Jon Andrews obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree from the Witwatersrand in 1983. After working at Baragwanath and One Military hospitals, he joined the mining industry as a bursar medical officer with the Gencor Group in 1985. Jon has over 30 years’ experience in clinical practice and management in the industry. He has represented the industry in numerous committees and associations and is a director of Zimplats Private Mines Ltd and the Rand Mutual Assurance and Rand Mutual Life companies.

Stewart Bailey oversees the investor relations programme for AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s largest emerging market gold producer, covering debt and equity investors in the US, South Africa, the UK, Europe and Asia. He is also a key member of AngloGold Ashanti’s capital markets team, which has successfully completed debt issues of more than $3bn since 2010. Stewart also has oversight of AngloGold Ashanti’s communications programme, which includes engagement with financial news media in South Africa, the US and the UK. He is a former financial journalist with Bloomberg LP in New York and Johannesburg.

Eunomix™ is led by Claude Baissac. Claude is a specialist in sustainable development, growth and strategy with over 20 years of practice advising government, industry, and international organisations. His combination of expertise, at the nexus of policy, strategy and research, provides him with a unique perspective on the conditions for sustainable growth in complex societies. His clients have included most international donors, many governments, and blue chip companies. It has been his ambition to serve as a bridge between these sectors of society: 
One of the key thrusts of his career has been the problem of diversification and industrialisation in Africa, and its impact on the crucial need for employment creation, poverty alleviation and social capital enhancement. Claude is a recognised expert on special economic zones, and was President of the World Economic Zones Association between 2011 and 2014. Claude has a strong track record on the relationship between natural resources and sustainable growth, given the central role these play on the continent. 
Another key thrust has been his work with corporates as a specialist in country risk management, engaging in scenario planning, strategy and proactive risk management. For several years Claude was involved in corporate integrity management. In 2001 Claude was acting Deputy CEO for Air Afrique, an experience that motivated his subsequent involvement in risk management.
Claude has solid expertise in political economy: the interface between institutions of political power and economic growth. In this field, Claude has extensively worked on the issues of state capacity, fragility and their implication for the economy and business.
Finally, Claude has been committed to solid political, economic and strategy research throughout his career, publishing extensively either in my personal capacity or through Eunomix. He started his career in teaching, first as a substitute teacher in Reunion Island, then as a lecturer at Northern Arizona University.

Mr Roger Baxter is the Chief Executive Officer at the Chamber of Mines of South Africa. He was appointed CEO on 1 May 2015. He sits on the Chamber Council and is responsible for the leadership of the Chamber’s team in terms of implementing the Chamber’s strategic plan.  He was previously Chief Operating Officer and recently returned from a brief stint as the vice-President of Industry Analysis for Rio Tinto Alcan in Canada in 2012. Prior to this Mr Baxter was the Chamber’s Senior Executive responsible for Strategy and Economics and the previous Chief Economist. Mr Baxter has worked in the mining and minerals industry for over 23 years and has been intricately involved in most matters related to the economics of minerals and mining policy. Most of his work has focused on engaging government and other key stakeholders at a strategic level on the economics and competitiveness of the mining and minerals industry, including significant work on the policy issues that affect investment. For example, he played a role as a negotiator of the country’s new mineral laws, the new Royalty Act, the path-finding Mining Charter, the Presidential Framework Agreement, the Stakeholder Declaration and Job Declaration, and so on.

Mr Baxter has also been extensively involved in organised business through Business Unity South Africa (BUSA). He 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 has been involved in an array of policy discussions on promoting investment including leading the business input to the Presidential Growth and Development Summit.

Mr Baxter completed post graduate studies in economics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal before joining the Chamber of Mines. 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, the National Productivity Institute and the Precious Metals and Diamond Regulator. He is currently the Chairman of the World Platinum Investment Council. 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.

John Capel’s background is firmly rooted in the world of work, formally as Secretary of the South African Catholics Bishops Conference- Church and Work Commission, that supported the early trade unions, now largely Cosatu and acted as policy advice and advocacy officer. Before this he worked in National Union of Metal Workers of SA, as organiser, educator, negotiator and quasi legal work in the 80s and early 90s. John’s education and critical thinking was developed in the YCW (Young Christian Workers) movement 1979 to 1986. Nelson Mandela honoured the YCW recognising the role it played in the struggle at it World Council meeting in SA in 1995. John is qualified in labour and human resource development and have written widely on CSR, labour, economic justice and a number of critical development issue. He has been published in over 100 publications and quoted in thousands of others. John is viewed as an expert in CSR and corporate accountability.

Tanya was appointed to Lonmin’s Executive Committee in January 2018 as Executive Vice President: Corporate Strategy, Investor Relations and Corporate Communication. Tanya joined Lonmin as Global Head of Investor Relations in April 2010 from Smith's Corporate Advisory in London where she was Executive Director responsible for Corporate Finance. Prior to that Tanya was Vice President - Corporate Finance at JPMorgan Cazenove, based in London and responsible for South African Corporate clients and London listed mining companies. She has extensive experience in finance and strategy having held senior management positions in a number of companies during her 30-year career in industry, corporate finance and auditing. Tanya, is a Chartered Accountant, having trained with Coopers and Lybrand.

Ian has over 40 years’ experience in the mining industry, having previously been responsible for business development in AngloGold, CEO of both Gold Fields Ltd and AngloCoal between 1999 and 2009, and a former Executive Chairman of Petmin Ltd, a JSE mining company concentrating on bulk commodities 2010 - 2017.  Ian is Chairman of Black Rock World Mining Trust, a Non-Executive Director of Orica Ltd in Australia, a Senior lead Independent Director of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd, a Non-Executive Director at Endeavour Mining Corporation and an advisor to several other companies associated with the natural resources sector. In addition, Ian is Chairman of Conservation 360, a Botswana conservation NGO dealing with anti-poaching initiatives. He is a former Chairman of Leadership for Conservation in Africa 2007 – 2017, a not-for-profit organisation promoting sustainable employment opportunities linked to conservation projects across the African continent.

Henk de Hoop holds an MSc in Mining Engineering from the University of Delft, Netherlands, and he is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He started his career as a Graduate Mining Engineer at Goldfields of South Africa, followed by 2 years at Sasol as an Explosives Engineer. He spent the next 12 years as a Mining Analyst working for several broking firms, covering gold, diamond, coal, diversified, platinum and junior mining stocks. He was rated the top platinum analyst by the Financial Mail from 2005-2007. He joined Rand Merchant Bank in 2008, and is responsible for business development for the bank’s Resources industry clients, covering equity, debt, debt capital markets, M&A, global markets and corporate banking.

Sandra started her career as an academic, lecturing company and tax law at the University of the Free State, before joining Johannesburg Law Firm Brink Cohen le Roux & Roodt. It was here that she became involved in the South African mining industry, working first on the labour side of the business, before moving on to the corporate and commercial end of practice. Sandra has been with Standard Bank for just over ten years and focuses exclusively on African corporate finance transactions in mining and metals.

