that achievement. In addition, both funds received 2007 and 2008 Lipper Fund Awards as the best overall fund in their respective categories.

Mr. Holmes was 2006 mining fund manager of the year for Mining Journal, a leading publication for the global resources industry, and he is co-author of “The Goldwatcher: Demystifying Gold Investing.”

He is also an advisor to the International Crisis Group, which works to resolve global conflict, and the William J. Clinton Foundation on sustainable development in nations with resource-based economies.

Mr. Holmes was previously a research analyst, portfolio manager and managing director of corporate finance in Canada. He is a former president and chairman of the Toronto Society of the Investment Dealers Association, and he served on the Toronto Stock Exchange’s Listing Committee.

Mr. Holmes is a much-sought-after keynote speaker at national and international investment conferences. He is also a regular commentator on the financial television networks, and has been profiled by Fortune, Barron’s, The Financial Times and other publications.

 

Yoshihiko ISOZAKI is a parliamentary Vice Minister of Japan’s METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

 

R. Michael Jones brings over 25 years of experience as a professional geological engineer and has been involved with the raising of over $450 million for exploration, mining development and production. He was a founder of Glimmer Resources Inc. and was responsible for the discovery of the Glimmer Gold mine, now Blackfox, in Ontario. During a six-year tenure as President of Cathedral Gold Corp., Mr. Jones ran a producing mining company and was involved in the review of a feasibility study and financing for a $1 billion mining project during two years as Vice President with Aber Resources.

Mr. Jones is President, CEO & Director of West Kirkland Mining Inc.; a director of Nextraction Energy Corp.; a co-founder and former director of MAG Silver Corp.; a co-founder of former director of West Timmins Mining which was purchased in 2009 by Lake Shore Gold Corp. Mr. Jones served on the Securities Policy Advisory Committee of the British Columbia Securities Commission for six years and holds a B.A.Sc. in geological engineering from the University of Toronto.

 

Martin Kalter was born in 1962 in Purmerend in the Netherlands. After graduating with an electrical and mechanical engineering degree from Hendrik de Keyser School of Technical Studies in Amsterdam, Martin Kalter began his career in 1982 as electrical engineer at Royal Dutch Shell in Amsterdam. In 1984, he moved to Stork-Werkspoor Diesel (SWD) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands holding various positions in the order management, when Wärtsilä acquired SWD in 1989 he held various positions within Wärtsilä in order management and sales of power plants using reciprocating engine technology. In 1992 he was in charge of the order execution in Indonesia and in 1997 heading the branch office in Nicaragua.

In April 2000 he joined MAN Diesel & Turbo SE in Germany and was from 2001 to 2005 in charge of the order execution in India (2001-02) and Honduras (2003-05), started in 2006 as in-charge for the business development and sales for world-wide independent power producers and in January 2011 became Vice President Sales for power plants, he moved to Johannesburg, South Africa in October 2013 as Vice President Sales Sub Sahara Africa for MAN Diesel & Turbo. Martin Kalter is since 2009 member of the board of directors of Atlas Power Ltd in Pakistan a 225 MW residual fuel oil fired Engine Combined Cycle power plant operating with 11x 18V48/60 MAN reciprocating engines and an 18 MW steam turbine.

 

Gavin Keeton was born and educated in Grahamstown, South Africa. He obtained a PhD in Economics from Rhodes University in 1984. Gavin worked as an economist at the Development Bank of Southern Africa and then at Standard Bank Investment Corporation before joining the economics office of Anglo American in 1990. As Chief Economist from 2001 until March 2008 Gavin was responsible for advising the Anglo American group on developments in the global economy and in financial markets and their implications for the mining industry.

In 2009 Gavin returned to Grahamstown as an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Economic History. He writes a fortnightly macroeconomic policy column in Business Day.

 

 

Elaine Dorward-King was elected Executive Vice President of Sustainability and External Relations in March 2013. Prior to joining Newmont, Dr. Dorward-King served as Managing Director of Richards Bay Minerals in South Africa from December 2010 through February 2013. Dr. Dorward-King previously served as the Global Head of Health, Safety and Environment at Rio Tinto from 2002 through 2010 and also held leadership positions with Rio Tinto’s copper and borates businesses. Prior to that, she worked for Ebasco Environmental and for Monsanto Company as a chemist, research specialist and product manager.

Dr. Dorward-King brings twenty-five years of leadership experience in developing and implementing sustainable development, safety, health and environmental strategy and programs in the mining, chemical and engineering consulting sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude from Maryville College and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the Colorado State University.

 

Mxolisi Kota is the Chief Executive Officer of the Council for Geoscience. He is a Professionally Registered Natural Scientist, Member of SAIMM (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy), Fellow of GSSA (Geological Society of South Africa) and Fellow of SEG (Society of Economic Geologists).

 

Mr. Kouakou is a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM) at Wits University where he teaches strategic government communications and scenario planning and the discipline of anticipation. He is the former director of the Unilever Mandela Rhodes Academy for Communications and Marketing (UMRA), a storyteller, social commentator, business strategist, author and futurist.

He specialises in information communications technologies for development and telecommunications adapted to sustainable environmental management issues in Africa.

He has facilitated Anglo Platinum, Rio Tinto Africa Strategy workshops on communications strategy, Communities and Engagement Development with a particular focus on the changing Mining environment and strategies for a new Mining order.