Anton holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) (Pretoria) and Master of Science (Mineral Exploration), with distinction (Rhodes).  He received the Dreyer Award by the Society for Mining Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (USA) for outstanding achievements in applied economic geology and was the first recipient of the Des Pretorius Memorial Award for outstanding work in economic geology by the Geological Society of South Africa. Anton has had a successful exploration career spanning more than 40 years in industrial minerals, coal, diamonds, base and precious metals, highlighted by discoveries of several world class deposits. In 1973 he commenced his career with Gold Fields of South Africa and in 1987 was a founder member of Pangea Exploration.  While with Pangea he was instrumental in the discoveries of the high grade Rhovan vanadium deposit, the Taaiboschspruit colliery, the Hillendale-Fairbreeze mineral sand deposits and the re-evaluation of the 16 million-ounce Burnstone gold deposit, all in South Africa.  In Tanzania he was responsible for the discovery of several gold deposits such as Tulawaka, Buzwagi and Golden Ridge, with his activities attracting major players into that country.  He was also responsible for the discovery of five titanium-zircon mineral sand deposits along the East African coast including the Corridor Sands ilmenite and Kwale rutile and zircon deposits. Now a director of PanEx Resources, he has generated a number of diamond and base metal projects throughout Africa and has worked on the development of rare earth, niobium and tin deposits. 

Executive Head of Safety and Sustainable Development for Anglo American Kumba Iron ore, Philip has 25 years’ experience in senior leadership roles within global multinational mining organisations. He has successfully worked and implemented programmes in more than 18 countries worldwide and provided safety leadership and mentoring to senior management teams across several geographies.  He has developed risk-based safety management systems to an ISO and ICMM standard; integrated processes into business management ensuring ‘line management’ accountability and commitment and facilitated a cultural change across internationally recognized organisations to move safety from a ‘priority’ to a true core value.  He has also effectively implemented fatal prevention strategies.   He began his career on the gold mines as a learner official in 1981 and was appointed Safety Professional in 1984.  He completed an MBA from Queensland University as well as a BTech degree in Safety Management and various short courses in the SHE world.  He is a member of the Anglo American International Safety Board and is a full member of the Institute of Directors of Southern Africa. He serves as an Executive Director of the Sishen Iron Ore company. He was President of the Institute of Safety Management (IOSM) from 2010 to 2011 and is a registered Safety Professional through IOSM. He is also registered as a Charted Safety professional through the South African Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (SAIOSH). 

On 30 April 2018, Mike Fraser, in his role of Chief Operating Officer, assumed responsibility for the Group’s alumina operations in Australia, and Cerro Matoso in Colombia. He retains the Group’s aluminium operations in South Africa in his portfolio and he is responsible for South Africa Energy Coal. Prior to this, Mike held the role of President and Chief Operating Officer for the Africa region from January 2015.
Before joining South32, Mike was President, Human Resources with BHP. Prior to this he was Asset President of Mozal Aluminium Smelter in Mozambique from 2009 to 2012, having also worked in various roles in BHP’s coal, manganese and aluminium businesses. During his career, Mike held a variety of leadership roles in a large internationally diversified industrial business and has worked in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Mozambique and Australia. Mike holds a Master of Business Leadership and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of South Africa.

Siyabonga Gama is the Group Chief Executive of Transnet SOC Ltd, South Africa’s state-owned freight transport and logistics company. He is responsible for driving the company’s record-breaking infrastructure investment programme of close to R400 billion – the Market Demand Strategy. In light of the 4th industrial revolution, he is also currently driving various initiatives on how to reshape the core of the Transnet business. This includes expanding the Transnet business beyond the borders of South Africa, thereby positioning the company as a leading provider of logistics services in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, he is responsible for galvanising and mobilising his 65 000 colleagues across the company’s ports, rail and pipelines operations towards creating a world-class logistics group.

Before assuming the role of Group Chief Executive, he led Transnet Freight Rail, Transnet’s biggest division in terms of people, profit, investments and assets. He radically transformed the division from yearly losses averaging R21 million in 2005 to a R16.2 billion giant in profit in March 2015, whilst at the same time, placing a heavy emphasis on safety. Mr Gama also served as the first CE of the National Ports Authority, after its unbundling from Portnet, amongst other roles at Transnet.

In addition to various operational and management programmes from the University of Singapore and the City University of New York, he holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He completed the Trium Global MBA under the auspices of the London School of Economics, Stern Business School in New York and HEC Paris. In recognition of his leadership, Mr Gama has received several industry awards. These include honorary lifetime President of the Union of African Railways; and honorary member of the International Association of Ports and Harbours. He was the young business leader of the year in 2004 and received the award of National business leader in 2008.

Terence Goodlace’s mining career commenced in 1977 and has spanned more than 40 years. He spent the majority of this time at Gengold which merged with Gold Fields of South Africa to form Gold Fields Limited in 1998. Terence began as a miner and advanced through the ranks to become Chief Operating Officer in 2008. He gained experience in leading underground and open pit operations in South Africa, Australia, Ghana, Venezuela and Peru. For five years during this time he was responsible for creating, implementing and facilitating the strategic and operational planning processes and associated outcomes for all Group operations. This included executive responsibility for Group Mineral Resource Management, Environmental Management and Sustainable Development. He also spent two years in Corporate Finance.

Terence subsequently spent three years as the Chief Executive Officer of Metorex Limited, which was a debt-challenged, mid-tier, multi-commodity (fluorspar, antimony, gold, copper, cobalt) mining company with operations in South Africa, Zambia and the DRC. He transformed the company to become a focused copper cobalt company that was acquired and de-listed by Jinchuan, a major Chinese nickel mining company.

Terence served on the Impala Platinum Holdings Limited board for six and a half years with two years as an independent non-executive director and four and a half years as the Chief Executive Officer. He is currently an independent non-executive director at Gold Fields Limited, Kumba Iron Ore Limited and AfriTin Mining Limited. In 2017, he was appointed onto the South African Mining Extraction Research, Development and Innovation steering committee which has been set up to advance new mining technologies under the auspices of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

Chris has served as CEO of Anglo American Platinum since September 2012. He was previously CEO of Kumba Iron Ore from 2008 and 2012 and prior to this, served as Anglo American Platinum’s head of operations for joint ventures. Chris has been with the Group for over 25 years, joining Anglo American Platinum where he progressed from shift supervisor to one of the youngest general managers in the company at that time.

May Hermanus was most recently the Executive Director: CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment. Prior to joining the CSIR, Hermanus was the Director and Adjunct-Professor at the Centre for Sustainability in Mining and Industry (CSMI) at Wits University. She was formerly the Chief Inspector of Mines for South Africa, and in that capacity, served as Chairperson of both the Mine Health and Safety Council and the Board of the Mining Qualifications Authority. She is currently on a self-funded sabbatical, working on her PhD and continuing with some Board work and part-time consulting. She is still a Visiting Professor at Wits University.

Mark Heywood is the Executive Director of SECTION27 (which incorporated the AIDS Law Project in 2010). He joined the AIDS Law Project (ALP) in 1994 and in 1998 he was one of the founders of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). He has continued to participate on the TAC Secretariat, National Council and Board of Directors. Mark was elected and served as the deputy chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) in 2007 until 2012. In 2009, he was also appointed as a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on National Health Insurance. Mark has written extensively on HIV, human rights and the law and has been part of the legal teams of the ALP, TAC and SECTION27 that have been involved in major litigation around HIV and other human rights issues in South Africa.

SECTION27 is a public interest law centre that seeks to achieve substantive equality and social justice in South Africa. Guided by the principles and values in the Constitution, SECTION27 uses law, advocacy, legal literacy, research and community mobilisation to achieve access to healthcare services, basic education and sufficient food. Underpinning all of our work is the promotion of the rights to equality and dignity as well as the principles of good governance and accountability. Across our areas of work we are concerned with the duties of both public and private power. SECTION27 was established in 2010, when it incorporated the AIDS Law Project, which for over 15 years had been at the forefront of the civil society response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa. SECTION27 has recently been involved in litigation in the Supreme Court of Appeal challenging the Department of Education’s appeal on the provision of textbooks in Limpopo. For more information: http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/textbook-provision-for-learners-in-south-africa-supreme-court-of-appeal-judgment-in-the-befa-case/

Born in 1957, and schooled in Austria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia, René matriculated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg in 1974, obtained a BSc Hons degree in Geology (Engineering Faculty) from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1979. He worked on the Potgietersrust Platinum feasibility study for Rustenburg Plats in 1980/81 as geologist. He returned to Wits and gained his BSc degree in Mining Engineering in two years in 1982. In 1983 he worked in production at Rustenburg Platinum Mines until 1986.
Achieving 10 years in a row No. 1 Platinum analyst and 4 years in a row No.1 Small and Mid-Cap mining analyst with stockbrokers Anderson Wilson and Partners in 1987, BJM in 1997 and Nedcor Securities in 2002, he became an Investment Banker with Nedbank and Allan Hochreiter (Pty) Ltd., advising various resource companies on mining corporate finance transactions and doing industry reports and valuations of various mining projects in the SADEC region. In 2007, he started Sable Platinum together with James Allan, which was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 2013. In 2014 he established Sieberana Research, providing broker research to Noah Capital Markets, a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, on mining and resources shares.
He remains a member of the South African Institute of Stockbrokers and is a Fellow of the Geological Society, London and of South Africa and a member of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He is the author of all five editions of Mining and Geology for Idiots, the chapter on Platinum in South Africa of the SAIMM monograph publication (1985) and recently completed his MSc through Wits on the Geology of Mt. Everest.

Nicola is a qualified lawyer with almost two decades of experience in the resource sector, advising and representing mining companies on acquisitions and divestments in respect of projects throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. During her time in the profession Nicola was also actively involved in advising on regulatory aspects pertaining to the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act and the Mining Charter.  In 2017, Nicola joined Sibanye-Stillwater’s Business Development team focusing on the legal aspects of acquisitions and disposals related to the Sibanye-Stillwater group, together with policy and regulatory aspects pertaining to the sector.  Nicola is a patron of Women in Mining South Africa and has served as a guest lecturer at the University of Pretoria and at the Mandela Institute, University of Witwatersrand.

André Joubert is a Mining Engineer. He is the Chief Executive of the Ferrous Division of African Rainbow Minerals (ARM). This division is responsible for the operational activities of Assmang, which is a 50/50 joint venture between African Rainbow Minerals and Assore, which are both listed companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. André is the Chairman of the Assmang Exco, The Chairman of the Sakura Board (Smelter in Malaysia) and an Executive Director of Assmang. In this position he is responsible for all operational, legal, strategic and growth related to the division’s Iron Ore mines, its Manganese mines and Manganese smelters. André Joined ARM in August of 2009 as Executive Operations in the Ferrous Division and was appointed to the Chief Executive position in July 2012.

Prior to working at ARM he was the CEO at Hernic Ferrochrome in South Africa for two years and prior to that he worked for Anglo American Corporation for 25 years. André held various senior and executive operational positions within Anglo American’s gold and base metals divisions and also spent some time evaluating and designing mining projects. In total he accumulated 38 years of experience within the mining industry. 

André studied at the University of Potchefstroom and graduated in 1981 with a BSc in Mining Engineering from the University of Pretoria and in 1996 he obtained a MBA at the University of Stellenbosch.

Ms Kerber, BCom, HDipAcc, CA (SA), has recently joined Implats as the chief financial officer and an executive director of the Implats Board. She is an experienced finance executive having served as Senior Vice President, Finance at AngloGold Ashanti Limited, prior to which she spent 11 years at Anglo American Platinum Limited, serving as Head of Financial Accounting for the majority of that period. She has also previously held the position of non-executive director at Rand Mutual Assurance.

Andrew is a senior partner at Deloitte Africa, where he leads the Energy and Resources practice in Africa, the Monitor Deloitte corporate and business unit strategy capability and the CEO programme at the Deloitte Executive Institute. Andrews professional career spans 32 years – 14 in Industry, mainly in general management in industrial companies; and 18 in strategy and operational consulting. Andrew joined Deloitte as a Director following Deloitte’s acquisition of Monitor. He had joined Monitor as a partner, after being a partner and founding member of North Road Consulting. Andrew has led strategy, operational improvement, organization redesign and implementation projects in several industries. Andrew has specific expertise in energy, resources, aviation, logistics and manufacturing. His consulting experience spans operational turnarounds, performance improvement, and strategy development for private, listed and parastatal companies. His strategy expertise spans portfolio strategy, corporate and business unit strategy, growth strategy, and sustainability strategy. Prior to founding North Road Consulting, Andrew enjoyed a successful career at Bain & Company in Johannesburg and London. During this time he led client assignments in various industries, including mining, car rental, utilities, revenue collection, general industry and media.

Boipelo joined Harmony on 1 June 2017 as Chief Financial Officer. She is a chartered accountant (SA) by profession with extensive experience in group financial management and reporting within the mining industry. Her previous roles include that of Chief Financial Officer of Atlatsa Resources Corporation and Financial Manager of Northam Platinum Limited. She served as an independent non-executive director of Trans Hex Group Limited from August 2013 until March 2017 and currently serves as an independent non-executive director on the boards of African Rainbow Capital Proprietary Limited and UBI General Partner Proprietary Limited since 7 June 2018. She also serves as a trustee of the Harmony group environmental trust funds.

Thabi Leoka is an Economist who has worked for various organisations in the financial sector. Thabi started her career as an Economist at Investec Asset Management in South Africa and London. She has also worked as an Emerging Markets Economist at Barclays in London and Head of Economic Research, SA at Standard Bank and the Chief Economist for SA at Renaissance Capital. Thabi was named the Economist of The Year 2017 by ABSIP. She writes for various publication both in South Africa and internationally. Thabi is a budding activist, loves travelling, reading, food and music.