He is a senior associate member and media contact of Mining Dialogues 360 Degrees, a non-partisan mining dialogue facilitation platform set up in July 2012 to bring together the mining industry stakeholders in South Africa. He is also one of the team working on Lonmin Economic Footprint Research currently completing a report on the economic footprint of Lonmin in South Africa.

He is a founding member of Timbuktu9 Africa Consulting Group, an all-Africa management consulting advisory group.

He is an Africa analyst expert, fluent in French and has also done work in Francophone Africa.

He was the co-ordinator of the Program on Environment Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa with the World Bank in Washington, DC. He also served as the co-Director of the CSIR Virtual Reality Solutions in Pretoria, South Africa. He has been a regular Africa regional and media contributor to international, local media and business magazines such as the Al Jazeera, ANN7, BBC, France24, Deutsche Welle, CNN, SABC, SAfm, eNCA, VOA, The People’s Daily in China, Brainstorm, The Media, CIO.COM, Intelligence and Brainstorm in South Africa.

 

With more than 15 years of experience, Henrik Kragh managing our group charter & project team based in Copenhagen. Servicing a wide range of tailor made logistics solution for the mining industry as well as United Nations and World Food Programme.

 

Mr. Kumar is the driving force behind the African operations – Jindal Africa. Laying a solid foundation where the company has launched its operations on the African continent. Mr. Kumar, ensuring that Jindal Africa lives up to its promise of entrenching its foothold in Africa, has already set the pace with numerous exploration projects identified and two projects achieving operational state. In continuing with his drive, energy and vision towards establishing Jindals latest Greenfield’s iron ore project in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Jindal Africa sees tremendous potential in leveraging Africa’s great mineral wealth in partnership with local stakeholders, and to the mutual benefit of the continent’s local communities.

Khanyisile Kweyama was appointed Executive Director of Anglo American South Africa in September 2012.

Khanyisile is the first woman to hold the position of executive director at Anglo American in South Africa, and she is a member of the Anglo American group executive committee.

Prior to this, Khanyisile was executive head of human resources at Anglo American’s Platinum business where she was successful in building a cohesive management team, driving performance and improving relationships with unions. She has also been elected as the vice president of the South African Chamber of Mines.

Born in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, Khanyisile started her university education at Fort Hare University, and in 1984, joined the ANC in Swaziland. She settled in the USA where she worked closely with the ANC office in Washington DC while studying for a BS Administration qualification. She returned to South Africa in 1991 when the ANC was unbanned and worked for the Consultative Business Movement (CBM) as part of its CODESA secretariat.

An accomplished business woman, she set up her own consulting companies – Nokusa Communications and Promotions, and a Human Resources Consultancy, KTK HR Solutions.

Khanyisile has gained extensive managerial experience working for various reputable organisations, such as BMW, Altech and Barloworld.

She has served as a non-executive director at various companies including the boards of Sovereign Foods Ltd, IAC and Key Mix Investments, and currently serves on the boards of Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) and Telkom.

Her HR experience, especially around transformation, helped as she served as a member of the Commission for Employment Equity (CEE), a Section 9 body established to advise the Minister of Labour. Khanyisile also serves on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) board.

Recently, she was honoured as one of the Most Influential Women in South Africa by CEO Communications. Awarded to women in business she was recognized for her leading role in the Resources and Integration category.

Khanyisile is also a trustee of the Sentebale Trust – founded by Prince Harry of the UK and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho which works with vulnerable children. She has recently joined the NEPAD Business Foundation as a board member.

She holds a Postgraduate Diploma and a Masters Degree in Management from the Wits Business School, and also completed various executive development programmes with GIBS and other institutions.

 

Richard Lachcik acts for corporations in connection with securities issuances, including initial public offerings, prompt offering qualification system issuances, MJDS offerings, reverse takeovers, and private placements. Mr. Lachcik’s extensive experience also includes mergers and acquisitions, general corporate matters, mutual fund filings, and acting for registrants under the Ontario Securities Act in compliance matters. Mr. Lachcik is one of the Canadian heads of our infrastructure, mining and commodities practice.

 

Jeff Lavers is Vice President and General Manager at 3M Mining, Oil and Gas Division. He oversees 3M’s worldwide Mining, Oil and Gas Division. Laver’s tenure of more than 20 years at 3M has included 15 years working in 3M’s oral care businesses and various positions in sales, marketing, general and international management.

 

Jim Lennon is now a consultant to Macquarie. Until June 2013, he was Chairman of Commodities at Macquarie, having worked for Macquarie for 19 years. He headed up a 10 person research team in London, Singapore and Shanghai which services the equity, LME trading and corporate advisory divisions of the bank with steel, coal, metals and minerals research and market intelligence.

Jim and his team at Macquarie were regularly been ranked number one in various surveys of commodities research among equity investors for over a decade.
Jim has 33 years of experience in researching the international metals and mining industries.

Prior to joining Macquarie, Jim spent 10 years at CRU International Ltd in London, where he headed up research in nickel, stainless steel and steel-making raw materials. Before joining CRU, Jim worked as a marketing analyst at New Zealand Steel. He has also worked as an Associate Director of Metals and Mining Research at Shearson Lehman Hutton Securities.

 

Peter Leon is a Partner and head’s the mining sector group at law firm Webber Wentzel. His principal areas of practice are mineral and petroleum law (and international best practice), BEE, and international investment law. He has spoken extensively on the topic of the Marikana tragedy and the social licence to operate.

 

Hwee Ling is a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and Certified Public Accountants of Australia with almost 13 years of experience in Singapore. She specialises in reporting accountant services for initial public offerings and international placement of bonds/notes, and has conducted several IPO seminars across the region

Mike Loch is the Director, Supply Chain Corporate Responsibility for Motorola Solutions Inc. He is responsible for Motorola’s Global Supplier Corporate Responsibility Program. Mike is on the Governance Committee of the Public Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade and co-chairs the Conflict Free Sourcing Initiative that has developed the Conflict Free Smelter Program and Conflict Minerals Reporting Template. Mike has been active in the development of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High Risk Area and serves as the industry representative on the OECD Forum’s Multi-stakeholder Steering Group. He has participated in numerous meetings with U.S. Government officials including the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), US State Department, Government Accountability Office, US Agency for International Development. and the Congressmen who sponsored section 1502 of Dodd Frank.

During his trips to the DRC and Rwanda, Mike was able to visit mine sites, trading houses, NGO’s and regional governmental representatives to gain a local perspective of the issues and challenges. Mike continues to work with numerous stakeholders including the US State Department, NGOs and Central African governmental entities to try to improve the conditions on the ground. Mike is a graduate of Montana College of Minerals Science and Technology.

 

Guy Lundy is a Principal Consultant in the Cape Town office of Odgers Berndtson and focuses on the Energy, Consumer and Technology sectors.

Until recently, Guy was the CEO of Accelerate Cape Town, a business think-tank and stakeholder grouping representing fifty of the biggest companies in Cape Town. He has 15 years’ experience in management consulting, including having run his own international corporate strategy consultancy. He has also worked for international firms such as Ernst & Young, Oracle, the London Stock Exchange and Dimension Data, during several years of living on four continents.

Guy is a well-known keynote speaker, focusing on the future of business in Africa and is a Director on the Boards of several South African organisations.

Guy completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Economics at the University of Cape Town and his Masters in Futures Studies at Stellenbosch University. He is the author of two books about South Africa and its future, and in 2009 he was listed as one of the ‘Top 100 Thinkers in South Africa’ by the Business Day newspaper.

 

A University of Cape Town graduate Chemical and Mineral Processing Engineer: He worked as a Mineral Processing Engineer at De Beers; policy and strategy development (Department of Science and Technology) before his current position. In this position, his vision is to improve the competitiveness of the mining and minerals sector.

 

Ben joined Lonmin as its new CEO on 1 July 2013. He has a 22 year distinguished career at the leading edge of the mining industry which has included a number of positions within the Anglo American Group. Ben is a Zimbabwean national and has a degree in Mining Engineering.

 

Itumeleng Mahabane leads Brunswick South Africa and has been working in media and communication for more than 17 years. He joined Brunswick in September 2006 and since then has advised a number of major South African corporations and institutions. He has worked on major M&A transactions, listings, corporate defense projects and corporate positioning mandates.

Before joining Brunswick he was partner at a public affairs and communication firm where he provided end-to-end communication advice to a number of state owned enterprises, including Transnet, South African Airways and Eskom.

Mahabane was a multiple award winning journalist, including the Sanlam financial journalist of the year, and has written for the Mail and Guardian, the Sunday Times, Business Day and the Financial Mail. He has contributed to a number of books on political economy and black economic empowerment. He currently writes a political economy column for Business Day. Mahabane is a member of the Board of Trustee of Equal Education Law Centre.

 

Lord Mandelson is Chairman of Global Counsel, a strategic advisory firm and Chairman of Lazard International. He is a former European Trade Commissioner and British First Secretary of State. He was European Trade Commissioner between 2004 and 2008, during which time he negotiated trade agreements with many countries and led European negotiations in the WTO Doha World Trade Round. He was Minister without Portfolio, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Northern Ireland Secretary and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the British government under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown between 1997 and 2010. He was Member of Parliament for Hartlepool in the UK from 1992 until 2004 and Director of Campaigns and Communications for the Labour party between 1985 and 1990. He is President of the Policy Network think tank. In 2010, he published his autobiography The Third Man (Harper Collins).

 

Mining engineer with more than 30 years of management, mining and processing experience. Mr McFadzean, Dip. Mining, FAusIMM, more recently served as CEO/Managing Director of Evolution Mining Limited (ASX:EVN) (formerly Catalpa Resources Limited (ASX:CAH)) from 2008 until early 2012. Mr McFadzean is a Non-Executive Director of Venture Minerals Limited (ASX:VMS).

 

Paulina has 18 years of experience in equities, having worked in sales, research and management positions with Baring Asset Management, Lehman Brothers and CLSA. In 2004, Mrs McGroarty started NASDAQ’s listings business in Russia. In 2009, she joined Citigroup as Head of Corporate Access for EMEA.

Paulina holds an MSc from the London School of Economics.

 

Mr. Melrose’s experience ranges from early stage exploration through to mine operations for both open pit and underground mining. As CEO of True Gold, Mr. Melrose has direct managerial responsibility for the Company’s activities and strategic planning. He previously held senior positions with Cameco Corporation/Centerra Gold and Minco Mining Group.

 

Martha Mokonyane is responsible for Environmental management at Department of Mineral Resources, Mpumalanga Region. She holds a degree in Environmental Management from Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and has worked extensively in the environmental field for companies including Eskom, Enviro-Afrik and DMR. She part of the team responsible for licensing integration process with the Department of Water Affairs and Department of Environmental of Affairs.