Mosa Mabuza qualified as geologist with a BSc (Hons) and with a PDA in Business. He has extensive exploration experience in multiple regional jurisdictions that span SADC, West Africa and Canada, amongst others. He assumed his official duties in 2006 as Director of Mineral Economics in the erstwhile Department of Minerals and Energy and later became Deputy Director-General of the Mineral Policy (and Investment Promotion) in 2012. During his tenure as an official, he was assigned with the duties of leading the preliminary strategy for sustainable development and meaningful transformation of South Africa’s mining industry with emphasis on competitive growth and transformation as symbolistic reinforcing concepts, the development of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Bill and the assessment of the progress impact on the implementation of the Mining Charter in 2009 and 2015, which respectively based the evidence value proposition for the amendments of the 2010 and 2017 Mining Charter. Mr Mabuza represented the Department of Mineral Resources on the boards of number of science councils and State-Owned Entities, including, albeit not limited to, the Council for Geoscience, Mintek and the South African Diamond and Precious Metals Regulator. In November 2016, Mr Mabuza was deployed to the Council for Geoscience and now serves as CEO (since July 2017). He is currently working with his colleagues to champion the refocused geo-scientific programme that seeks to optimise the development impact, aligned with the national developmental priorities.

Ben joined the Lonmin Board as Chief Executive on 1 July 2013. He is a graduate Mining Engineer from the University of Zimbabwe and has attended various management programmes, including the Accelerated Development Programme from the London Business School, UK and the AMP from GIBS, SA. Ben has extensive mining experience in both underground and surface mining as well as soft and hard rock mining. He also has experience in the energy and logistics industries. Ben was the Chief Executive Officer of Anglo Coal South Africa and the Executive Head responsible for Engineering and Capital Projects at Anglo Platinum. Ben was a Non-Executive Director of Foskor and was a Director of Anglo American South Africa, was Chairman of Richards Bay Coal Terminal and the Eskom 2008 Coal Working Group. He is a Zimbabwean national. He has a BSc (Engineering) (Honours), ADP.

Ms Nelisiwe Magubane holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration and is a registered electrical engineer. She started her career in Eskom. After a stint in the private sector as a consulting electrical engineer, she joined the Department of Minerals and Energy as the Chief Director responsible for the restructuring of the electricity sector, planning and implementation of the electrification programme. She was later appointed as a Deputy Director General responsible for the development of the policies that govern electricity, nuclear and clean energy in South Africa.

She was appointed as Director General of Energy in December 2009 and was responsible, amongst other things, for the development of the Integrated Resource Plan. She subsequently established the Department of Energy.

Ms Magubane is an expert advisor in energy regulation, policy and procurement. She is currently advising the Government of Tanzania on the design of their reverse auctions. She is also working with the Tetratech team in restructuring Tanesco, the Tanzanian electricity utility, as part of Power Africa Transactions and Reform Programme (PATRP).

Ms Magubane’s contract with the Department of Energy ended in November 2014. She has since established Matleng Energy Solutions, a 70%-female owned company that provides energy solutions. She has also been appointed to the Board of State Information Technology Agency (SITA) as a Non–Executive Director, is a member of the Thebe Energy and Resources Advisory Council and a Non-Executive Director for Eskom Holdings. She has been named one of the top 50 most influential figures in the Southern African Power sector by the ESI Africa Magazine.

Peter Major was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 16 May 1955. His family moved to Kellogg, Idaho, the 'silver mining capital of the world' in 1961, where Peter grew up and worked through 1981. Peter graduated from Montana School of Mines in 1981 and came to South Africa in Jan 1982 to work for Harmony Gold Mine. He completed his South African Mine Manager's Certificate, an MBA from UCT and thereafter worked as a consultant and as Marketing & Training Manager for Eimco Mining Machinery SA. Peter began his investment career with Allan Gray in 1989 as a gold mine analyst. He then spent 10 years as mining analyst & fund manager at Nedcor Investment Bank where he won 2 Raging Bull Awards, 1 ‘runner up, and was South Africa’s Top Fund Manager 2 other years. In 2001 as CIO he set up HBD Asset Management with Mark Shuttleworth, with assets of $530m growing to $1.5bn by 2005. In 2006 Peter joined Cadiz where he is Director: Mining, focusing on Private Equity, Capital Raising and M & A activity in the Mining & Resources sector.

Mogale Mashilane joined the Marula team at Implats in 2013 as an engineering manager. In 2015 he was appointed as the General Manager of the mine. Prior to joining the company, Mogale worked for Foskor, where he worked in various managerial roles concluding his journey with this company as the chief operating officer (COO) of their Zirconia Division.  He started his career in mining at AngloGold. Mogale holds a National Higher Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, as well as an Executive Development Programme Diploma and has pursued various other leadership and business studies.

Dzingira Matenga is the Managing Director, Development Assets at ERG Africa. His background is in mineral economics and he has a keen interest in new development assets (greenfield and “stalled brownfields”) across sub-Saharan Africa. His experience includes Project development in countries as diverse as Mali, Senegal, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, DRC and South Africa; Multi-commodity development and innovative funding techniques for greenfield projects; A deep network of logistics, power and human capital enablers for mining projects; Operations improvement work for brownfield projects and “non-traditional” methods of getting new mines into production in order to preserve capital and maximise cash flows for investors. Dzingira is a Chartered Accountant, is a Prince2 Certified Project Manager and is a member of the SA Institute of Directors (IoDSA).

Joseph Mathunjwa  is the founder and Head of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) – one of the most progressive and fast growing trade unions in South Africa’s labour landscape.  Born in Amatikulu, in the northern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Mathunjwa began his career as a laboratory attendant. He then worked as the laboratory assistant at BHP Billiton’s Douglas Colliery in Mpumalanga where he gained popularity among the workforce due to his interests in representing workers. It was at BHP Billiton where Mathunjwa honed and refined his skills for representing the workforce around him by managing to convince management to implement a bonus system for underground mine workers. His interest in trade unions came when he saw people being retrenched without companies making an effort to save their jobs. The first retrenchment that Mathunjwa fought for through the Labour Court was at BHP Billiton in 2005 where he successfully won the case. This paved the way for Mathunjwa to join the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) as a Chair of a local branch of the union. After parting ways with NUM in September 1999, Joseph laid the foundation for the formation of AMCU, which was formally registered in 2001, to address the swelling vein of discontentment among poor, black workers who were seeing little improvement in their lives two decades after apartheid ended. AMCU now makes a difference in the lives of its more than 200,000 members, with the Union enjoying steady growth year-on-year.  

Otsile Matlou is ENSafrica’s Chief Operating Officer, Practice Integration. He is also a Director and Head of the firm’s natural resources and environment department. As COO, Practice Integration, Otsile ensures the seamless delivery of effective solutions for clients across the continent. As Head of the firm’s natural resources and environment department, Otsile’s expertise covers the circle of mining – from exploration, mining and beneficiation to downscaling and closure. His experience ranges from start-up exploration projects to well-established mining projects, and he acts for a wide range of mining companies in all mineral commodity sectors, including the base and precious metals, coal, rare earths, sand and diamonds sectors.  Otsile’s expertise includes advising on mining aspects of equity and asset acquisitions, disposals and corporate restructuring, and black economic empowerment transactions, as well as on distressed mining assets and on royalties in the mining sector. His experience further includes all aspects of regulatory work in the mining and petroleum (upstream) industries, for listed and unlisted senior, mid‑tier and junior companies, as well as for financial institutions with regards to resource-finance projects. Otsile has done mining title and transactional work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. He has also advised on joint ventures in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Zambia. In addition, he has advised the Uganda Chamber of Mines in relation to the Ugandan mineral regulatory framework. Otsile is an instructor for the Black Lawyers Association and is a member of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law section of the International Bar Association. He is also an instructor at the International Law Institute – African Centre for Legal Excellence, where he has trained senior government negotiators and regulators from various African countries in regards to mining contracts, concessions and disputes. Otsile is regularly invited to present papers at conferences and seminars in the field of mining law, and he is widely published.

Bachelor of Accounting Science Degree and qualified Chartered Accountant (SA, England, Wales & Zimbabwe)
Bothwell Mazarura is the Chief Financial Officer at Kumba Iron Ore, a position he held since September 2017. Prior to that he served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director at Wescoal Holdings Limited, since July 2016. He previously held various senior financial roles at Lonmin Plc since 2010 including Group Head of Finance, Head of Treasury and Acting Chief Financial Officer. Prior to Lonmin Plc, he was a Partner at Deloitte & Touche since 2002, where he also spent some time working in the United Kingdom.
Bothwell holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science Degree from the University of South Africa and is an accredited Chartered Accountant in three jurisdictions – England and Wales, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Norman Mbazima joined Kumba Iron Ore, a business unit of Anglo American on 1 September 2012. Previously he was the CEO of Thermal Coal and during this time has overseen the business unit’s record operating profit in 2011 combined with an improved safety performance. A Chartered Accountant by profession, Norman began his career in accounting roles at Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines, before spending 17 years with Deloitte & Touche, also in Zambia. He has extensive experience in the Anglo American Group and joined the company in 2001.  His former roles include,  CEO of Scaw Metals, Finance Director and Acting CEO of the platinum business unit as well as CFO of the former Anglo Coal business unit and CFO of Konkola Copper Mines. Norman has had extensive experience in the mining industry, including managing operations, capital raising and managing finances, negotiating transactions, and interfacing with stakeholders including labour, communities, government departments and a wide variety of investors. Norman is on the Anglo American SA Board, a member of the Group Management Committee and has been the Deputy Chairman of Anglo American South Africa since June 2015.

Sandy joined Allan Gray as an investment analyst and economist in October 1991. Previously he was employed by Gold Fields of South Africa Limited in a variety of management positions for 22 years, where much of his experience was focused on investment related activities. His current responsibilities include the management of fixed interest and he is a fund manager for the Allan Gray Bond Fund. He was a director of Allan Gray Limited from 1997 to 2006.

Siki is a freelance financial and current affairs journalist. She is the previous daily anchor of the 'The SAFM Market Update with Moneyweb and the nightly business show 'Moneyline on eNCA' from Monday to Thursday. Siki also hosted eNCA's "The Big Debate". This acclaimed TV and radio personality has also been the 'Sanlam Financial Journalist of the Year - TV' twice, and was included in the 'Mail & Guardian Book of South African Women. She also won the acclaimed 'Telkom ICT Journalist (TV) of the Year' Award'. She’s been listed on YouTube as 'one of the Top 10 African journalists to watch, and her alma mater Rhodes University presented her with the Emerging Old Rhodian award for 2015 in recognition of her role as one of the leading public voices on finance in South African media. She is currently reading for her Masters in Journalism and Media Studies at Wits University. 

Mxolisi Mgojo has been in the mining industry since 2001. Prior to that, his career includes 10 years as a software engineer and 8 years in the finance industry including Societé Generale Investment Banking. Mxolisi has been with Exxaro Resources since its inception in 2006, heading the Base Metals and Industrial Minerals business before being appointed as the Executive Head of Coal in August 2008.  In May 2015 Mxolisi was appointed as CEO Designate and took over the reins from Sipho Nkosi as Chief Executive Officer on 1 April 2016.  Before joining Exxaro, Mxolisi was a founder member of Eyesizwe Coal where he was the Marketing and Logistics Manager.  Mxolisi sits on the boards of Exxaro Resources and Tronox Limited. On 24 May 2017 Mxolisi was elected as the President of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa after serving on the Executive Council of the Chamber since 2015 and the Collieries Committee of the Chamber prior to becoming a member of the Chamber’s Executive Council.  On 27 May 2017, Mxolisi received the Paul Harris Award from the Hatfield Branch of the Rotary Foundation. Mxolisi has a BSc degree in Computer Science (Northeastern University, USA), an Honours degree in Energy Studies (Rand Afrikaans University), a Diploma in International Financial Management and an MBA (Henley Management College, UK).  He has also completed a Societé Generale Investment Banking and Corporate Finance Programme (Kellogg, USA) and an Advanced Management Programme (Wharton).

Paul Miller was recently recruited to the position of Managing Director of CCP 12J Mangers (Pty) Ltd, the management company of CCP 12J Fund Limited.  CCP 12J is a mining-focused venture capital company, established in terms of Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. The DRA Group, a leading mining engineering firm, is the lead technical partner to CCP 12J in respect of engineering (EPC/M) and outsourced operations and maintenance services. DRA is also a principal investor in CCP 12J.  Stockdale Street, a private equity fund manager which advises DRA’s largest shareholder, is a co-founder of CCP 12J. Paul has extensive experience across all areas of investment banking, principally focused on mining in South Africa and on the rest of the continent. He also has operational mining experience having lead a team that financed, developed and/or operated two coal mines between 2007 and 2013.

Themba Mkhwanazi was appointed CEO of Kumba Iron Ore in September 2016. Prior to that, he held the position of CEO for Anglo American’s Thermal Coal business in South Africa. He has extensive experience in the resources industry, including 18 years in his native South Africa, as well as in the USA and Australia. Themba was a Managing Director of Huntsman Tioxide in South Africa until 2007 when he was appointed COO of Richards Bay Minerals, a joint venture between Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. In 2011, Themba was seconded to Rio Tinto’s Australian coal business, before taking up the role of Regional General Manager for the Americas in 2012. Themba holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Chemical Engineering.

Lucas Moalusi is a recognized mining lawyer in South Africa. An expert in traditional leadership legislation, he is also highly skilled in the law applicable to traditional communities’ structures, and the structuring of Black Economic Empowerment transactions. Consistently recognized by Legal 500 for his expertise in mining, Lucas has particular experience in advising mining companies and traditional communities in their governance structures, including corporatization of their affairs. As a trusted advisor, he is there every step of the way with clients acting for both mining companies, surface rights holders and traditional communities.