 

Mr. Lumkile Mondi is currently employed by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) in Johannesburg, South Africa as a Chief Economist.

He is a member of the State Owned Enterprises Presidential Review Committee. Previously Mr Mondi served as a member of President Mbeki’s Economic Advisory Panel. He serves on the Boards of ArcelorMittal South Africa and Yard Capital.

His professional interests include financial economics, trade and political economy. He has written and presented at conferences on economic development problems faced by the South African economy.
He enjoys trekking cycling, photography and all sports. Mr Mondi is an avid reader of philosophy, economics and history books.

 

Andrew has enjoyed a successful stock broking career spanning 30 years during which time he has nurtured strong relationships with many major UK institutions. He was employed by Hoare Govett ABN AMRO for 11 years before founding Oriel Securities from scratch as Joint CEO, and which grew to employ nearly 100 people and had a valuation of approximately £40million under his leadership. Andrew later became CEO of Blue Oar Plc, where he successfully turned around its UK securities operations and its private client division as well as starting an asset management division. During his period as CEO, Blue Oar Plc he made three successful acquisitions.

Andrew brings to the company strong corporate relationships, a track record of success and “knows his way round the city”. Andrew is a keen sportsman and joined the group on

 

Mpho Mothoa is Managing Director of Richards Bay Minerals and Rio Tinto Country Head for South Africa since 1 June 2013. Prior to that, Mpho was Chief Operating Officer for Rössing Uranium Ltd in Namibia. A chemical engineer by profession, Mpho has more than sixteen years’ experience in mining where he has held various operational and senior leadership roles focusing on championing operational excellence and cost containment.

He is married to Dorcas and have been blessed with three sons and a daughter.

 

 

 

 

 

Winston Hugh Njongonkulu Ndungane was born in Kokstad, South Africa on 2 April 1941. He graduated from Lovedale High School, Alice, in December 1958. During March 1960 he was involved in anti- Pass Law Demonstrations while a student at the University of Cape Town. From August 1963 to August 1966 he served a three-year sentence on Robben Island as a political prisoner.

While in prison, Njongonkulu received a call to serve God in the ordained ministry. He was made Deacon in December 1973 and ordained priest in July 1974. He served his title and first curacy at St Mark’s Parish Athlone in the Diocese of Cape Town. In June 1979 he was awarded a Master of Theology degree in Christian Ethics, also at King’s College. On his return to South Africa in 1980 he was appointed the Rector of St Nicholas, Matroosfontein. In September 1996 he was elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

He has been awarded several honorary degrees:- His own book, A World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa, part-autobiography and part- record of some speeches and sermons, was published in 2003. In 2008 Faith in Action – an exploration in contemporary public theology in honour of, and in dialogue with the Archbishop by South African and international church leaders, theologians and civil society figures, was published. The biography of Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane: ‘From Robben Island to Bishopscourt’ was launched in August 2011.

The Archbishop has been deeply involved in campaigns to abolish odious debt of developing countries in Africa working with the Jubilee 2000 Campaign. He has been part of various coalitions campaigning on poverty alleviation, and championing the causes around HIV/AIDS.

In 2006 he launched African Monitor. Njongonkulu Ndungane was appointed Chair of Council of the University of Cape Town in 2008. In October 2009 he was awarded the Drivers of Change Award, for his lifelong commitment to place the poor at the center of social and economic policies.

Archbishop Ndungane continues to be recognised for his dedication and was bestowed the Order of the Grand Counsellor of the Baobab: Silver by President Thabo Mbeki in April 2008.

 

Phil Newman is the CEO of CRU Strategies, the consultancy division of the CRU Group. Prior to joining CRU in 2006, Phil was a Principal with Golder Associates and a specialist in the field of paste technology, spending 10 years designing and constructing paste plants across the globe. Phil has a BSc Hons in Physics and a Masters in Mining Engineering from McGill University, Montreal.

 

Nicky is the CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. She is a lawyer by training with a BA LLB from the University of Stellenbosch and a first class LLM from the University of Cambridge. She has been with the JSE for nearly 18 years where she has held numerous roles, of which 8 years were as Deputy CEO. Nicky is now in her 3rd year as CEO.

 

Chief executive of Gecamines Sarl since 2010, Ahmed Kalej Nkand had a career a the Central Bank of Congo, as analyst and deputy head of the public financial department. Provincial Director of the Central Bank then Director of the Treasury in the Central Bank of Congo with a major role in the implementation of two monetary reforms.

 

Sipho Nkosi was born on 29 April 1954 at Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal and his career has enabled him to develop a depth of experience in the energy and coal sectors both locally and internationally.

Sipho is the CEO of Exxaro Resources Limited. Prior to this, Sipho was one of the founders and CEO of Eyesizwe Coal. Prior to Eyesizwe Coal, Sipho was Country Manager of ABB Alstom Power (SA), having previously worked with Anglo Coal and Ingwe. He was Export Marketing Co-ordinator in the international marketing division of Anglo Coal from 1986 to 1991. In 1992 Sipho joined Ingwe as the Marketing Manager responsible for international coal marketing. This position involved extensive travel and provided him with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the coal industry worldwide.

Sipho serves on a number of company boards including Sanlam. Sipho is a Past President of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa and has been serving on the Executive Council of the Chamber since November 2006. Previously he served as Chairman of the Chamber’s Collieries Committee.

Sipho holds the following degrees: BCom (University of Zululand), BCom (Hons)(Econ)(Unisa), MBA (University of Massachusetts, Boston) and a Diploma in Marketing Management (Unisa) and in July 2009 he completed the Advanced Management Programme at the University of Oxford in the UK.

In November 2012 Sipho was the South African winner in the Master Entrepreneur Category of the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Award and represented South Africa at the global awards in Monte Carlo in June 2013. On 18 October 2013 he received the Tinie Louw Award at the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut’s National Congress for his business leadership.

Sipho is married to Nondili and has three children. His biggest passion in life is to be involved in charity work and when time permits, he works out in the gym and listens to classical music.

 

Throughout Glenn’s career as a prospector, entrepreneur, politician and executive is characterized by considerable change. Beginning his exploration career in the late 1970’s in Northern Saskatchewan and later in the Northwest Territories, he quickly realized the importance of working closely with aboriginal communities that were located nearby the projects he was working on. He made it a top priority to hire and train a local labour force, bringing direct benefits for the community and for his company.

As Chief of the Missanabie Cree he realized the importance of active communication between companies, governments and his community to work through very difficult and challenging discussions.

Today, Glenn is recognized as a leading expert in building relations between indigenous communities and mineral exploration companies in Canada and Latin America. He continues to advise many companies on best practices for building positive working relationships with indigenous communities. He is committed to continuing greater dialogue between communities and the minerals industry here at home and internationally.

Besides his work in the mineral sector, Glenn continues to volunteer for a variety of social causes and programs supporting Indigenous people in Canada and in Latin America.

Currently Glenn is the Vice President, Aboriginal Affairs, for Noront Resources, a junior exploration company developing a nickel-copper deposit in the Ring of Fire Region of Northern Ontario; is a board member of a junior diamond explorer with active properties in Canada and Africa and he is the president of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, the first Aboriginal person ever to hold the post.

 

Mr Lionel October was appointed Director-General of the Department of Trade and Industry from 21 April 2011. Prior to his appointment as DG, he served as the Deputy Director-General (DDG) responsible for the enterprise and economic development portfolio, and served as an Economic and Trade diplomat at the South African Embassy in Brussels from 2007 to 2011. He was instrumental in key trade negotiations with the European Union.

Mr October holds legal degree from University of the Western Cape and a Masters Degree in Economics from University of London. As an experienced Economist, he held various senior positions related to trade unions, including being appointed as the General Secretary of the South African Clothing and Textile Union. He previously served on boards of a number of public policy bodies and government agencies, such as the IDC and the COEGA Development Corporation.

 

Mr Michael Oliver is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of CIBC World Markets, based in London, and is involved in the firm’s mining activities in Africa, Europe and Asia. He graduated from Nottingham University in 1976 with a joint mining/geology degree and from Wits Business School with an MBA in 1985.

Michael worked in the Zambian Copperbelt for 2 years before moving to Gold Fields in South Africa, where he worked for 6 years as a deep-level gold miner. In 1986, he joined James Capel’s mining team in London, which became HSBC Investment Bank over time. Michael moved to CIBC in 1996, where he advises international clients across a wide range of products and commodities.

 

Gail ONG has been involved in a wide range of capital markets and M&A transactions, including U.S.-registered and Rule 144A/Reg S equity and debt offerings by issuers in various industries in Asia, including Singapore, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Australia and Thailand. Gail is recommended as a leading lawyer in Singapore and Thailand by independent publications including Chambers; The Legal 500; Expert Guides; and IFLR 1000 and is qualified to practice in both New York and Singapore.

 

Yadaira Orsini is a political scientist from Javeriana University and holds a Master’s Degree on Security Studies in the Superior School of War, both in Bogota, Colombia. She has worked as a researcher on business, conflict and human rights issues in think tanks in Colombia and Brazil and has worked as Social Responsibility and Human Rights Coordinator in an oil company in Colombia.

Ms Orsini has experience in the work with communities and national and multinational companies from the extractive sector and others such as agribusiness and construction, in addressing security and human rights issues, stakeholder engagement and conflict transformation. Currently, Ms Orsini is working in International Alert as Senior Programme Officer for Latin America, where she coordinates the work on business and human rights issues with extractive companies, civil society organizations and state agencies in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.

 

Peter is a highly experienced natural resources sector investment banker with over 23-years of experience advising on many transactions in the sector, e.g.: Shenhua, CIC, BaoSteel and CGNPC. Prior to that, he was CEO and Founder of Kenosis Capital Partners and Head of Natural Resources at Deutsche Bank for Asia Pacific. He also worked for Credit Suisse for over 10-years in NY and Johannesburg.

 

Steve Parsons is the Managing Director and founder of Gryphon Minerals, one of the new generations of successful gold companies operating in West Africa.Steve successfully listed Gryphon in April 2004, and before that he held technical positions for a number of major mining houses, including Rio Tinto and Placer Dome.

 

 

Born in La Paz, Bolivia, Xavier obtained an M.Sc degree in Engineering Geology from the University Of San Andres in 1968, a Diploma in Mining and Exploration from the Montanistische Hochschule in Austria, a Graduate Diploma in Engineering from Wits’ Leadership in Coal Technology Programme and an M. Engineering degree from Wits in 2002.