Fortune is a mining entrepreneur with a strong exploration and development track record, Fortune has played a leading role in the origination, establishment and project development of several junior mining companies in Africa including New Kush Exploration and Mining (Gold in South Sudan), AfriTin Mining (Tin), Bushveld Resources Limited (Iron Ore), New Horizon Minerals (Iron Ore), Bushveld Platinum Limited (PGMs) and Eagle Resources Limited (Uranium). As Chief Executive Officer of Bushveld Minerals since its inception, he also serves as a Non-Executive Director of ASX-listed Lemur Resources Limited.

Having obtained a BSc and BSc Honours degrees from the University of Zululand, Mandisa started her career as a Geologist. She later moved on to join the law enforcement agency of government focusing on regulatory and legislative compliance in accordance with the Water and Environmental Acts in coal mines, municipalities and farming operations in the Natal Midlands. She then received an opportunity to head a Directorate of Environmental Protection in the central region of the Eastern Cape government.

She then joined the Transnet Ports Authority as an Environmental Planning Manager for the ports of Port Elizabeth, East London and Mossel Bay and within a period of two years, she was given an opportunity to lead the entire environmental department nationally. She then ventured into heading the risk management function of the Ports Authority, adding to her scope, health and safety, business continuity management, Insurance and quality management. Mandisa was also given a new challenge to lead the implementation and embed enterprise risk management at the Ports Authority. She later joined the Rail Division of Transnet to lead the enterprise risk management department which included corporate governance and integrated management systems.

Mandisa was given a challenge to lead one of the six businesses of the Rail Division, namely Mineral Mining and Chrome.  She grew the business by 19% over a period of two years. For the last year she has been leading the biggest business of the Rail division, namely Coal, and finished the previous financial year with a new record of 77 million tons/year railed to Richards Bay Coal Terminal.

Having completed her Masters Degree in Environmental Management from North West University, she pursued various leadership training programmes, including the Global Executive Development Programme with GIBS, Lean and Six Sigma with General Electric, Breakthrough for Senior Executives with IMD, Strategic Management Programme with HEC Paris and she is currently finalising her studies towards a Masters Degree in Business Leadership from UNISA.

Abigail Mukhuba qualified as a Chartered Accountant (SA) in 2005 and has over 16 years working experience in the financial reporting and tax specialist environment in both the automotive and mining industries. Abigail started her career at BMW SA. In 2009, she commenced her career in the mining industry at TSA Sands, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Exxaro Resources Limited. She joined Exxaro in 2010 as the Group Manager: Financial Reporting responsible for Financial Reporting as well as Investor Relations. Abigail joined African Rainbow Minerals Limited in 2016 as the Chief Financial Officer and in 2017 she was appointed as ARM's Financial Director.

Nico Muller holds a BSc Mining Engineering degree from the University of Pretoria and has a 28-year mining career across a range of commodities, including platinum. He has a proven track record as a successful operator and is a highly-rated leader and strategic thinker. Nico was appointed to the board of Implats as both Chief Executive Officer and an Executive Director in April 2017. Prior to this he served as Executive Vice-President of Gold Fields’ South African operations (South Deep) for three years, where he fulfilled a pivotal role in re-energising and repositioning the mine for a sustainable future. He also served as the Chief Operating Officer at Royal Bafokeng Platinum, and in various other high-level positions at Anglovaal, African Rainbow Minerals, Avgold and De Beers.

Deshnee Naidoo joined Vedanta Resources (VR) in 2014 and became CEO of Vedanta Zinc International (VZI) and Copper Mines of Tasmania (CMT) in February 2015. She was appointed Chief Executive Officer – African Base Metals in May 2018 (with inclusion of the position of CEO: Konkola Copper Mines (KCM)). Ms Naidoo was awarded the JCI/Anglo Platinum bursary in 1994 to study for a BSc (Chemical Engineering) degree at the University of Natal (Durban), and moved on to a 15-year career within the Anglo group after graduating in 1998. She also holds Certification in Finance and Accounting from University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Ms Naidoo has over 20 years of significant and extensive experience in the natural resources industry including platinum, thermal coal, manganese and zinc. Most notably, she managed two commodities (thermal coal and manganese) across three geographies (South Africa, South America and Australia) for Anglo American as Thermal Coal CFO.

Sipho Nkosi’s professional journey has enabled him to develop vast experience in the energy and coal sectors, both locally and internationally.

Sipho has recently retired from Exxaro Resources Ltd having served as its CEO since November 2007. Exxaro was born out of a merger between Kumba’s coal, mineral sands and base metals assets and Eyesizwe Coal, where Sipho was one of the core founders and served at the helm. Preceding this, Sipho was the Country Manager of ABB Alstom Power (SA), having previously worked with Anglo Coal and Ingwe. His four-year stint at Anglo Coal in the International Marketing Division provided the ideal backdrop for him to take on the key portfolio of Marketing Manager responsible for International Coal Marketing at Ingwe. This position involved extensive travel and provided Sipho with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the coal industry worldwide.

The insightful path that his career has traversed has enabled him to play a pivotal role in the broader mining industry. Sipho is a Past President of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa and has been serving on the Executive Council of the Chamber of Mines since November 2006. Prior to his appointment to Council, he played a meaningful role as a member of the Chamber’s Collieries Committee.

In addition to Sanlam, Sipho continues to serve on numerous Boards of Directors of blue chip companies.

“Today it’s an investment, tomorrow it changes a country.”

Upon reflecting on his impending retirement, this profound ethos instilled a renewed purpose in Sipho – to build an investment company whose first and fundamental premise is to do good and to look for broader societal benefit and long term value. Thus, together with a few like-minded business partners, Talent10 was formed in 2012 under the stewardship of Sipho Nkosi as non-Executive Chairman. With this key developmental philosophy as its foundation, Talent10 strives to create or acquire businesses that have long term sustainability and job creation accelerators as its key tenets.

Education and ongoing learning remains close to his heart. According to Sipho, “Further study after school is not the end of your growth. The pace of growth and change we are experiencing means that by the time you have finished studying, the world would have changed and you will need to reinvent yourself. Keep reading; keep learning”. Sipho holds a BCom (University of Zululand), BCom (Hons) (Econ) (Unisa), MBA (University of Massachusetts, Boston) and a Diploma in Marketing Management (Unisa). In addition to this, Sipho went on to complete the Advanced Management Programme at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Over the years, business at large has bestowed a number of prestigious awards on Sipho in recognition of his ongoing contribution as an astute business leader. After being announced as the Master Entrepreneur of the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Award 2012, Sipho went on to represent South Africa in the Global Awards event hosted in Monte Carlo.