Xavier has been involved in coal since 1977 and established the Geological Survey’s National Coal Database (NCDB) which he managed from 1979 until 1989. After a brief spell at General Mining (Genmin) as IT Exploration Manager, Xavier joined the Minerals Bureau – Department of Minerals and Energy in 1995, as Chief Mineral Economist for Coal and Hydrocarbons. In 2007, he was employed as Coal Senior Analyst at Wood Mackenzie, a global energy company involved in coal consulting and research in Southern Africa. Since 2009 Xavier has been consulting privately through his company, XMP Consulting.

During recent years, he has actively promoted South Africa’s coal mining industry as part of government and industry decision-making groups. He lectures at the Universities of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand as well as to several companies on various aspects of the local coal industry, including coal reserves, economics, quality, marketing and clean coal technologies. Xavier possesses extensive experience in South Africa’s coal reserves and resources. His main tasks comprise the optimisation of coal utilisation and marketing, the overview of economic empowerment in coal mining, evaluation of coal reserves, implementation of clean coal technologies and problems related to the environmental impact of the use of fossil fuels.

Xavier belongs to several local and international coal committees and groups involved in coal science and technology.

He has been awarded the Fossil Fuel Foundation’s Coal Annual Prestige Award for 2008.

 

Dr Thibedi Ramontja is Director-General of the Department of Mineral Resources since November 2011. Prior to this appointment he served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Council for Geoscience (CGS) in South Africa. He is a geologist by training and holds among others a Master of Science Degree (MSc Eng) and a PhD with the University of the Witwatersrand.

Dr Ramontja started his career in the 1980’s and has served the mining industry in various research and strategic leadership positions. He also served in the former Department of Minerals and Energy as Chief Director responsible for Mineral Economics. Together with his current position he also chaired the Petroleum Agency of South Africa (PASA) Board, the (PASA) Technical Committee Board, as well as that of the Pan African Mineral Development Company.

 

 

Graeme Robertson is the Executive Chairman of Intra Energy Corporation (ASX-IEC) with operating coal mines and power station projects in Tanzania and Malawi. Over the past 3
years, Graeme has developed and managed major global coal and infrastructure companies in Indonesia and Australia. He is a humanitarian and lives in Singapore.

 

Dr. Richard Robinson is Extractive Industries Technical Advisor, for the U.S. Agency for International Development in DRC. Since 2011 he has been coordinating and implementing the U.S. Government strategy in the DRC to address linkages among human rights abuses, armed groups, mining of conflict minerals, and commercial products. He has led USAID involvement in the multi-sectoral Public Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade including 28 end-user companies, four industry associations, NGO’s and Great Lakes governments to promote responsible in-region sourcing of conflict-free minerals.

Since 2003 Richard worked in the DRC in sustainable development and corporate social responsibility for Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Tenke Fungurume Mining’s (TFM) project in Katanga and for Pact, an international development NGO. He provided risk assessment and managed organizational responses in resettlement, artisanal mining and anti-corruption. Prior to returning to the DRC, where he was born and grew up, Richard worked in management education at the University of Fort Hare, in South Africa and the University of San Francisco. He has worked also in the U.S. and internationally in promoting equal employment and entrepreneurship for persons with disabilities through public-private partnerships.

 

Maximising Productivity, Operational Performance and Earnings while Curbing Costs, Focused on Long-Term Viability, Sharpening Ties with Boards, Clients, Regulators, Communities and Employees.

He is a recognized leader known for strategic vision to achieve business goals. Currently the CEO for Mota-Engil Africa, he is improving the efficiency and profitability of Africa Operations.

 

Mathieu Rouquié has more than 20 year experience selling lubricant, oil products and energy solutions worldwide for Industrial customers including mines. Within Total Solar Division, as head of the development department, he is in charge of developing hybrid Solar/Diesel solutions for Total, with Sunpower technology

 

 

Bruce Saxby qualified as a physical metallurgist in 1972. He has been involved in the South African Steel industry for over 40 years, with particular focus on Mining Applications. He has been involved in the development and application of wear and corrosion resistant steels and today operates as a consultant on the application of all steels for underground and open-cast mining operations throughout Africa.

 

Appointed to the Board in 2011. Mike Schmidt joined ARM as Executive: Platinum Operations in July 2007 after 13 years with Lonmin Platinum where he was Vice President Limpopo operations at the time he left the company. Prior to that, he was employed by Hartebeestfontein Gold Mining Company. Mike was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer Designate of ARM and an Executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 September 2011. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of ARM since 1 March 2012.

 

Susan Shabangu is the Minister of Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa as well as a member of the African National Congress’ National Working Committee. She serves on the National Executive Council (NEC) of African National Congress. Shabangu sat on the Board Directors of the 2010 FIFA World Cup LOC.

• Minister of Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa since 11 May 2009.
• Member of the African National Congress (ANC) National Working Committee since December 2007.
• Member of National Executive Council (NEC) of African National Congress (ANC).

Academic Qualifications

Attended Madibane High School in Soweto (1977).

Career/Positions/Memberships/Other Activities

• Became involved in political career since 1980.
• Assistant Secretary, Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), Federation of Transvaal (1980).
• Active member of the Anti-Republic Campaign Committee (1981).
• Involved in the formation of the Release Mandela Campaign Committee (1982).
• Organiser/Administrator for the Amalgamated Black Worker’s Project (1984 – 1985).
• Representative of the Transport and General Worker’s Union (T and GWU) at the Industrial Council.
• National Women’s Co-ordinator for the Transport and General Workers Union (T and GWU).
• Member of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) National Women’s Sub-Committee working with women’s issues and representing the T and GWU on National level.
• Involved in the voter education programme with COSATU National Election Task Team aimed at workers during the election campaign.
• Served in the ANC National Election Steering Committee. – Elected at a COSATU Special Congress as a regional candidate to the National Assembly (1994).
• Advisor to the September Commission assigned to look at future of the unions during transitional stage and later Member of Parliament.
• Has actively participated in committees such as Labour, Transport and Trade and Industry since 1994.
• Served in the ANC East Rand PCO Management Committee (1995 – 1996).
• Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Afrrica (April 1996 – April 2004).
• Vice-Chairperson of the National Labour and Development Institute.
• National Treasurer of SANCO
• Deputy Minister for Safety and Security of the Republic of South Africa from April 2004- 10 May 2009.. Source:The Presidency

 

Mr. Simpson is the Exec-Chairman of Peninsula Energy Limited a Wyoming and RSA focused energy developer. He is both a Science and Arts graduate from Curtin University, Western Australia. Mr. Simpson has over 25 years of experience in the management of listed resource companies with a focus on either minerals or energy; including uranium, oil, gas, gold, vanadium and mineral sands.

Mr. Simpson has had a principal involvement in a number of successful mineral discoveries in Africa, Australia and North America. Previously held positions include senior executive roles with Gindalbie Mining NL, Australian Minerals Sands NL, Panorama Resources NL and Tanganyika Gold Limited.

 

Keith Slack is the Global Program Manager of Oxfam America’s Extractive Industries team. He worked previously for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights in DC, Catholic Relief Services in Peru, and at the Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs in New York as a research fellow. He has published articles in Ethics and International Affairs, Human Rights Quarterly and the Los Angeles Times. He holds an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a B.A. from Vassar College.

 

Lara is Core Consultant’s Managing Director and founder. Lara began her career as an analyst for an asset management company in Cape Town, Foord Asset Management, where she gained experience in analyzing the South African platinum, gold and oil and soft commodity sectors. During this time she also edited a financial text book for Rhodes University as well as started a Mathematics Tuition project for 300 disadvantaged matric learners, through Mark Shuttle worth’s LEAP Science and Maths School.

She was then head hunted by the Steinmetz Group as the lead analyst, where she was responsible for sourcing, analysing and valuing potential mining acquisitions in Africa and the Baltic regions. The Steinmetz resource portfolio principally included diamonds and ferrous metals, but they did also have a small portfolio of base and minor metals including nickel, cobalt, copper and lithium.

Lara also contracted to Ernst & Young where she produced a consolidation template for the National Treasury and reviewed excel models for African Rainbow Minerals, Eskom and South African Government Infrastructure Projects. She also contracted to Metal Bulletin and produced the Metal Bulletin Lithium Markets Outlook report. This contract work formed the inception of Core Consultants. Since this time, Lara has engaged in a number of projects, including authoring the Metal Bulletin Coking Coal Study as well as market entry studies in coke, ferroalloys, manganese and lithium markets. She is presently co-authoring a quarterly publication on Lithium and Rare Earth Metals with Peter Harben, which will be available in April 2011.

Lara holds an Honors Degree in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management and a BSc-Ed in Chemistry, Statistics, Economics and Science and Mathematics Education both from the University of Cape Town (UCT). She is currently a CFA level 2 candidate.

 

 

 

Currently Technical Director of the 3M Mining, Oil & Gas Solutions Divisions, Jeff’s career spans 32 years in research and development at 3M. He has held assignments in the Corporate R&D labs as well as in the Industrial, Health Care and Consumer Businesses. Jeff has further held leadership positions in technical management driving development of innovative new products for 3M’s customers.

 

Stefania Trombetti has worked in the Government of Canada for over 23 years, in various policy domains, including the environment, health, and natural resources. She has extensive experience in international cooperation at the bilateral and regional levels. She was appointed Director General of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Policy Branch of Natural Resources Canada in November 2013.

 

James Turk is the founder and a director of GoldMoney, a Jersey, Channel Islands company and a leader in online gold trading. He is also a director of the GoldMoney Foundation, a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to providing information on sound money.

He has specialized in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in International Economics.

Beginning his business career with The Chase Manhattan Bank (now J.P. Morgan Chase), he also managed the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. The author of several monographs and numerous articles on money and banking, he is the co-author of The Collapse of the Dollar. His latest book just recently published is The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops.

 

Mark graduated and worked as a metallurgist for 12 years before joining the IDC of South Africa in 1996 where he developed and lent to large mining metal processing projects. In 2001, he joined the Nedbank Group and headed the resources lending unit until earlier this year. He is now responsible for developing Nedbank’s international resources investment banking offering.

 

Richard Vallihu is the Chief Executive for Transnet Engineering (TE), a division of Transnet SOC Ltd, since September 2005 to date. Transnet Engineering has approximately 13 500 employees working in 6 factories and 132 depots across the county.

In 1994, he joined Standard Bank, thereafter started his career with Transnet. During his 19 years in Transnet, he held various positions in Information Communication and Technology, Business Development and Strategy and Marketing before taking up his position as the Chief Executive of Transnet Engineering, he is also an Executive Committee member of Transnet SOC Ltd. He spearheaded Transnet Security Cluster for effective integration of all Transnet management security systems.