The Afrikaans Handelsinstituut also recognized Sipho with the Tinie Louw Award for outstanding Business Leadership in 2013. The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) presented Sipho with the Brigadier Stokes Memorial Award in 2015, for his substantial contribution to the South African minerals industry over many years as well as for his leadership role in the South African society. At their recent Corporate Dinner celebrating 40 years of changing the transformation landscape, the Black Management Forum honored Sipho with their most coveted Black Excellence Leadership Award.

Sifiso Musa Nkosi is the Executive Chairperson of Ntuthuko Exploration & Mining, a junior mining company currently exploring anthracite coal mining in KwaZulu-Natal. Ntuthuko has mineral rights over various tenements in KwaZulu-Natal. The company currently represents/has relations with various tribal councils in the Ngonyama Trust. Sifiso has 12 years’ experience in the mining industry, having previously served as a board member for Isiphenduko Holdings, a joint venture company with Sephaku Cement. He sits on various boards including YIMSA (Youth in Mining South Africa), a youth mining lobby organization. He is also co-founder of the Junior Miners Forum, an African junior miners chamber with a national footprint representation. He currently serves as a member of the DMR’s Junior Miners Secretariat Committee chaired by Godfrey Oliphant - the Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources. Sifiso is a staunch believer in the South African junior mining sector being a catalyst for transformation into a sunrise industry.  He is a partner of the Coniston insurance product, which is currently the only insurance guarantee product open to mining permit applications. He is also a partner of Rands 2 Cents, the only market training product aimed at surface owners and mining affected communities.  He holds an Information Technology Diploma, a Project Management certification and a Business Analysis qualification. 

Thabisile is an accredited public relations and communication specialist, with 17 years’ experience in the mining industry. Thabisile is the Senior Vice President and Head of Stakeholder Relations for Southern Africa at Sibanye-Stillwater. She has worked in the corporate affairs environment at the University of South Africa, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Commission for Gender Equality and Anglo American Platinum.

In her 22-year career, she has worked in diverse sectors within the communication and stakeholder relations field focusing on among others; reputation management, crisis communication, media relations, strategy development, lobbying and advocacy, community development and fundraising. She has also spent at least 8 years as a part-time lecturer/course facilitator in corporate communications, corporate social responsibility and stakeholder engagement.

She is involved in career mentorship and coaching programmes; convener of a women`s development network, Inspired Connect; is a past President of the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa and is currently a member of the Academic Advisory Board for Strategic Communication at the University of JHB.

Xavier has a MSc in Engineering Geology UMSA; Diploma in Mining and Exploration from the Montan University, Leoben, Austria, Graduate Diploma in Engineering and M. Eng. degree from Wits.
He has been in coal since 1977, established the Geological Survey’s National Coal Database (NCDB); was Genmin IT Exploration Manager and joined the Minerals Bureau, DME in 1995, as Chief Mineral Economist; Coal and Hydrocarbons. He was appointed Coal Senior Analyst, Wood Mackenzie, Southern Africa and since 2009 is consulting privately with XMP Consulting. He promotes South Africa’s coal mining industry within government and industry groups, lectures at Universities as well as companies on coal science, i.e. coal reserves, economics, quality control, marketing and clean coal technologies. He has extensive experience in reserves and resources. His main tasks are optimisation of coal utilisation and marketing, economic empowerment in coal, evaluation of coal reserves, implementation of clean coal technologies (CCTs) and impact of the use of fossil fuels. Xavier belongs to several local and international coal committees and groups involved in coal science and technology.

Dimitri Reading-Picopoulos is an Executive Director in J.P. Morgan’s EMEA Metals & Mining team. He originally joined the UK M&A team of J.P. Morgan Cazenove in August 2007. Dimitri holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and a M.Eng from University College London. He has worked on a wide range of South African and international transactions within the metals and mining space.

Jim Rutherford has more than 25 years of experience in investment banking and investment management, both as an institutional investor and analyst. Between 1997 and 2013, he was a Senior Vice President at Capital Group, one of the world’s largest and longest established investment management companies, with responsibility for investments in the mining & metals industry. Sir John Parker, Chairman of Anglo American, said: “I am delighted to welcome Jim Rutherford to Anglo American’s Board. Jim brings his considerable financial insight from the perspective of the capital markets, combined with his deep strategic understanding of the mining industry. I am sure that Jim’s experience and expertise will bring considerable benefit to our Board.”

Nic worked for the Anglo-American Group of Companies for 26 years from 1979 to 2005, both nationally and internationally, with most of the latter years spent in a senior management role. His last position with Anglo American was as Business Manager of the Anglo Platinum Precious Metals Refiners. Before that he was Vice President of Metallurgy for Konkola Copper Mines and also a Director of Smelterco. Nic then spent 2 years as the Business Line Manager, Minerals and Metals, for Engineering and Projects Company Ltd, (formerly G-LTA Process Engineering), where he started the process concept for the Resin – in – pulp plant design for the Kyelekera project in Malawi and also put together a team that engineered a novel skid mounted acid plant utilizing Outotec technology.

Nic then moved on to Barrick Africa / African Barrick Gold / Acacia, for 9 years in various positions including Director of Operations and Director of Technical Services.

In September 2016 Nic started part time for DRA as a Snr Consultant, and in May 2017 joined DRA full time as the General Manager Optimization. In November 2017 Nicolaas was appointed as Senior Vice President – Technical Services for Minopex, the operating arm of DRA.

Mike Schüssler, owner of Economists dotcoza, an Economic Consultancy, has been extensively quoted in the media over the last two and half decades. Mike’s innovative research on employment and household issues has earned him much praise. He is the most quoted and endorsed economist in South Africa for his insights from Academia to Analysts the world over. His innovative approach has led to new economic measurement indices and management tools such as Transport cost adjustment and logistics indices, the BankservAfrica transaction index and the ABSA SMME Index. Mike has won the Economist of the Year competition twice; one of only three economists to have won this competition more than once in the past twenty five years.

Keith is a geologist with over 20 years of experience in the mining industry in South Africa, Africa and globally.  Keith started his career as a field geologist and progressed over the next 15 years to consulting in geology and mineral project economics in precious and base metals, bulk commodities, special metals and diamond projects on five continents. Keith moved into executive management ten years ago when he became the Managing Director of The MSA Group (MOGS). Keith joined MOGS as the CEO of MOGS Mining Services in 2016 where he is responsible for nine companies within the group which has over 5000 employees and works on over 200 mine sites in South Africa, Africa and globally. Keith remains the Chairman of The MSA Group and he is currently the Acting CEO of Fraser Alexander.

Stanley is the Managing Director of Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Pvt) Ltd (Zimplats), Zimbabwe’s largest PGM mining company. He joined in 2008 as Senior General Manager. He graduated from the University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Mining Engineering in 1991 and joined Union Carbide as a graduate trainee engineer in 1992. He graduated with a Mine Managers Certificate of Competency in 1993 and MBA in 1996. Post learnership he set on a 24 year journey developing his career as a professional mining engineer. He has assumed various senior management and executive management roles at various gold, iron ore, limestone, chrome and platinum mining operations in the country. Major highlights during his career have been development of the local PGM mining sector starting from Mimosa to current Zimplats operations.