Richard also spearheaded the inception of Lean Six Sigma in November 2007, a significant milestone on the TE’s journey. Lean Six Sigma is an initiative to drive TE towards operational excellence to train and develop employees. TE archived a global first for Lean Six Sigma implementation on SAP.

He has been involved in voluntary work with the National Literacy Corporation. Richard has a passion for community engagement programmes, especially in the field of education.

TE’s Corporate Social Investment program, in alignment with the Transnet Foundation policies, is promoting educational CSI programmes in disadvantaged and impoverished communities in South Africa. The CSI projects of providing Containerised Computers Rooms and Library has been seen spreading in the different parts of the country.

Richard Vallihu is a South African with a BSc Honours Degree from University of Loughborough in UK and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia. Recently he achieved his Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School.

 

Kobus is the Founder and Group Managing Director of The Beijing Axis (www.thebeijingaxis.com), a China-focused international advisory and procurement firm operating in four principal areas: Commodities, Capital, Procurement and Strategy. Clients include global multinationals with a ‘China/Asia agenda’; and Chinese/Asian multinational firms with a ‘go-global agenda’.

Kobus has been working in Asia for over 18 years and is based in Beijing. Before founding The Beijing Axis, he was Head of Investment Strategy and Global Market Research for Asia Pacific for Standard Chartered Bank Plc and, prior to that, he was a Senior Strategy Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Asia. In his early career, he was an Emerging Market Investment Strategist in London; a Treasury Economist with Standard Merchant Bank in Johannesburg; and an Economist with the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria.

He holds an MBA from INSEAD in France, a Master of Business from Curtin in Australia and BCom Honours degrees in Finance/Investments and Economics, respectively from UJ and Unisa in South Africa.

He is regarded as a thought leader in China cross-border business, has published extensively and has been invited to present as the keynote speaker and to lead discussions in over 20 countries.

 

Nick’s career with KPMG spans over 27 years. Nick has specific experience in the auditing of chemical and mining companies which include gold, manganese, diamond, coal, chrome and zinc mines. Nick is the key subject matter expert for the manganese industry in South Africa and Africa.

Nick is an engagement partner on various assurance assignments which ranges from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) affiliated companies, Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) listed companies. Nick’s major client portfolio includes international manganese and gold companies.

Nick is the representative of KPMG South Africa for the Canadian Accountability Board (CPAB) and is accredited with CPAB to audit and sign off on Canadian listed companies outside of Canada. Nick has accounting expertise covering International Financial Reporting Standards, US GAAP, Canadian GAAP and significant SOX experience on various mining clients.

 

Venkat was appointed CEO in May, 2013 and was previously CFO for AngloGold Ashanti and Ashanti Goldfields. He has led successful effort to improve operating, overhead and capital costs, whilst bringing two new projects in on time and on budget and improving AngloGold Ashanti’s safety performance to its best levels ever.

 

Ernst Venter is an executive at Exxaro responsible for growth, technology, projects, services and the ferrous business. He has held various other senior leadership positions at the company relating to the coal, base metals and energy businesses and markets. Ernst holds BEng (hons), MBA, and advanced management programme (Insead) qualifications.

 

Mohan is a Principal with Partners in Performance (PIP). He has 16 years of experience in strategy, operations and capital projects, and has led projects in platinum, gold, fertiliser, steel, coal, mineral sands and LNG sectors and recently delivered 50-75% NPV improvement on two coal capital projects. He earned an MBA from Kellogg and BA (honours) Economics/Mathematics from Northwestern University.

 

Dr Declan Vogt is CSIR’s strategic research manager for the mining sector. A registered professional engineer, Vogt has designed geophysical tools such as radio tomography and borehole radar used to image underground terrains. He is a member of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) and of the South African Geophysical Association.

John Waters is Managing Partner, Global Practices and Projects at ERM and a member of ERM’s Senior Leadership Team. John has 30 years’ experience of strategy and implementation of sustainability related projects for major capital and resource projects, including 3 years with the SA Department of Water Affairs.

 

 

Orlee Wertheim is Head of the Global Mining Business Development team with Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange. She is responsible for the development and execution of the Exchanges global strategy for attracting new listings in the mining sector.

Ms. Wertheim joined the Business Development team from TSX’s Listed Issuer Services department, where her responsibilities included assisting companies through the listing application process and working with issuers listed on the TSX to structure transactions and to ensure compliance with TSX rules.

Prior to TSX, Ms. Wertheim worked as a corporate lawyer, where she acted for both domestic and international public companies.

Ms. Wertheim completed her law degree at University of Ottawa and is admitted to the Ontario Bar.

 

Neil Woodyer is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Endeavour Mining. He is responsible for implementing the Corporation’s strategic growth plan and co-ordinating and directing the management team. Mr. Woodyer has extensive experience in the mining sector developing, implementing and financing strategic growth plans.

 

Karen YEOH has been involved in a wide range of capital markets transactions, including Rule 144A/Reg S equity offerings by issuers in various industries in Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Thailand. Karen has been mentioned by independent publications, including Chambers and the Legal 500 which recommended her for her “determination” and “high level of business acumen”.

 

Nikolai Zelenski has led Nordgold’s management team since the Company’s inception in 2007. Previously, he worked for the Russian steel company Severstal and was head of Severstal Resources’ gold division, which subsequently became Nordgold. Earlier, Nikolai covered the mining sector at McKinsey & Company. Nikolai holds a Master of Technical Sciences degree from St. Petersburg State Technical University, a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Texas, and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.