Constantino is a Managing director at Accenture and is an Industry X.0 capabilities lead in Latin America. He is dedicated to developing the digital transformation agenda cross-industry with focus in CNR, Energy and Products. Constantino has personal interest in several topics: IT – OT convergence, Remote Operating Centers, Predictive Asset Management and Predictive Production Analytics. Constantino has 30 years of experience in industrial automation and production management. Constantino holds a degree in Electronic Eng. and MSc in Computer Science. He has published 2books and over 30 articles on automation and also serves as a snr. member of the ISA – International Society for Automation.

Dion Shango was appointed as Southern Africa CEO on 1 July 2015, the first black African to be appointed to the role. Prior to his current appointment Dion acted as Deputy CEO and as Leader of PwC’s Energy, Utilities and Mining (EU&M) Group.
Since being admitted to partnership in 2008, Dion has led engagements on complex and multinational businesses and has serviced a number of large listed clients mostly within the mining industry. He has extensive experience reporting under IFRS and of financial reporting in the mining industry.
In addition to his experience in the mining industry, Dion has also enjoyed exposure to other sectors and industries throughout his career, by virtue of being involved in the audits of companies and organisations such as the South African Reserve Bank, Vodacom and MonteCasino.
In recent years, Dion’s client base has included Exxaro Resources Limited, Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited and Sasol Oil, amongst others. 
Dion joined PwC in January 2000 after completing his studies at the University of Pretoria (B Com, Financial Accounting)

Caroline holds a BSc in Mining Engineering from Wits University. She has also completed a Programme for Management Excellence and a PGDip in General Management from GIBS and is currently studying at GIBS for an MBA.  She also holds a Mine Managers Certificate for Fiery Mines. She is a member of the South African Colliery Manager’s Association and the Mine Manager’s Commission of Examiners. Prior to becoming the Vice President of Supply Chain, she has previously held the following positions: Technical Services Manager, Business Planning Manager and Mine Manager.  She is currently based in Secunda. Her areas of expertise include: underground and opencast coal mining, mine technical services, budgeting, forecasting and life of mine, mine planning and projects, business improvement and supply chain.

Peter Steenkamp is Harmony’s chief executive officer and executive director from 1 January 2016. He has some 30 years’ experience in the mining industry, which include his last position as Senior Vice President: Mining of Sasol Mining Proprietary Limited, executive positions at Harmony from 2003 to 2007, African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and Pamodzi Gold. He is a member and past president of the Association of Mine Managers, and a member of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the South African Colliery Managers’ Association.

Heidi’s mining career spans more than 15 years across various areas of the sector from exploration, geology and mining through to equity and sector strategy research. She graduated with an Honours degree in Geology at The University of Port Elizabeth, after which she worked for Anglo Gold Ashanti.  She rose through the ranks working as a Mineral Project Analyst for top consulting firms while completing a Graduate Diploma in Engineering, specializing in Mineral Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Heidi then moved on to work for top asset management companies such as Nedbank Capital (until 2011) and SBG Securities as a Diversified Mining Analyst until 2016.  She is currently a Sector Specialist: Mining, Beneficiation and Energy in the Research and Projects Development team at the Public Investment Corporation.

Bernard is a Partner at To-The-Point Growth Specialists as well as a partner in THINKspiration. He served as non-executive director on the boards of Impala, Zimplats, Eqstra and African Rainbow Minerals Limited. Previous roles include Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Village Main Reef Limited and CEO of Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited. He is the Chairman of the annual Junior Indaba and Joburg Indaba as well as Vice-President of the AHi. He is Chairman and Managing partner of MMC (Manganese Metal Company).

From his beginnings in education to his career in Human Resources, Mike has gained extensive experience in people and business management in BHP and Impala, as well as CEO of Optimum Coal Holdings (prior to it being taken over by Glencore). Mike is the Chairperson and controlling shareholder of the Masimong Group and serves as Chair/Non-Executive Director at the Anchor Group, Rofles Holdings and the Richards Bay Coal Terminal. He is also a past president of the Chamber of Mines and serves on the Council of the Chamber. In keeping with his passion to leave a legacy for the next generation, Mike serves on the board of the University of Johannesburg.

Johan Theron currently holds the position of Group Executive, Corporate Relations at Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats). Johan’s journey with the company commenced in 1996, when he joined Implats as a Technical Manager. Through perseverance and dedication, he quickly moved up the corporate ladder and was promoted to Plant Manager in 1998, Group Consulting Metallurgist in 2005, Group Executive-People in 2008 and Group Executive Corporate Relations in 2013. Prior to joining Implats, Johan was a Senior Metallurgist at Anglo Platinum for three years. Johan Holds a BEng, Engineering from the University of Pretoria.

Paul focuses on the natural resources sector in Sub-Sahara Africa. He graduated with a B(Commerce) Honours (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria and is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst. Paul started his career at KPMG which included working in the KPMG Corporate Finance team based in New York and focused on private equity, information technology and infrastructure and mining focused clients. He started his banking career at Rand Merchant Bank where he spent five years in the Corporate Finance division and was mainly focused on Anglo American and Kumba Iron Ore. Paul joined J.P. Morgan in 2012 and have been involved in transactions for a wide array of clients such as Sibanye Gold, Goldfields, Lonmin, Kumba Iron Ore, Harmony Gold, African Rainbow Minerals, Seplat Petroleum and Indorama Eleme.

Mr Viljoen started out as a lecturer at the University of Pretoria and subsequently joined SARB as an economic analyst. He joined Allan Gray Investment Counsel in 1991 as a portfolio manager and later moved onto Investec Asset Management in 1995. He founded Regarding Capital Management (Pty) Ltd in 2003 and is currently Chairman of RECM. He is also the executive chairman of the listed investment company RAC (Pty) Ltd and alternate director at Transhex, a listed diamond miner. 

Nompumelelo (Mpumi) is an accomplished leader with 17 years of experience in the mining industry. She has acquired a broad range of leadership skills in her previous roles as General Manager of two diamond mine operations, leading a diamond trading business and currently as Deputy CEO of De Beers Consolidated Mines. She has a track record of instilling a high performance culture, achieved through an authentic and passionate leadership style, which aims to bring out the best in people and make a positive impact on society. Her key strengths include leadership, engagement, relationship building, energy, resilience and commerciality. She is passionate about youth and female empowerment and believes that we can achieve significantly more in business and society if we embrace diversity and inclusion. She serves as an executive director on the De Beers Consolidated Mines board and as a non-executive director on the De Beers Sightholder Sales South Africa, the Diamond Trading Company – Botswana and the De Beers Global Sightholder Sales boards. She has also served as an executive director of various external companies including the Black Management Forum and Mintek. She has a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand. She has also completed an Achievers Programme from Macauvlei Learning Academy, an Emerging Leaders Programme from the London Business School and a Leader as Coach programme from Cycan.